Damn, I wish this couple were still alive and in their prime

The second song is Ira Hayes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qMG-sjnSQY

i saw the man in black in 1962 and still have the images in my head after 45 years..he was so fucking cool all dressed in black and those guys rock`d

Can't see too well in my old age.

Johnny and June were wonderful people.

Wouldn't go in anyone's convenient little box,
Wouldn't wear a label worth a damn.
Didn't fit anywhere,
Belonged everywhere.
Punk kids cried when Cash died.

Johnny, we hardly knew ye.

:loveya:
dbt
Natalie was right. Get over it.

when I read your headline:

like the Carter family and Johnny Cash. Remember momma Maybelle Carter and the kids?

residence that was endowed by Maybelle Carter and bears her name. I go to visit two or three times a week, so Maybelle's name is always in front of me! One of her autoharps is in a glass case in the parlor there, btw. :-) My dad had several Carter family vinyl records and I grew up listening to their music. If you like them as much as I do, you might also enjoy this:

http://www.bluegrassworks.com/review.php?reviewID=98

"The excellent Nashville-based label Dualtone and the producer John Carter Cash, son of John and June, have done all of us the immensely kind favor of three CDs -- the one here reviewed, plus (A. P. and Sara's children) Janette & Joe Carter's Last of Their Kind and June Carter Cash's Wildwood Flower -- celebrating the first family of American roots music. In The Unbroken Circle top-flight performers from various genres - country, folk, bluegrass, pop - pay tribute to A. P., Sara, and Maybelle and some of the marvelous songs they recorded.

Though nearly everything on this album sounds just fine, the cut that is most likely to strike the ear and tear the heart is Johnny Cash's version of the traditional railroad ballad "Engine One-Forty-Three." (Also known as "The Wreck on the C&O" and "The F.F.V.," it grew out of a real-life
incident, an 1893 train wreck near Hinton, Virginia.) Literally the last thing Cash recorded before his death in September 2003, it is a song about a dying man, sung by a dying man. Even the most naïve listener will not fail to grasp that; Cash is singing as if his life depended on it, and it did. If Johnny Cash has meant anything to you in your life -- I can barely remember when he wasn't a part of mine -- it will overwhelm you. Here is a towering figure in our music, a man who through his marriage to June Carter literally wed his already considerable presence to an immortal musical family. His "Engine" is surely among the most chilling performances in all of recorded American music...."

Mid sixties. My mom knew the Carters they were just becoming famous when she quit the business. She liked really liked June I think she had a bit of mother hen syndrome concerning Johnny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ5gIhSIcMU&mode=related&search=

I really like the songs One Piece At a Time and A Boy Named Sue.

My Dad went to see the Johnny Cash film, Walk the Line, starring Joaquin Phoenix. He says Joaquin was good in the film. I've never seen Joaquin in any movies, but I've recently become a fan of River Phoenix, and have seen Explorers, Stand By Me and Running On Empty.

I loved the movie, Walk the Line.

This is my favorite video of a Cash song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0EQlQXoEo

It was one of the first songs that he ever wrote and was rebuffed my all of the record companies, He finally did it on one of his last albums produced by Rick Rubin.

I'd never heard it before. Makes me want to break out my gitfiddle.

I think I'll listen to Big River again.