WTF, Johnny Cash has now died too!

[CoffeePlease1947]

This really is a bad day. :(

Mike

[VolcanoJen]

1. An awful day indeed.

Rest in Peace, our Man in Black.

[regnaD kciN]

12. Unbelievable...

71 is not old anymore.

Anyway, here's to the only individual to have ever had a bank name their ATMs after him. (No joke -- a chain of banks up in Vancouver had "'Johnny Cash' Machines" at each branch.)

[Dookus]

2. oh...

jesus h fucking christ on a stick....

this is sad. I knew he wouldn't outlive June by much, but this is just heartbreaking.

[E_Zapata]

3. I loved him.

Sad, sad day.

All the good guys are going.

[SmileyBoy]

4. I knew he was sick, but right after John Ritter's death is really sad.

They say that these deaths come in threes (although in recent years they've come in twos). And they were both within hours of each other.

[muchacho]

5. link

please

[CoffeePlease1947]

6. http://www.foxnews.com/ front page n/t

[arcos]

8. link:

http://www.cnn.com

red banner at the top of all pages, where it says "BREAKING NEWS" ;-)

[muchacho]

7. Black day

First this 12 hours ago:

Johnny Cash Leaves Hospital, Prepares To Finish New Album

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1478146/20030911/cash_johnny.jhtml?headlines=true

and then this 3 minutes ago:

Country Music Legend Johnny Cash, Dies at the Age of 71
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030912/nyf034_1.html

Black day....

[arcos]

9. Sept. 11... n/t

[romantico]

10. Clinton's fault!

Man, 2 stars have died today & its not even 7:00am yet! Life is strange.Reagan will live to be 109 & we loose Johnny Cash & John Ritter so early!

[Dookus]

11. and...

Edward Teller and Leni Riefenstahl live long, happy lives.

There is no god.

[whirlygigspin]

13. bad day for John's

is there an Ashcroft on the list?

[Dookus]

14. one can only hope....

but lordy, I'm torn up about Cash. Listening to his music now. He was an amazing talent - and I'm decidedly NOT a country music fan. He transcended Country.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. He's with June, now

and I'm sure she was there to lead him to the Light.

[Bake]

16. Damn. Damn. Damn.

Double fucking damn.

Bake

[Dookus]

17. I shot a man in reno...

just to watch him die....


Goddamn, Johnny. You rocked.

BTW... does anybody know? Is he in the R&R hall of fame?

[Bake]

18. I believe that he is.

But I could be wrong.

Bake

[Dookus]

19. yup...

just looked it up.

He was inducted in '92.

Geez, his death saddens me.

[OneBlueSky]

21. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Class of 1992 . . .

To millions of fans, Johnny Cash is "the Man in Black," a country music legend who sings in an authoritative baritone about the travails of working men and the downtrodden in this country. Lesser known is the fact that Johnny Cash was present at the birth of rock and roll by virtue of being one of the earliest signees to Sam Phillips' Sun Records back in 1955. Cash was part of an elite club of rock and roll pioneers at Sun that included Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. The four were collectively referred to as "the Million Dollar Quartet" after an impromptu gathering and jam session at the Sun recording studio on December 4, 1956. What Cash and his group, the Tennessee Two, brought to the "Sun Sound" was a spartan mix of guitar, standup bass and vocals that served as an early example of rockabilly. Cash recorded a string of rockabilly hits for Sun that included "Cry, Cry, Cry," "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line." The latter was first of more than a dozen Number One country hits for Cash and also marked his first appearance on the national pop singles charts.

Straddling the country, folk and rockabilly idioms, Johnny Cash has crafted more than 400 plainspoken story-songs that describe and address the lives of coal miners, sharecroppers, Native Americans, prisoners, cowboys, renegades and family men. Cash came by his common touch honestly, having been born in Kingsland, Arkansas, during the Great Depression on February 26, 1932. At age three, he moved with his family to Dyess, Arkansas, where he worked the cotton fields. Cash's roaming days included laboring at an auto plant in Michigan, serving in the Air Force in Germany, and working as an appliance salesman in Memphis. Cash became a full-time musician after his two-sided hit -- "So Doggone Lonesome"/"Folsom Prison Blues" -- shot to Number Four on the Billboard country chart in 1956. From Sun, he jumped to Columbia Records in 1958, where he recorded such favorites as "Ring of Fire," "Understand Your Man," "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" and "Tennessee Flat-Top Box." But Cash never forgot his roots, nor did he leave hard times behind. A prototype for the black-clad rebel rocker, Cash cultivated a serious drug problem in the Sixties, which ended when he met his second wife, June Carter, whom he married in 1968.

Some of Cash's best work includes live albums recorded, quite literally, for captive audiences at Folsom and San Quentin prisons. Johnny Cash at San Quentin included the 1969 hit "A Boy Named Sue," which went to Number Two. In 1969, Cash cut a duet with Bob Dylan for the latter's Nashville Skyline, and Dylan returned the favor by appearing on The Johnny Cash Show, a successful TV variety hour that premiered in 1969. All the while, the rugged simplicity and uncut honesty of Cash's approach was steadily seeping into rock and roll by way of the burgeoning country-rock scene. Cash has remained a stalwart figure and working musician to the present day. His career received a shot in the arm in the mid-Nineties when he released what many consider to be his finest album to date, a stark study for guitar and voice entitled American Recordings.

February 26, 1932
Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, AR.

1955
Johnny Cash signs contract with Sun Records.

June 1, 1955
Sam Phillips signs aspiring country singer Johnny Cash and releases his debut single, "Cry! Cry! Cry!"/"Hey! Porter."

May 1, 1956
Sun releases John Cash's "I Walk the Line."

December 4, 1956
The "Million Dollar Quartet"—Presley, Perkins, Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis—records old gospel, country and pop songs at an impromptu session. The recordings aren't officially released until the mid-Eighties.

December 4, 1956
Four legendary past and present Sun Records recording artists—Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash—gather at Sun for an informal jam session. Later dubbed the Million Dollar Quartet, the stars (sans Cash, who stays only briefly) perform gospel standards and recent hits in relaxed, impromptu fashion.

January 1, 1958
Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash sign with Columbia Records. Perkins leaves Sun immediately, Cash leaves in August when his contract is up.

1992
Johnny Cash inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

[Bluzmann57]

20. He certainly is

For his GREAT work on the old Sun Label. Gawd I'm gonna miss Johnny Cash. He had a sense of humor as well as some real life hard times. And he was an avid critic of the Vietnam war when it wasn't "cool" for country guys to be like that. RIP Johnny. Say hi to June and SRV for all of us.

[Dookus]

22. I agree...

I've never had anything less than ultimate respect for him, for both his politics and his musical talent and his taste in wives.

He was one of my heros. It may sound weird for a gay, liberal tech worker, but I have always admired him greatly. He's one of the last of the truly "cool" generation.

[dbt]

28. It ain't weird at ALL, Dookus!

Cash didn't care who you slept with. Or how you voted. Or what church you went to. Or if you even went at all. If you walked your own line, that was OK by him.

BTW, the word "cool" had to be invented for Cash so that mortals would have a label that truly fit him.

:bounce:
dbt

[Bridget Burke]

29. Yes.

Also in the Country Music Hall of Fame & the Nashville Songwriters' Hall of Fame:

www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/

There's Songwriters' Hall of Fame but it neglects Country. (The Nashville version concentrates on Country but includes Chuck Berry & Bob Dylan.)

[RC]

23. The Good die young

Johnny Cash - 71

John Ritter - 55

[REP]

24. Looks Like The Day is Set on "Suck"

AP says Cash died from complications of diabetes.

Today is also my only Aunt's birthday; she died unexpectedly last year.

[Dookus]

25. Delia.... oh Delia...

Delia all my life.
If I hadn't a-shot poor Delia, I'da had her for my wife.
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone.

I went up to Memphis and I met Delia there,
Found her in her parlor and I tied her to her chair,
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone.

She was low-down and trifling. And she was cold and mean.
Kind of evil want to make me grab my sub-machine
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone.


First time I shot her, I shot her in the side,
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the secon shot she died
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone.

But Jailer, O Jailer!
Jailer I can't sleep...
Cuz all around my bedside I hear
the patter of Delia's feet.

Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone.

So if your woman's devilish,
you can let her run,
or you can bring her down and do her like
Delia got done

Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone.
Delia's gone, one more round, Delia's gone.

[BigMcLargehuge]

26. Nothing like waking up to bad news...

John and John...

Jeez

[bunk76]

27. ugghhhhh....

I awake and put the t.v. on Johnny Cash dead,John Ritter,dead,more people die in Iraq,then the annoucer says Ben and J-lo and I thought
some good news,but alas it was only about the friggin on and off again wedding.O well im going back to bed.

PEACE

[Iverson]

30. Let's remember him well.

It's rough.

[supernova]

31. Farewell Johnny Cash

What a sweet, intelligent, passionate man. Sorry to be morbid, but I wondered how long he would last without June. She was his heart and soul.

RIP, Johnny.

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. The little dark haired boy that played the "Tenessee Flat Top Box" is

at peace now.

It is a teary day for me. Johnny cash was my deceased Father in law's favorite singer, and a favorite of my husband and myself. Simple ideas, simple songs. But, when these people leave us,it's like I lose a little bit more of my father in law. I know it's silly, but I felt the same when Waylon Jennings died. Time, that nasty thief, has struck again.

[Garage Queen]

33. Rest in Peace to the Boy Named Sue

:(

[underpants]

34. June Carter passed three months ago today

That happens a lot.

[buddhamama]

35. Johnny will be back again...and again and again

as a highwayman or a drop of rain.

He lives on, through his humanity his music, the lives he has touched, in our hearts.

:-(

"I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
But I am still alive.

I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still.

I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and
around and around

I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again.."

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. Excellent song.

:cry:

[buddhamama]

38. one of my favorites

i added the lyrics

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. It has always reminded me of my Father in law. He passed away in '00

from suicide,now every time I hear it it will choke me up doubly.

There is a tape out called "Americana" that has quite a few of his songs on it. Along with Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins and a lot of other great REAL country singers.

I'll be crying right along side you today.

[buddhamama]

40. if not for Johnny

i'm not sure i'd have given the country/traditional music that my mother loved so much a chance. Johnny was different and cool, so i figured it couldn't be all that bad.

:hug:

[Paragon]

37. Speechless

Rest in peace.