WTF: Johnny Cash Spins in his Grave

Joaquin the Line

Joaquin Phoenix is torn between two lovers in what he professes will be his last film. As he talks passionately about his new pursuits, it seems he's not torn between artistic muses. Movies are out, and music is in, Phoenix insists.
Now sporting a long, scraggly beard and scruffy hair, Phoenix has drawn online wisecracks about a look far removed from singer Cash's clean-cut stage appearance. The actor said it was not so much about copping a new image as distancing himself musically from Cash.
"I don't know that this is my look," Phoenix said. "I mean, I just have a beard."
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Cash's Folsom Prison Concert Prints Go On Sale

Johnny Cash made Folsom Prison famous in 1968 with a song that proclaims, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die."
The prison museum recently obtained photos from his legendary concert at the prison, where he performed in front of 2,000 inmates. The recording is part of Cash's live "At Folsom Prison" album. Copies of the photos taken at the show are now on sale at the museum.
"It is the first time in 40 years these pictures have been available to the public," the museum curator said.
The old photos surfaced last year from a newspaper reporter who covered the concert that day.
Although he had some problems with drug abuse during his career, Cash never spent time as an inmate in Folsom Prison.
The prison museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The prints of the photos cost $10 each.
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Johnny Cash Remixed

Happy Birthday Carlene Carter

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Johnny Cash is Spoken For

Roseanne Cash is not happy that country singer John Rich casually told a concert crowd recently that her dad, Johnny Cash, would have backed John McCain for president.
While performing at a recent McCain rally, Rich said:
"Somebody’s got to walk the line in the country. They’ve got to walk it unapologetically. And I’m sure Johnny Cash would have been a John McCain supporter if he was still around."

Roseanne responded via an angry statement:
"It is appalling to me that people still want to invoke my father’s name, five years after his death, to ascribe beliefs, ideals, values and loyalties to him that cannot possibly be determined, and to try to further their own agendas by doing so. … This is especially dangerous in the case of political affiliation."
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Roseanne's right!

Electric Hillbilly

Not everybody can tap into their dark side to combine influences from The Kinks to Johnny Cash. Billy Bob Thornton proves he’s no boot-scootin’ rookie at this game with his band, The Boxmasters. lots of sample music and stuff HERE
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MySpace HERE
live performance video HERE
CD available HERE

A Stronger Carlene Carter

The last time most folks heard about Carlene Carter, the news wasn't good -- in 2001, she and then-boyfriend Howie Epstein (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) spent the night in jail in New Mexico after being pulled over in a stolen truck with nearly three grams of heroin.
2003 would prove to be a devastating year for her, as her mother June Carter, her step-father Johnny Cash, her sister Rosey Carter, and her former beau Epstein all died within the space of a few months.
After all this, the mere fact that Carlene Carter is healthy and making music again seems surprising enough, so it's doubly impressive that 2008's Stronger is one of her best and most personal albums to date.
Los Angeles Times article HERE
listen to the album HERE
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Break your Rusty Cage and Run

Johnny Cash Receives Pardon

Starkville, Mississippi - Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival, a three day series of music and other events to honor Cash drew fans from as far away as California who flocked downtown to celebrate the life and legacy of Johnny Cash, who was jailed for public drunkenness in Starkville after a 1965 concert at Mississippi State University. Cash was picking flowers from a woman’s yard when he was arrested. Cash was pardoned for his crime during the festival.
Marshal Grant was Johnny Cash’s bass player the day Cash decided to go flower picking and said that day really affected the singer’s life.
“I was here with Johnny when he went to jail that morning and this is my first time being back in this town since that day. When Johnny got out that morning, his arrest played a big part in his life.”
So much so he wrote a song about the ordeal called, “Starkville City Jail.”

more at www.pardonjohnnycash.com

Merle and John

A little CASH for the Holidaze

For the first time in 30 years, vintage Johnny Cash TV specials are coming to DVD. On Nov. 13, Shout! Factory will release The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1976 and The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977. The 1976 show includes Roy Clark, Merle Travis, Barbara Mandrell and Billy Graham. The 1977 show includes an all-star tribute to Elvis Presley, who had passed away two months earlier. Taped at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House, it features Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison joining Cash on This Train Is Bound For Glory in memory of The King and more.