Thursday, January 8, 2009
Moving Pictures Golden Nugget: I Shot a Man in Cheatham Just to Watch Johnny Cash Play Live
Posted by Adam Gold on Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 3:03 PM
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I like Johnny Cash. I know it's not cool to say it, but he's, like, the real deal. I wish they would make a biopic in which they get a skinny guy with a hair-lip to play him, and that guy should also sing because there is no greater display of a legend's unique talent than having an actor learn how to imitate it in a matter of months. Watching that movie would be like watching Joaquin Phoenix dress up for Halloween and sing karaoke.
In 1976, the real man in black filmed a concert special--Johnny Cash and Friends: A Concert Behind Prison Walls--at the Tennesse State Prison in Nashville. This lesser-known hoosegow hoedown was an attempt to once again capitalize on the model of his successful late-'60's At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin albums. It also featured performances by Linda Ronstadt, Roy Clark and Foster Brooks. Videos of the special have just been uploaded to YouTube by user vcw180 and they are pretty sweet, sort of like a cross between the Johnny Cash TV Show and Lock Up: Raw. I'm posting a video of Cash singing "Jacob Green," and for the hell of it a video of Linda Rondstadt singing "Desperado" after the jump. They are both pretty sick. Notice how the audience is just passively sitting there? That's how you know they're in Nashville. Or prison.
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"I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I like Johnny Cash. I know it's not cool to say it, but he's, like, the real deal."
What the fuck are you talking about? Who let this guy in here?
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Indeed. Gold may not be from here, but you only need to live in Nashville for a half an hour or so to see about six dozen "CASH" stickers and half as many t-shirts. Not to mention all the plaques and street signs.
Welcome to Jokesville, daddio.
hey adam... any relation to the piano player at the top of the rondstadt clip??? "thank you for being a friend" and posting these..
Good Catch! Although there is no nepotism in effect as I, unfortunately, bear no blood relation to Andrew. At least that none that I'm aware of...yet.
Jaoquin did his own singing and guitar. He comes from a very musical family. Ever heard of River Phoenix? musician/actor.He avoided learning to play guitar all his life because his big brother was going to show him and he died before he could so it was a hard thing for him to do,which is why he had to learn right before he did the movie.(Jaoquin's own words in an interview) He has never really been skinny, nor has he ever had a hair lip. It is a congenital birth defect, that means he was born with it.No surgery to correct a hair lip, just born with a scar. You have to give a guy credit for not getting a scar like that fixed, especially in hollywood! I believe the acadamy awards thought otherwise about his performance. There is nothing wrong with Johnny Cash, but you can compliment someone without tearing someone else down.Sarcasm is just something people who have not mastered tact hide behind.
That was faux-outrage Gold! I'm not THAT daft! I enjoyed the movie, but like the Doors movie, it kind of glossed over some important shit, like Nickajack Cave and Cinnamon Hill and Bitter Tears and The Highwaymen. Hell why not throw in a cut from "Chicken in Black" just to show his lighter side?
Damn that BeeGee bastad and his arsonous ways!
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