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"Johnny Cash"

Haven't listened to much of him, but what I've heard I love and I'm interested in more. Where's a good place to start?

Haven't listened to much of him, but what I've heard I love and I'm interested in more. Where's a good place to start?

Live at San Quentin Prison 1969.
Some of his best songs and a landmark gig, worth buying to hear him singing "San Quentin" and the inmates cheering and yelling to "I killed a man just to see him die"

Get there quick though, if it wasn't bad enough that everybody likes him when he died then every other person will suddenly be a big fan when the movie's released this year (with Whacking Phoenix as Cash)

Will do, thanks

£5.99 at HMV
[URL]http://www1.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=652850[/URL]

£8.99 from play
[URL]http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=CD&title=150787&p=34&g=48[/URL]

And it's steep, but if you were a Cash fan before he died and suddenly all his CDs were available instead of having to order them import...not bitter about that or anything...then a 5cd box set is the very best you'll ever hear
[URL]http://www1.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1&sku=129077[/URL]

And if you can, or if I see you on MSN, try to find his cover version of "One" by U2 and "Rusty Cage" by Soundgarden.
Genius.

I'm not the biggest fan of his own stuff as I don't really like the Country-Westerny sound, not heard much either.

Anyway, my mate put an album together of covers or it was a proper album which are all good. Hurt is excellent.

Not a country fan either, but Cash and Chip Taylor are some of the best singer/songwriters ever and the genre doesn't matter any.

And to summise why Cash was and is The Man in Black, here's a scan of the full page ad taken out when his album was nominated for an award by an industry that ignored him for years.

[URL]http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/Doug/doug.2003/030912/thefinger.jpg[/URL]

He's soooooo overrated.

And you're soooooo cool