Not just June Carter in Jackson, but everyone is hotter than a pepper sprout right now for Johnny Cash, what with the Walk the Line biopic opening this weekend. I for one have Johnny on the brain. Which reminds me of a small crossing of the icons I'd forgotten.
Johnny Cash lent his voice to The Simpsons episode 3F24 "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Homer" or "The Mysterious Voyage of Homer" which originally aired January 5, 1997. Homer eats some chili peppers so hot that he has hallucinatory visions like an Indian shaman/Jim Morrison thing. In his vision, he meets a talking coyote that sends him on a spiritual quest. Naturally, Johnny Cash was the voice of the spirit coyote. Here he is:
JUNE CARTER AND JOHNNY CASH
CARTER/CASH PICTURES
WALK THE LINE REVIEW
Article comments
1 - Tan The Man
Back when the Simpsons was good...
2 - gypsyman
"back when the Simpsons were good"
and Johnny was God, or at least the second coming of Hank. Willie and Kris and Waylon rode shotgun and they wandered for twenty two years in the desert and came back to be baptised in the creek to a heavenly choir of angels composed of Emilylou Harris, June Carter, Allsion Krauss, Iris Demont, and Dolly Parton.
All was good in the world.
beware the Anti Hank now appearing at Walmarts everywhere.
Brother Gypsyman
3 - Al Barger
The Gypsyman waxes poetic. Good show.
Being of a perhaps more evil and secular mindset myself, when you start talking about the heavenly choir at the creek, I naturally think of the sirens in O Brothers ready to turn poor Pete into a frog.
4 - visualgirl
More like a Carlos Castenega-like vision in the desert; really great episode!