Johnny Cash

[futha]

Woody Guthrie wrote his own stuff and it's well worth a listen, especially if you like Dylan, who was as its well known heavily influenced by him.

There's a Google Video of Dylan and Cash playing 'Girl from The North Country' on guitar on Cash's tv show and its most amusing to see Cash playing completely different chords and Dylan looking at him as if to say "What the fuck ARE you playing?"

yeah ive seen that video. gets bit cheesy towards the end. doesnt woddy guthries son also play music? ill be sure to check it out

 

[EddyBlack]

Woody Guthrie wrote his own stuff and it's well worth a listen, especially if you like Dylan, who was as its well known heavily influenced by him.

Woody was the genuine article. Here is some footage of him.

Woody with Sonny Terry and Brownie Mcghee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-GHye9ohA

The other Woody film www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeTWqCUjVoQ&NR=1

 

[Barking_Mad]

yeah ive seen that video. gets bit cheesy towards the end. doesnt woddy guthries son also play music? ill be sure to check it out

Yes, Arlo Guthrie - most famous for 'Alice's Restaurant' a 18 minute epic piece of funny storytelling about how dumping rubbish got him and his friends a police record and stopped them from being able to sign up for Vietnam.

Also did 'Everbody's Talking' which was later covered by The Beautiful South.

The Motorcycle Song is one of my favourites of his.

Phil Ochs was also in the same vein, good stuff to play on an acoustic guitar

 

[futha]

ive heard of arlo guthrie i think either him or his dad (if hes stll alive?) played in manchester a while ago. ill be sure to check them out as i love dylan

 

[London_Calling]

what about wuddy guthrie or chuck berry or buddy holly though? i may be getting my dates slightly wrong though.

I'm not sure Guthrie was ever a popular artist in the 'sales units' sense, Berry certainly wasn't unfamiliar with postwar urban blues - conveniently for him a lot of which wasn't ever recorded, and yep, Buddy Holly did compose some popular songs - in the brief period he was popular and not dead.

In terms of the steller singer/songwriter genre and who came first, I'd think there wasn't too much to choose between Dylan and The Beatles.

 

[twistedAM]

Cash, cash, Johnny Cash back to the point He made Elvis look tame & made Jerry Lee look like a pussycat.

Please explain; particularly the latter one.

 

[Dubversion]

Superape, i can't be arsed to go right into it, but you've conflated a lot of half-truths, generalisations and inaccuracies and come out with something that's damn near fiction.

 

[mozzy]

I really like JC, but i have to say i was a bit disapointed by the film Walk the Line as it just seemed to consist of a love story between him and June. I was hoping to see other aspects of his life in more detail.

 

[lighterthief]

Yes, Arlo Guthrie - most famous for 'Alice's Restaurant' a 18 minute epic piece of funny storytelling about how dumping rubbish got him and his friends a police record and stopped them from being able to sign up for Vietnam.

I'd recommend Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie in Concert - brilliant record.

Anyhoo: I saw Johnny Cash in concert. Best gig I've been to

 

[EddyBlack]

Who else would have the courage to do concerts in the most notorious prisons and be able to pull it off?

at San Quentin


Singing at San Quentin

 

[twistedAM]

Who else would have the courage to do concerts in the most notorious prisons and be able to pull it off?

Um, like Merle Haggard - he was in the audience.

 

[EddyBlack]

Ok thats one else

 

[twistedAM]

I'm sure others did the prison gigs too (don't make me go and google them); they maybe weren't as high profile an artist as Johnny Cash and certainly didn't have TV channels in tow.

From Bob Wills and the apppropriately-named Texas Playboys through to Hank Williams, ex-boxing champion Lefty Frizzell, the out-of-his-box Johnny Paycheck and the rather fucking scary David Allen Coe, country music is littered with druggies, psychos, hardmen and rebels.
Cash did his bit but he's not unique in the respect of toughness or courage.
I think if you look to some of the female country stars especially Loretta Lynn you'll find some more remarkable stories.

 

[EddyBlack]

Well sorry Twisted your gonna have to get googling to prove that one. I'm not sure Haggard did a prison gig, nor any of those other folks.

I'll start you off - , recorded songs as a prisoner and he was allowed a guitar in there, but a 'concert' no.

i'll have a look at those others you mentioned though.

 

[twistedAM]

Well sorry Twisted your gonna have to get googling to prove that one. I'm not sure Haggard did a prison gig, nor any of those other folks.

I'll start you off - , recorded songs as a prisoner and he was allowed a guitar in there, but a 'concert' no.

i'll have a look at those others you mentioned though.

wasn;t saying any of the others did prison gigs..i'll have a google an get back to you..i'm sure there were some

 

[twistedAM]

BB King, Charles Manson and more recently Michael Franti all played live at SQ

Outside of that though I'm sure Steve Earle and maybe TVZ did some prison stuff in Texas

 

[Superape]

Sure I saw a story about Joaquin Phoenix doing a prison concert doing the JC songs he'd learned for the film. Good man!

Dubversion - you're just mad cos I mentioned the Beatles again

 

[twister]

only properly got into Cash after the semi-recent film. The man himself interested me, and now the more I hear his music, the more I appreciate this man for the legend he is.

He made me see how good country can be.

RIP.