Johnny Cash

5 Things You Didn't Know About Johnny Cash's 'folsom Prison Blues

... artist. The song is partially plagiarized. Cash cribbed from Gordon Jenkins' "Crescent City Blues," which includes the opening line "I hear the train a'comin'; it's rollin' 'round the bend." Cash forked over a reported $100,000 after Jenkins sued him for copyright infringement. Cash scored a major hit with "Folsom Prison Blues" – twice. A Top Five single in 1956, "Folsom Prison Blues" returned to the country charts a dozen years later, this time as the lead track from At Folsom Prison. The cheers heard during the live version of "Folsom Prison Blues" were secretly spliced into the recording. The hoots and hollers heard after the lyric, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die," were added by producer Bob Johnston. Cash began performing "Folsom Prison Blues" for inmates in the late Fifties, more than a decade before At Folsom Prison's release. The occupants of a prison in Huntsville, Texas, gave Cash his first incarnated audience back in 1957. When ...

Icp, Pop Evil, Eric Church, Johnny Cash Birthday And More

... Call 248-377-0100 or visit __link__. • Guitar-slinging favorite Anthony Gomes rocks at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, at Callahan’s Music Hall, 2105 South Blvd., Auburn Hills. Tickets are $20 and $15. Call 248-858-9508 or visit __link__. • The country crews of Lo Cash and the Fighters perform Saturday, Feb. 25, at Saint Andrews Hall. Tickets are $22.50. Call 313-961-6358 or visit __link__. • Upstart British singer Dua Lipa previews her upcoming debut album Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Shelter, Tickets are $17.50. Call 313-961-6358 or visit __link__. • Flamboyant French electronic artist Tchami parties Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth St. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 day of show. Call 248-399-2980 or visit __link__. • The late Johnny Cash’s 86 th birthday will be celebrated by Rock Harley at the Johnny Cash Tribute Revue & Birthday Celebration on Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Parliament Room in Otus Supply, 345 E. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale. Longneck Strangler also performs. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $12. Call 248-291-6160 or visit __link__. • R&B great Lee Fields & the Expressions make it intimate on Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Majestic ...

Remember When Johnny Cash Proposed To June Carter Onstage

... proposal during a gig in London, Ontario, Canada on Feb. 22, 1968. The moment was later depicted as one of the pivotal scenes in the Oscar-winning Cash biopic I Walk the Line, which starred Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and Reese Witherspoon as Carter. Cash and Carter met for the first time backstage at the Grand Ole Opry in 1956, at a time when Carter was singing with Elvis Presley. Cash was married to his first wife, Vivian Liberto, at the time, but after 12 years and four daughters together, Liberto filed for divorce from Cash, citing his ongoing addictions and alleging extramarital affairs. Liberto, who died in 2005, called  the divorce a “degrading, horrible experience” in her autobiography, I Walk the Line: My Life With Johnny, and contrary to the rosy picture that’s generally portrayed of Carter, she blamed her for the split, saying June set out to steal her husband deliberately. “I should have been relentless at saving” the marriage, Liberto ...

Johnny Cash Returns In 'hot Country' Tribute Show Next Month

... Colin Kenny from Offaly. Colin had yet to release a single at the time the show was recorded, but he's recently celebrated his debut single, 'Don't Close Your Eyes', hitting the top spot on the i Tunes Irish country chart while continuing to hold its own on the country radio airplay chart. Now, the man is bringing not one but two shows to Moate, but both are very different. The first, on March 20, Ireland will get another taste of a young man whose extraordinary talents thrilled all who witnessed his appearance at last year's Hot Country Awards Show. Scotsman Brandon Mc Phee is both an accordion whizz-kid and a country-crooner all rolled into one. He is charismatic, and certainly born-for-the-stage. On March 27, the Tuar Ard will be transformed into a Nashville honky-tonk when 'Cash Returns,' the award-winning tribute to Johnny Cash and June Carter, recreates the raw energy and passion which transformed Johnny and June into two of country music's most iconic figures. With a set-list sure to include classics such as 'Folsom Prison Blues', 'Jackson', 'Ring Of Fire', 'If I Were A Carpenter', and 'Walk The ...

Portsmouth High Grad Plays Johnny Cash In New Tv Series

... ‘Casting wants to talk to you right now; they loved you!’”. Fonteyne, still humbled by the role, marvels about playing Cash. “It was kind of divine intervention. He kept popping up into my life while I was doing the audition process,” he said. “And then, I found out that I got the job (on) February 26 th last year, which, I don’t know if you know this, was Johnny Cash’s birthday. So it was meant to be.”. Inspired by the Blues, and artists Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, The Black Keyes and Jack White, Fonteyne spent about four months immersing himself in Memphis, Tennessee, while shooting on location for the series’ first season. Fonteyne reminisced, “It was great. I went to Sun Records. I went to Graceland … We stayed at the Chisca Hotel, which I didn’t know about until I got there.”. The hotel was home to DJ Dewey Phillips’ popular radio show, “Red, Hot and Blue,” and holds the claim to fame of broadcasting Elvis Presley’s first-ever ...

Johnny Cash, Channeled Through Humble Harry At The Hermosa Saloon

... but when I got to The Crossroads I took the safe route in life because I was afraid of Failure and Rejection. Years went by, and I learned Yer Gunna Fail and Be Rejected in life, but it doesn’t matter. Then one night in 2005 I stopped in a bar to see an old friend, and some Young Lady came up and told Me that I was the only person in the bar not singing. I told her that we were talking about some friends that had died, and I’m not getting up there and making an ass of Myself. She kept bugging Me until I got up and sang. I sang “King Of The Road” by Roger Miller, and I tried to sound as much like him as I could. I told the host, “Just play the music; I don’t need the lyrics; lemme get this over with.”. When I started a lotta people hit the dance floor, and when I finished they all cheered. It felt really good (but) I thought they were all Drunk and just being nice. The host told me “Great Job,” but that’s what he said to a guy that really sucked, so I didn’t believe him. But I told him, if he had Johnny Cash’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” I’d sing it. Ya see, that ...

Slurry And Whiskey

... song lyrics. Cash, who died in 2003, never rose to Dylan's level of wordplay; hearing the gravelly, God-haunted, and thoroughly human tones of his late Unearthed albums, one suspects Cash wasn't willing to make the devil's barter that Dylan did, sacrificing voice for song. Fair enough. But even if they lack Dylan's sheer linguistic display, might one ask if Cash's lyrics possess the verbal resonance, lapidary phrasing, and suggestive imagery we find in great poetry. In "Don't Make a Movie About Me," Cash warns, "If you don't know my tune you can't get it right," and everything about Forever Words suggests that one needs to know the tune, to be invested in Cash's music in order to be moved by his writings. As his son John Carter Cash admits in the foreword, "When I hold these papers, I feel his presence within the handwriting." The handwriting, not the writing itself. That's not to say there aren't moments of genuine poetry here. At his best, Cash reads like a down-home Renaissance ...

Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristopherson To Headline Johnny Cash Heritage Festival Concert

... Festival was held in Jonesboro. Over the years, the boyhood house, the old theatre building and the administration building have been restored under the first phase of the project, thanks to the proceeds from the music festival. In order to start the second phase of work, the Johnny Cash Heritage Festival will take place.  Instead of one concert being held in Jonesboro, this festival will cover three days in October.  A symposium will take place October 19 th and 20 th, and the music portion of the festival will be held on Saturday, October 21 st.  Johnny Cash’s oldest daughter Rosanne says it is appropriate that the festival and the music be held at the location where the Cash family moved during the New Deal Era.  Rosanne says the cotton fields that surround the home are perfect for the concert, because the land was an inspiration for much of her dad’s music. "The Sunken Lands provided the kind of work ethic that ...

Nashville Ballet Revisits Popular Johnny Cash Ballet

... series. (Photo: Anthony Matula). 470 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. Growing up in Connecticut, Christopher Stuart didn’t know much about country music. But he’ll never forget his introduction to Johnny Cash. “It was 2002, and I had just moved to Nashville,” says Stuart, a longtime dancer and choreographer with Nashville Ballet. “I saw the video for ‘Hurt,’ a song I knew from Nine Inch Nails, and I was just glued to the television. I really didn’t know much about Johnny Cash, but there was something in that performance that hooked me. I went out and bought everything I could find — music, books, everything — I wanted to know the man behind the music.”. Inspired by that musical legacy, Stuart would go on to create a full-length ballet called “Under the Lights.” The piece, which features live music by Nashville’s own Sugar + the Hi-Lows, first premiered in 2014 and returns Feb. 9 as part of Nashville Ballet’s annual contemporary series “Attitude.”. “Under the Lights” showcases some of Cash’s most beloved hits, including “Ring of Fire,” “Walk the Line” and “God’s ...

Johnny Cash Festival Going Back To Singer's Arkansas Roots

... that tourists' spending in the Dyess area could eventually reach $10 million a year. Jeff Bailey, 38, is owner of Bailey's Grocery, Dyess' sole grocery store. There used to be five. Just a block from the Dyess Colony Center, it's in a prime spot to do some business this fall. "We certainly hope it generates some revenue here," said Bailey, a third-generation Dyess resident. "I don't know that we've seen anything this big before. I mean, Kris Kristofferson and Rosanne Cash, that's big.". Jewell, he said, also is popular locally. "I think maybe being in the middle of town will help our store," Bailey said. His store gets five or six customers a week from people trying to find the Cash home. Bailey no longer sells Cash souvenirs - the visitor's center has that market cornered - but he might stock a few items for the festival. Just north of town, on Arkansas 14, the old and eclectic Mc Crory General Store once had a few Cash trinkets for sale among other dusty wares, but its owner, George Washington (G. W.) Mc Crory, died last June at 92. The store, which opened in 1953, has been closed since. Saved by Dyess. With eight months to go, many festival ...

Celebrating Johnny Cash, Saint Bridget And Ambiguous Vibes

... and tomorrow with various beers, food and live music. Today, Goldspot releases La Cienega Farmhouse. Aged in oak barrels, this beer was brewed with Syrah grapes from Infinite Monkey Theorem. There will be live music from Roman Samuels Music and food from Baby E's BBQ. Related Stories. Mu Brewery Will Shutter in Aurora Less Than Three Years After Opening. Oskar Blues Brewery will introduce Hotbox Coffee IPA, a new nationwide canned seasonal beer, today with a party at its Tasty Weasel taproom in Longmont. The 7.2 percent ABV beer "combines a burst of pine, citrus and mango from Simcoe hops and blends them with a cold-brew extract from Hotbox Roasters' Ethiopian beans, which bring cream, blueberry and cocoa notes to the mix. The beans were sourced from a family farm in the East African nation exclusively for this beer," says Oskar Blues, which owns ...

Pugwash To Pay Tribute To Johnny Cash

... of never losing touch with the common person is championed on the anniversary of his birthday in the harbor community of Pugwash. What started as a fun way of raising donations for the local foodbank is becoming a tradition. The Johnny Cash Food Drive takes place at the Pugwash Co-Op, where patrons are encourage to dress up in black, enjoy some birthday cake and old-time country music while making a donation of a non-perishable food item to the Open Hamper Food Bank. And, of course, enjoy a bologna sandwich. Enter Bert Mc Wade, originally from Charlottetown and now Pugwash’s own man in black of sorts. “Johnny Cash came to Charlottetown in May of 1958, at that time it was with the Tennessee Two. Johnny had an interview in Moncton and flew into Charlottetown. The Cheverie family owned the taxi at the time and Winston Cheverie was a schoolmate of mine and driving taxi at the time and he got to drive ...