I've Just Discovered Johnny Cash

Posted by: smu on 08 June 2007

About a month ago i bought two dvd's for a tenner. One was Kingdom of Heaven and the other was Walk the Line. Walk the Line blew me away! i connected to alot of things in his life. I lost an 11 year old brother to cancer when i was 4 and a half,my father is an angry drunk. At the moment i'm waiting to see a shrink and i'm fighting alcohol and perscription drug addicton. But i have my own June Carter in my partner Joanne who is litterally saving my life. The movie inspired me to buy Johnny Cash live in San Quentin and its brilliant! I once believed in god,i then hated god,then i classed myself as a Jedi and didn't think there was a god,just good and evil in the world and i as a Jedi was for good. Now Joanne who is a christian,and Johnny Cash have me rethinking my faith.

Isn't it AMAZING how music can touch ones life and the power that music has ?

kind regards, smu.
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by ryan_d
Smu, you really should try to get the last 5 records he did. He recorded them for Amerrican Recordings with Rick Rubin producing and they are stunning. He does some very strange covers, such as Soundgardens 'Rusty Cage', U2's 'One' and probably most famous Nine Inch Nails 'Hurt', but they are amazing. Really worth getting, and I didn't think i would like them but once I heard one of them i had to get all 5. And you cvan get them on vinyl too, which is great.

All the best

Ryan
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by smu
Thanks for the tip mate. I've just ordered Alison Krauss Live sacd. Can't wait for it to come. I've only started down the country route. I'm ususally a rocker,hard and soft!
Am i getting old ! !
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by Diccus62
I too have my own June Carter-Cash and I'm very lucky. Ryan is right about the Rubin produced albums.

Good luck with your fight with drink and drugs. Music is very powerful and can be therapeutic in it's own right.

Regards

Diccus Smile
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by Mr Underhill
smu,

I remember listening to JC, Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazelwood and a host of others when growing up in the late '60s and 70s. I loved the music as an eight year old and still do - I think good music, of any style, just communicates.

I too watched 'Walk the Line' a couple of weeks ago and I agree - very powerful and full of great music that was, for me, redolent with powerful memories.

Martin
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by ryan_d
Smu,
I obviously didn't read your post fully to realise the extent of your connection and affinity to his life. I hope things improve, but if you need advice from an independent source, then email me, as I'm involved in that profession, and would like to help if I could.

Otherwise just enjoy tyhe music.

All the best

Ryan
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by ryan_d
Oh and in answer to your question....no you're not getting old, your tastes are just broadening Big Grin . Tis happenned to me after I bought a decent hifi. I think you can more appreciate other forms of music when you have more of an understanding of what they are trying to do, because you can HEAR it due to the hifi.

Long may it continue.......I'm into probably similar stuff to you but my taste is changing, not so much away from what I normally listen to, but incorporating other genres of music. And I'm really enjoying it.......and so are Amazon Big Grin

Ryan
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by Chillkram
quote:
Originally posted by ryan_d:

Tis happenned to me after I bought a decent hifi. I think you can more appreciate other forms of music when you have more of an understanding of what they are trying to do, because you can HEAR it due to the hifi.
Big Grin


This is one of the advantages of this 'hobby' and what really makes it enjoyable. I would never have listened to some of the music I do without the benefit of a decent hi-fi. And I, too, love the JC.


Mark
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly
I defy anyone to watch this video and not find a tear in their eye.
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by ryan_d
Mark,
it just defines that at the end of the day it is about the music! I'm sure there are some out there who are more interested in the tech stuff and they probably have £***** hifi's and only a couple of hundred records or cd's.

I'm more about the music adn I'm well aware of the fact that the better your hifi then the more enjoyable it can become, but if you're more worried about saving money for THAT next upgrade rather than buying music then thats sad in my book.

All the best

Ryan
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by ryan_d
That was not meant to sound critical of people on here.....I'm also very aware that there are many many people on here who are massive music fan foremost to anything else.

Ryan
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by Chillkram
quote:
Originally posted by ryan_d:
Mark,
it just defines that at the end of the day it is about the music!


Absolutely right, Ryan.

Mark
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by ryan_d
Mike,I've got the records but had never seen the video.....and you're right.

Ryan
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by Chillkram
quote:
Originally posted by mike lacey:
I defy anyone to watch this video and not find a tear in their eye.


Beautiful.
Posted on: 08 June 2007 by JWM
I love this.
Posted on: 09 June 2007 by Diccus62
quote:
Originally posted by mike lacey:
I defy anyone to watch this video and not find a tear in their eye.


It's my favourite video and yes its sad. So much talent in both of them at the end of their powers, but still celebrating it. The editing, wow.

Diccus
Posted on: 09 June 2007 by smu
quote:
Originally posted by mike lacey:
I defy anyone to watch this video and not find a tear in their eye.


BEAUTIFUL....
Posted on: 09 June 2007 by smu
I just ordered,Ring Of Fire,The Legend Johnny Cash,for starters and take it from there. It got great rev's and has all the hits spanning his whole carrer.

Now i'm off to listen to the new Arctic Monkeys disc Big Grin
Posted on: 09 June 2007 by Chris Kelly
Good luck SMU. Take it one day at a time.

Mike, thanks for the video link. You were spot on. It's quite changed my mood for this warm day!
Posted on: 09 June 2007 by ryan_d
Chris,
I suggest you pour yourself a nice cold beer and put on something like Jack Johnson or Gomez to brighen your mood.....thats perfect music for chilling to on a day like this.

Much as that video is amazing...its not exactly a happy song or vid.

Ryan
Posted on: 09 June 2007 by Chris Kelly
Ryan
Beer not an option for me. Been where smu is. Very happy in sobriety but still able to get extremely emotional - just not tired along with it! As for putting music on - my entire set up is in pieces at the moment. had to dismantle it for carpet fitters and not yet had a spare few hourse to put the Fraim back together, reposition the six black boxes and figure which cable goes where. That is tomorrow morning's fun job!
Posted on: 09 June 2007 by Chris Kelly
At the least the NacA5 is white! I know where that goes!
Posted on: 09 June 2007 by ryan_d
God, don't envy you mate! With jobs like that you need music on.......I'd be very grumpy!

Have a cold squash instead then....and buy a tivoli Big Grin (dab radio....one of the better ones.)

Ryan
Posted on: 10 June 2007 by smu
quote:
Originally posted by Chris Kelly:
Ryan
Beer not an option for me. Been where smu is. Very happy in sobriety but still able to get extremely emotional - just not tired along with it! As for putting music on - my entire set up is in pieces at the moment. had to dismantle it for carpet fitters and not yet had a spare few hourse to put the Fraim back together, reposition the six black boxes and figure which cable goes where. That is tomorrow morning's fun job!




Fresh coffee is good and in the evenings instead of wine or beer,i'm on diet Eek7up mixed with Tropicana...on the rocks of course !
But the most important thing is, the music sounds just as good
Posted on: 10 June 2007 by ryan_d
Munch,
they are as follows in order of release:
Unchained
American Recordings
Solitary Man: American III
The Man Comes Around
A Hundred Highways: American V

All stunning, although I think 2 and 3 are the best. 4 has the cover of Hurt on it.

Hope this helps

Ryan
Posted on: 11 June 2007 by Chumpy
I too in last few years re-discovered Johnny Cash, and some of it is great even not on Naim stuff. Too much of it (and there is a lot) is probably not a good thing.