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Feb. 4th, 2006 11:26 pm
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themidnightgirl"Mum...There's a man on the television and he's just finished singing about a ring of fire, and now he's singing a song about a cowboy..."
"Oh. That's Johnny Cash."
I can still remember very clearly hearing Johnny Cash sing for the first time. There was something that instantly caught me, whether it was the catchy boom-chicka rhythm, the man-in-black image or the distinctive voice. I can't have been more than eight or nine years old, and it was some kind of TV special, probably shoved on to replace something that had fallen through.
A couple of days later, Mum took me to buy a Johnny Cash album - The Very Best of Johnny Cash. Strangely, this album didn't feature "I Walk The Line" or "Boy Named Sue", but it did have "Ring of Fire" and "Ghost Riders In the Sky". I played it over and over on the Music Centre in my bedroom. When I went to university ten years later, it was one of the four albums I taped to take with me.
Strangely, my love for that album never translated into buying more Cash. Sure, I picked up a couple of tracks on compilations, but the next JC album I bought was "Live at San Quentin" just before Christmas this year. I guess there were always more urgent albums to buy, and I could always listen to that tape.
It's difficult to categorise what made Johnny Cash so special. Nobody else has ever sounded like him. Willie, Waylon, Hank, Garth, George Jones... nobody gave you the song as straight as Cash did, or with as much conviction.
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taimatsu and I went to see "Walk The Line" this evening. It's difficult for me to know what someone who didn't like the music would think of it - unsurprisingly, there's quite a lot of it in the film. I found it absorbing and Joaquin Phoenix utterly magnetic. And it took me back to that evening, when a man all dressed in black sung a song about a cowboy.
Just before he died, John had a resurgence of popularity, largely around his cover of "Hurt". For me, the point at which I realised he was saying goodbye was on the only song he ever recorded with his daughter Roseanne, in 1997 - September When It Comes.
I cannot move a mountain now
I can no longer run
I cannot be who I was then
in a way I never was
"Oh. That's Johnny Cash."
I can still remember very clearly hearing Johnny Cash sing for the first time. There was something that instantly caught me, whether it was the catchy boom-chicka rhythm, the man-in-black image or the distinctive voice. I can't have been more than eight or nine years old, and it was some kind of TV special, probably shoved on to replace something that had fallen through.
A couple of days later, Mum took me to buy a Johnny Cash album - The Very Best of Johnny Cash. Strangely, this album didn't feature "I Walk The Line" or "Boy Named Sue", but it did have "Ring of Fire" and "Ghost Riders In the Sky". I played it over and over on the Music Centre in my bedroom. When I went to university ten years later, it was one of the four albums I taped to take with me.
Strangely, my love for that album never translated into buying more Cash. Sure, I picked up a couple of tracks on compilations, but the next JC album I bought was "Live at San Quentin" just before Christmas this year. I guess there were always more urgent albums to buy, and I could always listen to that tape.
It's difficult to categorise what made Johnny Cash so special. Nobody else has ever sounded like him. Willie, Waylon, Hank, Garth, George Jones... nobody gave you the song as straight as Cash did, or with as much conviction.
taimatsu and I went to see "Walk The Line" this evening. It's difficult for me to know what someone who didn't like the music would think of it - unsurprisingly, there's quite a lot of it in the film. I found it absorbing and Joaquin Phoenix utterly magnetic. And it took me back to that evening, when a man all dressed in black sung a song about a cowboy.Just before he died, John had a resurgence of popularity, largely around his cover of "Hurt". For me, the point at which I realised he was saying goodbye was on the only song he ever recorded with his daughter Roseanne, in 1997 - September When It Comes.
I cannot move a mountain now
I can no longer run
I cannot be who I was then
in a way I never was
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Felt the need to tell you that in general, since I've been having a more in-depth listen to it lately, and that the first opportunity is a music-related post seems vaguely coincidental.
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I'm going to see Walk the Line as soon as I can.
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