Is Jim Beam now considered 'medicine?'

In the last 5 years, Johnny Cash has been on Death's Door so many times, I have a hard time taking it seriously.
I love Johnny Cash, but maybe its time to throw in the towel?

"I shot a man in (oh, shiat, where was it?), just to watch him die..."

so it was a drugs reaction, and not as a reaction to the dixie-chicks being #2 then ?

Bass555

The answer is: Reno.

And Johnny Cash will outlive us all!

He shot old janet Reno, just to watch him die. Or was it French actor Jean Reno?

Reno!

Thanks, reatard

Johnny's roommate at the hospital was some man named Sue.

His stomach felt like a burning ring of fire, you know, where the flames get higher and higher...

Hey! Don't forget that Johnny walks the line...

When Death finally comes for Johnny Cash, Cash is going to punch it repeatedly in the throat, stomp on Death's ghostly nutsack, flip him off, play Folsom Prison Blues, and Suppertime, and then ride a big black train up to heaven.

And then we'll have to listen to Kid Rock bragging about how much he listened to Johnny Cash for the next 5 years.

Johnny Cash Is GOD!!

Hope that works.

Early one morning while making my rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my baby down

yea, what Danho said...

this is sad. i'll drink a fifth of beam for him later:(

Johnny Cash's music is the only country I can stand to
listen to without vomiting.

-Hyatus
"da da da"

Dahno is spot-on.

BTW, my wife had a [i]severe[/i] reaction to pain medicine. We found out the hard way that she can't have codiene based pain relievers. Chills, nausea, hallucinations...she was in a bad way.

But back to Johnny Cash. Man. What an incredible musician, and what a story his life is. It's a crying shame about his Parkinson's; I'd hoped to see him perform some day. Guess I'll have to put my [i]Live From Folsom Prison[/i] LP on the old turntable.

I hope he feels better soon...!

Didn't Johnny give up drinking years and years ago?

No talking shiat about the Man in Black. That makes me grumpy.

And when he dies, there will be no color dark enough to mourn him.

IF any of you Farkers get the chance,

Read his autobiography CASH by Jonny Cash. It is really a great read and he donest talk about god that much, it is mostly about rime and drugs. More of what you want... less of what you dont.

Must have been some schwag weed...

Redveaux: Johnny's been clean & sober for many, many years.

There's a bit of a story about him I love telling (don't know how true this is but there are elements of truth in it): June Carter, when she first got together with him, was bound and determined to make him sober and make him into the person that he had the potential to be. So she put up with a lot of shiat out of him, and kept after him to change his ways.

One of his little hobbies was going out, getting drunk/stoned, and if she gave him any lip, knocking her about. Well, he came home one night, beat the shiat out of her, and went to bed...

She wrapped him up in the sheets nice and securely, and poured water all over him (harder to struggle out of the sheets, especially when half asleep and drunk, you see). She then took a wooden boat paddle and beat the living hell out of him, yelling "How do YOU like it?!"

Allegedly, he never raised his hand to her again.

On another topic, could someone post the "Johnny flippin' the bird" pic? Thanks

I've heard that story too, FlightDeck, except the version I heard was I think a blanket instead of a bedsheet and a baseball bat instead of a boat paddle.

I heard that story about Willy Nelson, except he was sowed inside the sheets by his wife.
And I heard Willie Nelson telling it.

I don't think Cash is afraid of death.

FlightDeack:
I seem to remember that as a Willie Nelson story. I think it was written about in one of Howard Stern's books.

He's all Jesus'ed up and stuff, so I don't think it was booze or anything. He's just getting older. Dern shame.

Always did like The Man In Black.

And is that not the coolest possible nickname EVER??

'd smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and the songs I'd been pickin'
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playin' with a can that he was kicking
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone's fryin' chicken
And it took me back to somethin'
That I'd lost somewhere, somehow along the way.

Chorus:
On a Sunday morning sidewalk
I'm wishing Lord that I was stoned
'Cause there's something in a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone.
And there's nothin' short of dyin'
That's half as lonesome as the sound
Of a sleepin' city sidewalk
And Sunday mornin' comin' down.

Cash: it feels like a "Ring of Fire"

Doctor: no Mr. Cash it's hives
Cash: I was "I Was A Boy Named Sue".
Doctor: ok nurse hes going into delirum! NURSE!

The Grammy-winner was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.


Since when do country stars get into the rock and roll hall of fame?

Eye_Power:

Since they are Johhny Farking Cash.

He's been clean and sober for many many years, but his health is pretty frail, I could see where this would be dead on.

poor guy,
I second the suggestion that his book CASH is a must read. I'm not in any way shape or form a relgious person so that part doesn't appeal to me at all. But even with that he's so honest and heartfelt about it that you have to give him props for standing by his beliefs.

He is also a hell of a storyteller and has had an insane life.

get the book.

CASH is a farking badass.

300,000 people die every year from medical errors: prescription interactions, too much dosage, flat out wrong meds... Johnny Cash is to damn tough to die another statistic!

Cash is my hero!

Johnny Cash is awesome! He's covering Nine Inch Nails for his next album! How l33t is that?

From an old SNL

"Why do you wear black?"

Johnny Cash: "..Because I'm Johnny Cash!"

My favorite Cash story is about the time he drove his truck down the side of a mountain, flipping it three or four times, just to test if he was indestructable.

Fishbulb that pic is my desktop at work. You should see the looks it gets.

Johnny Cash is a farking national treasure.

must be those pre-emptive glaucoma treatments that he and Willy Nelson do.

Howlingfrog:
Great song, but Kris Kristofferson wrote that one. Cash has written a few, and helped make Shel Silverstein famous, but a lot of his stuff was written by others.
Doesn't matter. He can still make them his own.

And as far as The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame:
He has placed 48 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop charts, about the same number as the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys.
He has tallied more Pop hit singles than Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson (including his Jackson 5 hits), the Four Seasons, David Bowie, the Supremes, Elton John, Billy Joel, Kenny Rogers, the combined totals of Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon and Simon & Garfunkel, Martin Gaye, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, Kool & the Gang, Linda Ronstadt. Diana Ross, the combined total of all of the Osmond Family, Jerry Lee Lewis and the combined total of Lionel Richie and the Commodores.
People forget just how hot Johnny Cash was, when his sales career was at its zenith. In the fall of 1969, Johnny Cash was the hottest act in the world, selling around 250,000 albums per month of his Folsom Prison and San Quinten albums. At that time, he was even outselling the Beatles.
He is one of the very few people in the history of music to sell more than 50 million records.


I'd say he qualifies.


And while looking this up, I realized that today is the anniversary of Stevie Ray Vaughn's death. Cold Shot is blaring as I type this.

Pigeonstopper:

I think that comparing the Dixie Chicks to the Backstreet Boys is crazy. The Backstreet Boys are a record company creation who were built to fatten the wallets of their corporate masters, while The Dixie Chicks are a talented band of musicians who write their own music and jam like nobody's businness. But that's just my opinion.

I would actually say that the Backstreet Boys are more comparable to the Beatles than the Chicks.

[DUCKS]

Right on Ragingleonard... I live in Austin and I hate country music but I dig the Chicks and Johnny.

Top 40 music in any category stinks be it country, rock, pop, hip-hop...

Johnny will truly outlive us all.

Interesting to read this right as I am listening to "Cocaine Blues".

RagingLeonard, the Beatles wrote all their stuff too. Well, most of it anyway.

Even if I think a group sucks, I still admire them if they write their own stuff. Unless that sucks too.

I'm no Beatles fan, in fact I think that they are the most overrated band in the history of recorded music, but I know how everyone else in the free world loves them so I don't want to start a war.

What I meant by comparing the Beatles to the Backstreet Boys is that the Beatles paved the way for the commercial sucess of boy bands. There would be no Backstreet Boys if there had not been a Beatles before them to lay the marketing groundwork.

I think the Beatles started as a cover band, no? They broke free of their manager, ate a boatload of mind-altering substances and created some original music.
I know that I will probably be killed for saying this, but I think that Yoko Ono was the best thing to happen to the band as she helped release John Lennon from the cage he was in, thus allowing his creativity to soar.

In a fight Johnny Cash would kick the Beatles collective asses including Yoky. Oh yeah he can out write and out sing them too(Yoky counts as a handicap in the song dept).

The only guy who might put up a fight is Stompin' Tom or K.D. Lang. But Johnny still out writes them all.

Anyone have that Cash middle finger picture in a larger format? I love Cash, and that pic is the ultimate.

Johnny_Canuck:
Hell yeah! JC is the man! Paul McCartny would tremble in his presence.