Johnny Cash performed several country music songs that are enduring classics and crossed over to the mainstream. He didn’t write all his hits, and “Folsom Prison Blues” set his bank account back 75,000 after a plagiarism lawsuit, but that doesn’t change the fact The Man in Black remains a country legend because of his tunes. One of Cash’s signature songs, “Ring of Fire,” comes with a twisting and sordid story that is song-worthy itself.
June Carter Cash (left) and Johnny Cash | ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Johnny Cash didn’t earn a songwriting credit for ‘Ring of Fire’
Aside from Cash’s deep-throated baritone, “A Boy Named Sue” and “Ring of Fire” don’t have all that much in common. The former is a relatively simple country-folk storytelling narrative. The latter is a genre-bending country-latin tune whose mariachi horns might be the highlight.
June Carter Cash (left) and Johnny Cash | ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images Johnny Cash didn’t earn a songwriting credit for ‘Ring of Fire’
Aside from Cash’s deep-throated baritone, “A Boy Named Sue” and “Ring of Fire” don’t have all that much in common. The former is a relatively simple country-folk storytelling narrative. The latter is a genre-bending country-latin tune whose mariachi horns might be the highlight.
- 2/9/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Before he became a country music star, Johnny Cash grew up poor in rural Arkansas during the Great Depression. At the time, losing 75,000 from his bank account was unfathomable. Heck, having 75,000 was just a dream. Cash’s impressive net worth when he died took a hit years earlier when he settled a lawsuit over one of his most notable songs.
Johnny Cash | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Johnny Cash is practically synonymous with ‘Folsom Prison Blues’
Cash wrote and performed hundreds of well-known songs during his lengthy career.
The Man in Black put several songs on the Billboard hot 100 and country songs charts in 1958, but those came after his earliest success. Cash struggled to record “Cry! Cry! Cry!” in 1955. He and his band needed at least 35 takes to get through the B-side to his first single, but it became a hit.
“Folsom Prison Blues” was one of Cash’s early Sun Records songs,...
Johnny Cash | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Johnny Cash is practically synonymous with ‘Folsom Prison Blues’
Cash wrote and performed hundreds of well-known songs during his lengthy career.
The Man in Black put several songs on the Billboard hot 100 and country songs charts in 1958, but those came after his earliest success. Cash struggled to record “Cry! Cry! Cry!” in 1955. He and his band needed at least 35 takes to get through the B-side to his first single, but it became a hit.
“Folsom Prison Blues” was one of Cash’s early Sun Records songs,...
- 1/29/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Johnny Cash made a name for himself as a country music star, and traditional gospel hymns were some of the earliest songs he learned. He once said his favorite album was his record of songs from his mother’s hymn book. Yet Cash praised heavy metal bands and included them on the list of music he appreciated. The Man in Black called out would-be music censors stalking the warpath in the 1980s.
Johnny Cash | Catherine McGann/Getty Images Johnny Cash covered heavy metal songs later in his career
Rick Rubin helped revive Cash’s career in the 1990s. The producer reached out to the country music legend with a simple request — play the songs you want to play. Their collaboration led to a series of albums titled after Rubin’s record label, American Recordings.
The first record, American Recordings, included Cash’s cover of punk/metal star Glenn Danzig’s “Thirteen.
Johnny Cash | Catherine McGann/Getty Images Johnny Cash covered heavy metal songs later in his career
Rick Rubin helped revive Cash’s career in the 1990s. The producer reached out to the country music legend with a simple request — play the songs you want to play. Their collaboration led to a series of albums titled after Rubin’s record label, American Recordings.
The first record, American Recordings, included Cash’s cover of punk/metal star Glenn Danzig’s “Thirteen.
- 1/27/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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[This interview contains major spoilers for episode seven of Westworld season 4, “Metanoia.”]
In the penultimate episode of Westworld season four, Charlotte Hale’s new world order is crushed by the hands of several hosts.
That includes host William (Ed Harris), whose embracement of his human counterpart’s violent, nihilistic tendencies doesn’t just bring Hale’s tower crashing down, but whose’s arrival as — or return to — the Man in Black sees quite a few of Westworld‘s most prominent characters catch a bullet from his very gun.
Among them is this season’s omniscient host Bernard, played by Jeffrey Wright, who in episode seven comes face-to-face with the show’s original villain in Hale’s (Tessa Thompson) tower — her hub for putting humans in loops and making the world into her park.
Death is a fate that Bernard would have seemingly wanted to avoid, but in crunch time reveals is a fate out of his control.
[This interview contains major spoilers for episode seven of Westworld season 4, “Metanoia.”]
In the penultimate episode of Westworld season four, Charlotte Hale’s new world order is crushed by the hands of several hosts.
That includes host William (Ed Harris), whose embracement of his human counterpart’s violent, nihilistic tendencies doesn’t just bring Hale’s tower crashing down, but whose’s arrival as — or return to — the Man in Black sees quite a few of Westworld‘s most prominent characters catch a bullet from his very gun.
Among them is this season’s omniscient host Bernard, played by Jeffrey Wright, who in episode seven comes face-to-face with the show’s original villain in Hale’s (Tessa Thompson) tower — her hub for putting humans in loops and making the world into her park.
Death is a fate that Bernard would have seemingly wanted to avoid, but in crunch time reveals is a fate out of his control.
- 8/9/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for Westworld Season 4, Episode 4, “Generation Loss.”] Well, looks like The Man in Black (Ed Harris) and James Delos (Peter Mullan) aren’t the only Westworld characters answering questions for an ominous baseline interview. Caleb Nichols (Aaron Paul) is “in the thing” now, too. After dying at the Delos construction site 23 years ago, Hale-ores (Tessa Thompson) recreated him hundreds of times as part of a mysterious experiment, testing the host version of him for fidelity. But what is “fidelity,” and where have we seen it on the show before? Here’s what you need to remember about hosts with human consciousnesses and the tests they undergo. The First Experiments Were in Season 2 The first human to submit to fidelity testing was James Delos, the founder of the Delos Corporation. As we learned in “Riddle of the Sphinx,” human Delos died of an incurable disease… but not before having a pivotal conversation with...
- 7/18/2022
- TV Insider
Lost bosses Carlton Cuse (arriving in full Imperial Stormtrooper regalia) and Damon Lindelof served up quite a treat at Entertainment Weekly‘s “Totally Lost: One Year Later” San Diego Comic-Con event on Friday. After some to-and-fro over whether to let some “never seen” Lost footage see the light of day, the duo agreed to show the crowd an edit of the Season 1 finale that they didn’t use, for fear that it revealed too much about how the series would eventually end.
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- 7/23/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
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