WANTED MAN ~

 

     Bob Dylan's

     May 24, 1941

     Duluth, MN

JOHNNY CASH, THE LIFE IN LYRICS ~

 

R E A D   M E

Little, Brown, 2023

JOHNNY CASH ( HURT ) ~

 

BIG RIVER~

 

ALL THE JOHNNY CASH YOU NEED ~

 

FURTHER ON UP THE ROAD ~

THE BEST JOHNNY CASH ~

FURTHER ON UP THE ROAD ~

THE MAN COMES AROUND ~

DEREK BETWEEN THE BIG DOGS ~

I'M ON FIRE ~

"IS IT ROLLING, BOB?"

B O B   J O H N S T O N   W/  F R I E N D S

( May 14, 1932, in Hillsboro, Texas ~ August 14, 2015 )

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/arts/music/bob-johnston-83-dies-produced-bob-dylan-and-johnny-cash-albums.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

photo: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

JOHNNY CASH ( LISTEN ) ~

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/24/johnny-cash-out-among-the-stars-exclusive-album-stream

JOHNNY CASH ~

To date, the best biography of Johnny Cash — even more bite to it than the musician's own autobiographies — the one to read, in book form (not laptop stuff). Take it acoustic.

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Johnny Cash, The Life
by Robert Hilburn
Little, Brown 2013

COWBOY ~

Gene Autry

"Canadian-born Robert Nobles spent part of his childhood in the Arizona desert, for which all lovers of Western music may be thankful. As "Bob Nolan", a founding member of the legendary Sons of the Pioneers, he gave us some of the finest poetry and most satisfying melodies in the history of the genre. The words to one of his early compositions, concerning the tumbling leaves of autumn, were misunderstood by 1933 radio fans of the Pioneer Trio, many of whom wrote in to request the song about the "tumbling weeds." Nolan did a quick rewrite and thus was born a cowboy classic. The Sons of the Pioneers recorded the song for Decca in 1934 as one side of their very first release, but it was Gene Autry's 1935 cover — with his slightly different arrangement — that earned the gold disc and brought Nolan's work to prominence. Later that same year it also served as the title for Gene's first starring feature film for Republic Pictures."

~ Jon Guyot Smith
from Gene Autry, Sing Cowboy Sing
(Rhino Records)



No offense, but we prefer Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers version :

The Sons of the Pioneers

Emmylou Harris

Billy the Kid

Billy Joe Shaver
© Matt Lankes

Cowboy Jack Clement

Mary McCaslin

It doesn't matter where you were born when it comes to the west — scholars have Billy the Kid born in an Irish neighborhood of New York City, as was Walter Brennan born of Irish immigrants in eastern Massachusetts; and Cisco Houston born on the east coast but raised in California ditto the Sierra Nevada climber Clarence King came out of posh Newport, Rhode Island (what's he doing here? Well, when I hear western songs I see mountains). Emmylou Harris is a southern belle; and Mary McCaslin, with a melody sure of the west, was born in Indianapolis. Patsy Montana's real name was Ruby Rose Blevins, pure Arkansas. Likewise the other Arkansas wonder Johnny Cash. Chicago's Frankie Laine was born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio, enough said. Of course both Bob Wills and Billy Joe Shaver are T-is-for-Texas; as Cowboy Jack Clement is Memphis, Peter La Farge all Southwest. June Carter Cash was born in Virginia and country music via the Carter Family at the age of ten. Marty Robbins was born outside of Phoenix, though I believe he was born with a golden voice.

HURT ~

Tom Petty, Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin (1996)

vanityfair.com

READER REDUX ~

More books! being read all the time and shared. This is a companion piece with the Nov. 2011 "Reader" short film. Since then the small studio room has changed. I just finished building a double face floor to ceiling book cabinet ready to engulf more books, 100 square feet to be precise. It was halfway finished when I made this new film. I remember once reading Jan Myrdal's autobiography where he measured his library in feet. I was a hungry young lad then reading a book-a-day and making a floral personal library. Books by-the-foot to a builder and a reader is music to the ears.

The authors: Kent Johnson, Gabriela Mistral, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gerard Malanga, Eudora Welty, William Maxwell, Alfred Jarry, Bill Deemer, Peter Berg, Benjamin Cawthra, Johnny Cash, Kitchen Cat, Clarice Lispector

film © bob arnold

EARTH ~

JUNE CARTER CASH

In 1961, returning to the studio after an absence of five years, June Carter Cash recorded this spooky noir gem. Saturday into early Sunday morning material.

She started singing at the age of ten in 1939 with the legendary Carter Family, which included her mother Maybelle Carter.

Versatile with guitar, banjo, harmonica and signature autoharp, June was also an actress, songwriter and dancer; others would remember a comedian. She stands out in the film The Apostle; being the second and lasting wife of Johnny Cash; and a distant cousin to President Jimmy Carter.

Virginia was her birth home.

June Carter Cash didn't last forever as her verve and spirit seemed to predict. She passed away only a few months before The Man in Black in 2003.

alanmesser.com