Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line REACTION! This is a love song!?!?

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Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line REACTION! This is a love song!?!?

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[bibliophileforever]

Here's a story for you... I've already mentioned in a previous post that I had an "older mom" compared to my peers. Well, I was visiting her in the nursing home one day, just sitting around the large dining table with some of the other ladies of the home. The TV on the wall next to the table was playing the movie Walk the Line. Whenever Joaquin Phoenix began singing a Johnny Cash song, every single one of those ladies, who are from many different parts of the country (U.S.) stopped their conversations to chair dance and sing along with him, including my mother who had dementia. It was like they were twenty-somethings again. One of the most heartwarming things I have ever witnessed in person. Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it. Music has been called an international language, but I also think it is a bridge. A bridge to the past for people like my mother, a bridge between generations like me and my mother, and a bridge for you BP and your viewers (both young and old). Keep up the good work BP!

[Jamac]

He has a song called "Man in Black" that explains his philosophy on why he is the Man in Black. Great song.

[dawngipe]

This was one of my dads favorite singers. When he was in hospice dying we put Johnny on for him. I hope he heard it. He passed the next morning. 😢

[wegotlumpsofitroundtheback]

The Edge, the guitarist for U2, tells a story about recording their song "The Wanderer" (which you should hear - it's great!), which they wrote for Cash, in a studio in Nashville. They had never met him personally before. Cash was a big man at six foot two with broad shoulders, and The Edge said when he walked into the room, resplendant in black, nodded, extended his enormous hand and intoned "Hi, I'm John", Edge said he never saw U2 frontman Bono speechless before. He said it was as if Mount Rushmore had walked into the room.

[floridaboy]

He changes key on every verse in this song. Some singers may do one verse in a different key at the end of a song, but Johnny Cash is the only one I know that changes key on every single verse in this song. It takes real talent to do that.

[sherricallahan]

Kris’s song “ Why Me, Lord?” Was his biggest hit.

[CarlHasenauer]

Johnny Cash did a song called Sunday morning coming down. It was written by Kris Kristofferson. Johnny was influential in getting Kris Kristofferson in the business.

[CurtisWheatley-gc]

I fell into a burning ring of fire 🔥 😊

[madisonwhite]

My dad has been to prison and he would always sing this as a reminder to me that he would do anything for me and my safety, including “walking the line” in prison when everyone has to walk chained together. Its crazy how songs can mean so many different things to people 💕

[seeingthruyou]

"One Piece at a Time" is a fun song. "Boy Named Sue" is a lot of fun too.

[fastecp]

I Walk the Line is about his commitment to his first wife, Vivian Liberto, and his promise to remain faithful to her while on tour. You should watch the movie about his life, Walk the Line (2005), based on two autobiographies starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.

[jayhank]

Speaking of Kris Kristofferson he wrote Sunday Morning Coming Down for Johnny Cash and Johnny Cash performed in live on his TV show. Cash was told by the producers to change some of the wording, "Lord, I wish I was stoned" because that was a taboo to say on a family show in 1968. But he sang it the way Kris wrote it and Kris was seen smiling in the audience when he did. Both Johnny and Kris recorded the song and that would be a great reaction for sure. Both Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson were master song writers.

[CJBW]

His 2nd wife/soulmate forever was June Carter who was also very famous as part of The Carter Family. There is a daughter Roseanne Cash who also had a successful music career

[jayhank]

This was the first .45 record I bought as a 14 year old boy in 1957. I still have it and I have about every other record and album Johnny Cash recorded for 50 years. I saw him in concert several times and they were great. The Carter Family, Statler Brothers and Carl Perkins all toured with him. The Johnny Cash TV show presented some classic performers including Louis Armstrong, Waylon Jennings and introduced Linda Ronstadt to the world. Johnny Cash is on the Mount Rushmore of Country Music. This reaction is why I am a member. It is fire and you pick out some great ones BP.

[Steven-iz]

I remember as a 5 year old listening to my mom playing this song. I am 68 now, the studio version has Johnny really going deep on his vocals.

[revaflowers]

Johnny Cash was sort of the Outlaw before the Outlaw Country music revolution of the 70s and 80s made country cool to listen to along with your rock n roll . His early songs are just as good, his voice just as penetrating and easy to sing to. This song and I Still Miss Someone are songs my parents played a lot. Be careful or you'll catch an earworm here.
His band was called The Tennessee Three, and had Carl Perkins(Blue Suede Shoes) and Marty Stuart (This One's Going To Hurt For A Long Long Time)as members of his band during his career.

[ChoppersModelworks]

When it comes to getting an idea of what music Kris Kristofferson was capable of writing and singing i think there is a trio often overlooked.
Watching him explain the story behind "Why Me Lord" before he plays it in the video " Why Me Lord Story - Told and Sung By kris kristofferson", is a must watch.
And "Sunday morning coming down" showcases how he could write some amazing lyrics.
And even though people will suggest some of his more common songs, i think his song "The Pilgrim" may best define what kind of writer and singer he was.

[angelado]

This is another banger ( I've Been Everywhere Johnny Cash )

[reginairvine]

You should watch any of his videos he did at Folsom Prison. Truly great stuff

[justwondering]

He changed the song up a little from the studio recording, in which he showcases his low bass by singing that last lyric an octave lower than this performance.
If you care for patriotic songs, Johnny Cash had a spoken-only song called The Ragged Old Flat.
For a while Johnny Cash had a TV variety show. He brought Roger Miller on as a guest, who had a little fun with the lyrics: "I keep my pants up with a piece of twine. I keep my eyes wide open all the time. I keep the ends out for the tie that binds. Please say you're mine, and pull the twine."