I farkin love this song.

Hey subby. I'll be online for another 30 minutes or so. How about finding "Hurt" and sub it? I too lazy to do eet meself, heh.

I don't even like country music, but Johnny was an American original, and a class act.

mr_a: I don't even like country music, but Johnny was an American original, and a class act.

Same here on the country, but Cash was the man. I mean, how bad-ass is it to have open-heart surgery and NOT take painkillers afterwards (because he was a recovering addict)?

lantawa: Hey subby. I'll be online for another 30 minutes or so. How about finding "Hurt" and sub it? I too lazy to do eet meself, heh.


Mr. (or Ms.) Subby did submit Hurt a few links up, and it sent goosebumps up an' down me spine and all over me arms. Most excellent. An thank you again.

How many performers before or since would have the balls to do a song like this one in a prison?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgja26eNeY

I was always partial to this one.

That TAco Bell commercial he did was a farkin JAM!!

Fun Fact: that song was written by Shel Silverstein.

Only 77? Damn.

/Loves some Cash.

Tom_Slick: I was always partial to this one.

Same, it's the song that basically turned me on to Cash. My dad had a tape of his, I didn't care for it at first but it certainly grew on me.

NOW YOU GONNA DIE!!!!

Here's the est way to tell this is one of the GREAT songs: I just had my office buddy, he's 6'4", 270 pounds, black guy, really really loves all kinds of rap, listen to this - he farking loved it - LOLed at least 6 times.

Shel was one seriously clever song writer.

Cash was my first music act I became a fan of. I remember being a kid and confiscating all my Dad's Johnny Cash albums, yes the big vinyl things you played on a turntable, you kids can google that, and playing them constantly.

I listened to this years ago when my dad and I were driving to church. We laughed so hard at it, especially at "I'm the son of a biatch that named you Sue," though that might have to do with the fact that the radio station bleeped out "son of a biatch," which made it sound even dirtier.

lantawa: lantawa: Hey subby. I'll be online for another 30 minutes or so. How about finding "Hurt" and sub it? I too lazy to do eet meself, heh.


Mr. (or Ms.) Subby did submit Hurt a few links up, and it sent goosebumps up an' down me spine and all over me arms. Most excellent. An thank you again.

I've always loved that song, Cash really brought some personal depth to it.

If my dad had his way my name would've been Suyvern (look it up) just so my nickname would be, "Sue".

/Never would have forgiven him for that.

I think that was the first song I ever learned all the words to.

vernonFL
Fun Fact: that song was written by Shel Silverstein.

Funner Fact: He wrote a follow-up:

(Okay now years ago I wrote a song called A Boy Named Sue and that was okay
And everything except then I started to think about it and I thought
It is unfair I am looking at the whole thing from the poor kid's point of view
And as I get more older and more fatherly
I begin to look at things from an old man's point of view
So I decided to give the old man equal time okay here we go)

Yeah I lef' home when the kid was three and it sure felt good to be fancy free
Tho I knew it wasn't quite the fatherly thing to do
But that kid kept screamin' and throwin' up and pissin' in his pants til I had enough
So just for revenge I went and named him Sue
Yeah it was Gatlinberg in mid July I was gettin' drunk but gettin' by
Gettin' old and goin' from bad to worse
When thru the door with an awful scream comes the ugliest queen I've ever seen
He says my name is Sue how do you do then he hits me with his purse

Now this ain't the way he tells the tale but he scratched my face with his fingernails
And then he bit my thumb and kicked me with his high-heeled shoe
So I hit him in the nose and he started to cry and he threw some perfume in my eye
And it sure ain't easy fightin' with a boy named Sue

So I hit him in the head with a caned-back chair
And he screamed hey dad you mussed my hair
And he hit me in the navel and knocked out a piece of my lint
He was spittin' blood I was spittin' teeth
And we crashed through the wall and out into the street
A kickin and gougin' in the mud and the blood and the creme de menth

Then out of his garter he pulls a gun I'm about to get shot by my very own son
He's screamin' bout Sigmond Freud and lookin' grim uh
So I thought fast and I told him some stuff
How I named him Sue just to make him tough
And I guess he bought it 'cause now I'm livin' with him
Yeah he cooks and sews and cleans up the place he cuts my hair and shaves my face
And irons my shirts better than a daughter could do
And on the nights that I can't score well I can't tell you anymore
Sure is a joy to have a boy named Sue yeah a son is fun
But it's a joy to have a boy named Sue

vernonFL: Fun Fact: that song was written by Shel Silverstein.

Well I'll be darned(^). My love for this song has just skyrocketed.

mofomisfit: Funner Fact: He wrote a follow-up:

Did not know that. Neat.

I'll have to remember to blast some Johnny Cash tonight at work in memory.. of course on any given night at work Johnny Cash is usually in the CD player anyway.

I have a six and eleven year old that request this song and other Cash all the time. They also like Willie..the 6 year old girl swears she will marry him one day. No huge fan of country but the music those two wrote and played is Americana at it's best.

Side note..is it just me or do the men back then just look cool? Everyone looks farkin' cool. The prisoners looked cooler than most dudes I know in this day and age, myself included. Once you get a little smell'um in your hair you'll always feel better.

lantawa: Hey subby. I'll be online for another 30 minutes or so. How about finding "Hurt" and sub it? I too lazy to do eet meself, heh.

Fine, I'll do it. Link (new window)

Cash's Hurt is an incredibly moving song. He has done some great covers of some artists that you would not expect and he does them all very well.

Personal Jesus - Link (new window)

Rusty Cage - Link (new window)
Chris Cornell talking about Cash's cover - Link (new window)

One - Link (new window) One is one of U2's more recent songs that I like and Cash blows it away.

Cappy, yer links are broke.

I can't remember who wrote it and I am too lazy to look it up:

A Sioux named Boy?

To all of the "country haters" who can dig on Johnny: check out Waylon Jennings' "Honky Tonk Heroes". I was definitely a country hater until I got turned on to this. It's just plain good music.

We'd better crank up the WABAC machine for this one, Mr. Peabody: Cash & the Tennessee Two on Tex Ritter's show doing Get Rhythm.

I'm no country hater, but it's not my favorite genre. On the other hand, Johnny Cash's voice just scares the hell out of me...in a good way. I swear, he could have sung Row Your Boat and it would have been the most powerful damn song...

And Philbigtime, you're spot on about Waylon (new window). Maybe it's the old guys, I dunno...

Willy Nelson, Grave Digger

WHAT? Nobody agrees with me that this is his best song ever?

Link (new window)

WhiteCrane: Willy Nelson, Grave Digger

Crash Craddock - Smoke that Cigarette.

I can't wait until the submission "Johnny Cash would have been 143 today. Here's "Hurt" which was the last song he wrote" shows up.

I hope I'm alive to see it.

I always liked Cash's Desperado cover:

Cowboy Monkey Version

hardercase: And Philbigtime, you're spot on about Waylon (new window). Maybe it's the old guys, I dunno...

Sweet! Thanks for the link. Oddly enough, I think I must have a remastered version of that song, because everything is the same except for the vocal track and the mix. And maybe the drum track.

Anyway, that's just the title song from that album. Other good selections from that album include "Willy the Wandering Gypsy", "Omaha", "Ain't no God in Mexico", and "Black Rose". Actually, every song on that album is really good, but those are the standout tracks to me.

devilskware: WHAT? Nobody agrees with me that this is his best song ever?

Link (new window)

Oh... my... God... I never knew.

I can't listen to Hurt while drunk. I literally get misty and my voice gets all crackly.

Bob Dolemite: I can't wait until the submission "Johnny Cash would have been 143 today. Here's "Hurt" which was the last song he wrote" shows up.

I hope I'm alive to see it.

Except he didn't.

Yodacat: Except he didn't.


You're a sharp one, you are.

It's like a badge of honor for some--"Country sucks but I love Cash". It's the musical equivalent of "I'm too cool to own a TV". And of all the great Cash songs that could've been posted on his b'day...this one?

John Buck 41
And of all the great Cash songs that could've been posted on his b'day...this one?

I agree. Its a gimmick song. The only time i wanted to listen to it, straight thru was the first time... to see how the story turned out...

i like this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWYrzBuRbEM

also this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhtcaRRngcw

John Buck 41: It's like a badge of honor for some--"Country sucks but I love Cash". It's the musical equivalent of "I'm too cool to own a TV".

How so? I take it as people saying Cash's awesomeness trumps all (which it does).

i know this song is cliche but damnit if it doesn't ever let up. always been my favorite (new window)

I found this interview with Trent Reznor about Cash singing his song. Very interesting.

Link