You hate to give up such a legend. It's especially unfortunate for us in that he's done some of his best work over the last 10 years in the American Recordings albums. We could have used another half dozen albums like them. I'd probably pick the first one of these as his greatest album ever.
Really we can't bitch, though. He left us a heller legacy, and even in fact a whole bunch of unreleased recordings with Rubin in the can, already scheduled for release as a box set.
With his passing, the whole revolutionary Sun Records crew has gone, all but one. Who would have thunk that Jerry Lee Lewis would be the last man standing?
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1 - Frank Parks
I first saw Johnny Cash at the age of nine at the Fabulous Forum in L.A. in 1969. The opening act was a joyous Statler Brothers. It is my first concert and forms an indelible memory.
Johnny Cash - in his life and his music - epitomized all that is true about freedom and social responsibility.
Whether his songs were about Prison, Vietnam, God, or building a car out of 'borrowed' parts from work, the Man was sincere - and sincerely the greatest figure in Country Music since Hank Williams.
It is so prescient that his last album - The Man Comes Around - speaks so plainly of leaving this life and moving it on farther down the line. The final song on his final album is an old wartime spritual:
"We'll Meet Again"
We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when;
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day...
I like to think that Johnny has met his June again.
Sadly, the world will never meet anyone like Johnny again.
2 - Ronald Douglas
HOW DOES A PERSON GET TO KNOW SOMEONE SO VERY ,VERY DEEP,, MODERATE,SINCERE,, MOTIVATED,, KIND,, BOLD,LOVING,AND STRONG,,
I MYSELF TRULY MISS MR. JOHNNY CASH,, BUT HIS MUSIC,,WILL ALWAY'S STILL HEAR HIM IN THE MIST OF LIFE THAT WE LIVE,,
3 - A. D. Russell
“While yet a Dream”
Commanding one huge, yet gloomily-lit
Branson, Missouri stage
And brightly shining still for both young & a somewhat aged, but very devoted plus quite large,
country-western audience
Johnny with June [wearing glitzy-garb] infused my mind alongside another Upcoming lady-superstar
I couldn’t fairly make out;
As all three twanged and sang in unison - Spoonful, Swoonful-songs
to deeply-southern beats.
While accompanied by a
earthy-demeanored banjo, harmonica, and guitar totting band
of highwaymen; obviously,
from somewhere south of that there much-storied Mason / Dixon line -
played on well into the
vividly-arrayed night.
But the only other thing I can recall
about misty-aura surrounding this splendid ball,
whilst yet a dream Of gone-legends lived on behind Slumber’s grand-ole curtain, once magically-parted,
were the words They sang
will stay evermore crooned
within my heart:
“ I wan nah LIVE, in Ef fi gy … for-ev-errrr”…..
& Though It keeps right on Playing over again, Not haunting, but staying just the same
s even days go by
Why I’d have never forgotten " anyway
That man-in-black and his wife!
A.D. Russell " after 5/03 and 09/03
The night of 11/19/04
4 - Carly
i love john and june cash ever since i have seen walk the line i have just felt so interested in them !!!!!!!!!!!!!their love is forever