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Interview
by Scott Sterling-Wilder
19-9-2003
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Johnny Cash RIP
Departure of the 'Man In Black'
Johnny Cash, one of the towering titans of modern music, died on 12 September in Nashville. He was 71 and recently a winner of an MTV award for his version of Nine Inch Nail’s ‘Hurt’, taken from his last album ‘American IV: The Man Comes Round’. In our review we recommended, “All music lovers should get a copy of ‘TMCR’, it is as near a masterpiece as a human can get.”
The original ‘Man In Black’, or The King Of Country, ruled the stages for 50 years and it’s reckoned that more than 1500 songs are his legacy, collected on some 70 albums and enjoyed by 50 million customers. One of all time great LPs is ‘Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison’ (1968).
His wife and music partner, June Carter Cash, passed on some four months ago which must have quickened his road out of life that had started in Kingsland, Arkansas, in the post Big Depression days. It took an Air Force posting in Germany before company of Sam Phillips Sun stable’s ‘The Million Dollar Quartet’ of Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley.
The man, who got re-introduced to younger fans via a guest spot on U2’s ‘Zooropa’ CD (‘93), was working on his ‘American’ series of LPs, ‘Volume 5’, due out next year. For this ‘edition’ he’s canned 50 tracks to assure prolonged enjoyment of these successful and critically acclaimed ‘themed’ discs.
“He had such a wealth of experience in his voice, heaven and hell and no one could touch him. He was the real thing,” is his great fan, Nick Cave’s verdict.
Scott Sterling-Wilder
19-9-2003
Johnny Cash 26 Feb 1932 – 12 Sept 2003
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