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I'll let you into a secret. I say secret if you know me personally it isn't that much of a secret, but I'm a big Bob Dylan fan. This may only be lightly linked to Bobby D but I'm not complaining. The Walkmen recently visited KEXP and laid down some raspy covers of Johnny Cash however one of the tracks was actually a cover that Johnny had done of Bob, so you see the loose link to Mr Zimmerman. The tracks they performed were "Wanted Man" which was originally Dylan's along with "Mr. [...]
Se convidado a comparar Hamilton Leithauser , vocalista do grupo The Walkmen , com um célebre cantor folk, a grande maioria será levada a comparar seu timbre com o de Bob Dylan e poucos imaginariam traçar paralelos com Hamilton e o "man in black" Johnny Cash . Mas o vocalista e sua excelente banda resolveram revisitar, em sessão para a rádio KEXP, exatamente o catálogo de Johnny , com 3 versões de clássicos da lenda norte-americana e um cover de uma canção tradicional do cancioneiro dos EUA, The [...]
The Walkmen were in Seattle last night playing with Fleet Foxes, but while in the area they stopped by local radio station KEXP to perform a session. We certainly know what they've been bumping on their tour bus recently as they decided to take the opportunity, not to promote their own material it seems but to play a bunch of Johnny Cash covers. They started the session with "Darlin' Companion" and secondly played "Wanted Man," which they admitted is a Bob Dylan song, but they "play the Johnny Cash version." Following that it seems they decided to turn [...]
The Central Unit in Sugar Land is now closed. Here's a new one: in Texas, we're shutting down a prison. Not because there aren't enough inmates - no, they have shut down one of the state's oldest prisons because they want to turn the property into a shopping center. Texas is looking for ways to save money and shutting the Central Unit in Sugar Land will save about $12 million a year. Texas bought the prison property in 1908 from Imperial Sugar, the company for which Sugar Land was named. The current prison, built [...]
The two most notable deaths in August happened on the same day: the 22nd. I've already paid tribute to Nick Ashford (HERE) ; on the same day that great songwriter passed away, Jerry Leiber died. I don't think it's necessary to go into detail about the Leiber & Stoller story other than to say that they had a crucial impact on the development of rock & roll. Leiber was the lyricist, and as such got Elvis Presley to sing the great line in Jailhouse Rock: "Number 47 said to number 3,'You're the cutest [...]
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"I've tried and I have failed lord," 75-year-old Glen Campbell sings on A Better Place from the country legend's final album (out Tuesday). The opening track on Ghost on the Canvas sets the tone for Campbell's swan song. "Some days I'm so confused lord/ my past gets in my way," Campbell sings, a reference to his recently diagnosed Alzheimer's disease. On that short, opening song, the voice is so mournful - so pained - that it echoes Johnny Cash performing Trent Reznor's [...]
Confession time: I'm one of the small minority who was never moved by the string of death-rattle albums that Johnny Cash made with producer Rick Rubin. Anyone who followed Cash's career knows he's a complex character, complex enough to record his unofficial theme song "Man in Black" shortly after he did "A Boy Named Sue". The Rubin records stripped Cash's persona down to pure foreboding; making him edgy in the 90's marketing sense. There's no doubt that his cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" spoke to the very real grief Cash was feeling, but it also spoke to the fact [...]
It's easy to see why Jeff Bridges would want to make a self-titled country album . After all his success with Crazy Heart , his fans started to learn that not only can this guy act, but he can also sing. And although B-Sides doesn't typically tune in for country, we just couldn't resist giving this one a listen. While "the dude" doesn't exactly deliver the Johnny Cash-esque rebel country style we were expecting, he still has a lot of talent to offer. Bridges voice flows slowly like a lonely river running [...]
In 1961 a low budget Crime Thriller film was released, it starred Johnny Cash and was entitled Five Minutes To Live . The story portrays a character Johnny Cabot, who gets entangled with a mobster as part of a plan involving the wife of a bank vice president being held hostage. The film also stars a young then unknown Ron Howard, Vic Tayback, and Merle Travis. In addition to this, the story revolves around a gang of people that ring the door bell of an unsuspecting household, killing whoever answers. There is one problem for Cash's character, while he [...]
Marshall Grant, the last surviving member of Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two, has died . It's hard to believe that the trio actually failed their first audition for Sun Records; luckily for them, and us, they got a second chance to tryout and joined the roster in 1955. Grant remained at Cash's side until 1980, when he moved into management. He was still playing, though, and was rehearsing for a benefit to restore Johnny Cash's childhood home when he fell ill last week. Roseanne Cash was clear that her father's success was [...]
Greg Campbell, WireImage Marshall Grant, the first bassist for the late Johnny Cash and a member of the Tennessee Two, died Sunday following an aneurysm. He was 83. Grant died at St. Bernard's Medical Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In a strange coincidence, Grant made the trek to Jonesboro from his home in Hernando, Mississippi to rehearse and perform at the inaugural Johnny Cash Festival with proceeds helping restore Cash's childhood home. The Festival featured George Jones, Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson and many others. He collapsed in his hotel room following rehearsal and [...]
Marshall Grant, the Memphis bassist who along with Carl Perkins' brother Luther, were the members of Johnny Cash's seminal band the Tennessee Two, died early Sunday in Jonesboro, Ark. Cash's d... Continue reading "R.I.P. Marshall Grant, Johnny Cash's Tennessee Two Bassist" >
A look back at Johnny Cash's 'American Recordings' series, with highlights from each album.
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In our interview with Jay Sweet, producer of the Newport Folk Festival with extraordinarily awesome music taste, he mentioned a lot of bands. A whole butt ton of bands. So, being the curious people we are, we set out to listen to all of the artists he mentioned. Turns out, apart from creating an amazing playlist of folk artists they also trace the history and evolution of Newport Folk Festival . Listen to the entire playlist with one click of a button below using our YouTube playlist! [...]
In the slipstream of Johnny Cash came what would become known as the Outlaw Movement, an informal response to Nashville's easy listening, corporate and safe style, often recorded in Texas, reviving the honky tonk sounds of Hank Williams with strong lyrical content. Starting in the mid-'60s with singers like Bobby Bare, Tompall Glaser and Johnny Darrell, the sub-genre's standard bearers would include Waylon Jennings and his wife Jessi Colter, Willie Nelson (after he grew his hair), Kris Kristofferson, Leon Russell, Billy Joe Shaver, Hank Williams Jr, Jerry Jeff Walker and Gram Parsons. More traditionally-minded country stars, many mentored [...]
180 Gram Records has just been granted the licensing rights to release Johnny Cash's and Jimmy Buffett's early works, from there time at Sun Records and Barnaby Records, on 180 gram vinyl. For a limited time through Kickstarter , they are offering all 9 albums from Sun Records and Barnaby Records for $25 a piece. After the promotion ends, on September 6th, the albums will retail for $50 to $85 each. There are other items such as CDs and T-shirts available within different packages on Kickstarter that would be great for collectors or as gifts for [...]
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