Tag: johnny cash

Music Notes

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 21, 2018

So, I was reading Rachel Lee Rubin’s new short book on Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee” and I learned something I didn’t know but that also didn’t surprise me. You know how on the famous Johnny Cash Live at San Quentin album, how the prisoners cheer when he sings on “Folsom Prison Blues” “I shot […]

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What Is Truth?

By Erik Loomis

On January 14, 2018

I really hate older people blaming everything on millenials. First, it’s dumb. Second, nothing is their fault except for the return of questionable facial hair! Sure, it’d be great to igno

Culture , Flashback Friday

Flashback Friday: The Time Johnny Cash Covered Depeche Mode

By Christa Blackmon

On September 29, 2017

Jesus got his name in a cynical pop love song In 1989 British electronic band Depeche Mode released a song that your church youth leader can’t decide if he hates. A 1990 profile in Spin magazine

Throwback Thursday: The Wayfaring Stranger Song

By Christa Blackmon

In Culture , Flashback Friday , General

On June 22, 2017

While I’m still technically on vacation and will be on a transatlantic flight on Friday, I had a burst of inspiration and had to write this one up a little early. The Wayfaring Stranger song is an old American folk song that has been passed around the bluegrass, western, country western, folk and rock music […]

Culture , Flashback Friday , General

Flashback Friday: Weddings Are For Memories

By Christa Blackmon

On June 16, 2017

Its June, the beginning of wedding season. I celebrated my second wedding anniversary this Tuesday and we’re in the States for another friend’s wedding this weekend. We’re running ou

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Johnny Cash as John Brown

By Erik Loomis

On May 7, 2014

For the 1985 miniseries North and South, the producers hired the greatest actor of his generation to play John Brown. His name? Mr. John R. Cash. Via

Hurt

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 3, 2013

Of course “Hurt” is a Johnny Cash song. In the public mind, any song sung by Johnny Cash is automatically a Johnny Cash song, be it “Cocaine Blues” or “Bird on a Wire” or “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” Why even research such an obvious fact? You don’t have to listen to a single country music […]

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Cocaine Blues

By Erik Loomis

On May 23, 2013

Roy Hogsed’s 1948 version of “Cocaine Blues” Country Music History 101 teaches everyone that Johnny Cash did not write that song, though he did a good version of it. I will save most