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Thursday, December 08, 2005

I Stand Corrected: WWJCD?

In 1993 Johnny Cash sang "Happy Birthday" to me on my 21st birthday. This was before the Rick Rubin records came out-- he was playing the Wayne Newton Theater in Branson. Not the coolest gig, and though officially of age, I was several generations younger than the busloads of retired vacationers filling the seats around me. In any case, JC managed to transcend the setting-- under normal circumstances there is nothing cool about Branson, MO, but Johnny Cash managed to be very cool.

In the same way Walk the Line is so much better than it should have been. On paper (and in the trailers) it looks like a horribile Hollywood creation. But simply put, the movie is fantastic. It's not perfect (Ms. Witherspoon doesn't do June Carter's wackiness justice, and parts of the story were a bit tidy), but its faults are easily overlooked in the face of everything it does right.

At the Branson show 12 years ago, JC sang a "new" song. He didn't introduce it-- didn't say his ex-son-in-law wrote it for him-- didn't say it was going to be on a new record.. In fact there was no mention of a new record, although the first American Recording must have been in production at that time. In any case, the song stuck with me that night. Here it is:

Johnny Cash | The Beast in Me:

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4 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

ahem, indeed. shock and awe--that was my reaction. whoever put together the trailer i saw should be forever relieved of their duties.

standing corrected,
ss

3:14 PM

 
Blogger Prather said...

Excellent Show it was indeed. That show caused me to re-think a silly distaste of C&W music, and inspired me to see Wayne before he couldn't sing anymore.

Haven't seen the flick yet, but I have heard great things.

12:13 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've been to Branson before and I thought it was pretty cool and nice. Even some of the Branson hotels were pretty and relaxing.

3:57 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did you go to any other
Branson shows?

6:29 PM

 

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