I could tell you were a culturally insulated Yankee when you spelled dually "dooley".

dude, pick up the 5 disc johnny cash box set. i was never a fan before, then got it for christmas last year, i discovered that song then, and was hooked. he also does a great version of U2's One.

Ken, I am no yankee--but I figured no one would know what I was talking about if I spelled it that way. Ace merely transcribed my dumbed-down spelling.

Ace, this Johnny Cash character is worth your time. He is the favorite country musician of people who don't like country music--a title he took from Kenny Rogers, to everyone's relief.

Check out the 2004 Dawn of the Dead. Not only is it the best movie released this year, but it featured the song over the opening credits/montage of havoc at the beginning of the movie. Spooky as hell.

I just read my post, and had to think... I'm sorry, but Team America (FUCK YEAH!) is a close second...

I was inspired by Dawn of the Dead and an image of John Kerry.

Johnny Cash is great. "The man Comes Around" is an awesome collection of music. He does a remake of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" that outshines the original.

1. 28 Days Later is a great zombie flick.
2. "American IV: The Man Comes Around" also contains great covers of "Hurt" (Nine Inch Nails) and "Personal Jesus" (Depeche Mode).

Well, at least you "discovered" Johnny sooner than I discovered Townes Van Zandt. I was so enjoying his acoustic work on "A Gentle Evening with TVZ" when I was rudely advised that he's been dead for seven years. Damned!
At least I still have Eva.
Best,
Tim

Great Stuff, Ace. Thanks!

Check out the 2004 Dawn of the Dead. Not only is it the best movie released this year, but it featured the song over the opening credits/montage of havoc at the beginning of the movie. Spooky as hell.

Ummmm... didn't I just say that?

I feel like Jan Brady. Am I invisible? Have I no voice?

Johnny Cash Live Folsom Prison and his last album. It is great to compare the two works. Folsom Prison was recorded in 1967 and is very endgy. However his last album you can feel a man who knows he will meeting his maker soon. Both are excellant. Just got love a man who sings, "i shoot a man Reno, just to watch him die" but can also sing bible verse.
Ace you are Red Stater at heart, you will love Johnny!

Dear Johnny: More Kim Richards, less Helen Thomas.

Four Words: Sunday Morning Coming Down

Dude you, MUST get into Johnny Cash! His last album, the one containing this song, is a fine piece of work, but you should look at some of his earlier stuff too, when he was still in full voice. I particularly like his first CD with American Recordings, called, I believe, "American Recordings" (in a fit of originality.) It came out about 10 years ago or so, and won a Grammy.

Ace, I had seriously considered starting my own blog to discuss Miami Vice, D&D, right-wing politics, and country music. That was going to be the Ace Plus One. That was my Ace in the Hole.

Screw you.

Oh, and try some early Emmylou Harris. She's amazing and quite a looker to boot.

Everyone loves Johnny Cash, have yet to meet anyone who doesn't. I hate country, but love the Man in Black.

Message received. Johnny Cash = cool.

I've been playing When the Man Comes Around for like two hours now.

A great Johnny Cash song title, if not a great song (my dad had this on a Cash LP):

Dirty Old Egg Suckin' Dog

Its a fun tune...if he finds that dog suckin' eggs agin, he gonna send that dog to the henhouse in the sky, 'hear?

Jacked this from an email I got - another Jimmy Dean song re-done by J. Cash

I got into Cash after hearing him cover Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage."

And it was even MORE bitterly angry than the original! I was hooked.

Egg-Suckin' Dog is on the Folsom Prison record, already recommended, right alongside Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart.

The San Quentin record's worth getting too.