Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 - September 12, 2003)

[throatybeard]

Ten years ago today, we lost Johnny Cash. I was listening to NPR in the morning, and when the announcer said "Country music legend..." I didn't need to hear the predicate in the sentence; I already knew what had happened. I beat Shalay home in the afternoon, and I drew a little stick figure of me, head hung, kneeling in front of a cross to mark a grave, a guitar, a black hat, and a flower. In those days in Durham she walked two blocks to work, so I knew she would not have heard or seen news. I was sitting at the kitchen table when she came in the door, and I handed her the stick figure journal, and she looked at it, and we looked at each other, and we proceeded to bawl our eyes out for twenty minutes as if someone in our own family had died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0MIFHLIzZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kHiuxn0FhI

[OldPhiKap]

Ten years ago today, we lost Johnny Cash. I was listening to NPR in the morning, and when the announcer said "Country music legend..." I didn't need to hear the predicate in the sentence; I already knew what had happened. I beat Shalay home in the afternoon, and I drew a little stick figure of me, head hung, kneeling in front of a cross to mark a grave, a guitar, a black hat, and a flower. In those days in Durham she walked two blocks to work, so I knew she would not have heard or seen news. I was sitting at the kitchen table when she came in the door, and I handed her the stick figure journal, and she looked at it, and we looked at each other, and we proceeded to bawl our eyes out for twenty minutes as if someone in our own family had died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0MIFHLIzZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kHiuxn0FhI

http://youtu.be/McV7pjwVFbE

The last video he did, I believe.

[rthomas]

Ten years ago today, we lost Johnny Cash. I was listening to NPR in the morning, and when the announcer said "Country music legend..." I didn't need to hear the predicate in the sentence; I already knew what had happened. I beat Shalay home in the afternoon, and I drew a little stick figure of me, head hung, kneeling in front of a cross to mark a grave, a guitar, a black hat, and a flower. In those days in Durham she walked two blocks to work, so I knew she would not have heard or seen news. I was sitting at the kitchen table when she came in the door, and I handed her the stick figure journal, and she looked at it, and we looked at each other, and we proceeded to bawl our eyes out for twenty minutes as if someone in our own family had died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0MIFHLIzZY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kHiuxn0FhI

Yea, I remember that day too. Was in Duke Forest doing research and heard the same thing on NPR. Had just driven down from WV with my grad student the day before listening to American IV. My grad student said he had never really heard Johnny Cash until that CD. Listening to WUNC all day and basically every NPR talk show had something about him. He was THE Man.

[wilson]

I was a senior at Duke, and I had ridden to Wimpy's on Hillsborough Road with a friend for yet another of the Greatest Cheeseburgers Known to Man.
We heard the news on the radio just as we were pulling into the parking lot, and upon hearing it, I opened my door and poured a healthy splash of my beer (yeah, yeah, I know, but Johnny was an outlaw too, right?) out onto Wimpy's asphalt.

[OldPhiKap]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc

[OZZIE4DUKE]

Y'all's comments remind me of the day Elvis died. Women we're crying at their desks and in the streets.

[Indoor66]

Y'all's comments remind me of the day Elvis died. Women we're crying at their desks and in the streets.

I cried that day!

[throatybeard]

I cried that day!

I probably did too.

(I was ten months old).

[Indoor66]

I probably did too.

(I was ten months old).

You have missed much of what I have seen; I have seen all that you have seen and you will probably see some that I won't. C'est la vie.

[OldPhiKap]

You have missed much of what I have seen; I have seen all that you have seen and you will probably see some that I won't. C'est la vie.

I'm not aware of too many things; I know what I know if you know what I mean.



Do 'ya?


-- Mrs. Paul Simon

[Indoor66]

I'm not aware of too many things; I know what I know if you know what I mean.



Do 'ya?


-- Mrs. Paul Simon

Huh?

[OldPhiKap]

Huh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA

(Sorry, been on a bad-'80's song wave today. And now Edie Brickell is married to Paul Simon. There are times when I'm even too obscure for myself to understand.)

[Indoor66]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA

(Sorry, been on a bad-'80's song wave today. And now Edie Brickell is married to Paul Simon. There are times when I'm even too obscure for myself to understand.)

Maybe she should try the Sound of Silence.

[SoCalDukeFan]

Johnny Cash is one of my all time favorites. I was determined to see him live if I had the chance and in 1997 he came to the House of Blues in LA.

Loved the show.

Shortly after he came down with a disease and had to stop touring.

Very very glad I did not pass up the opportunity to see him.

SoCal

[weezie]

Joaquin Phoenix was spectacular as Cash in the movie. He wuz robbed of the Academy Award.

[throatybeard]

Joaquin Phoenix was spectacular as Cash in the movie. He wuz robbed of the Academy Award.

I was really impressed with that. I initially felt that the whole project was a fool's errand, but Phoenix really did his darndest and he changed my mind.