Johnny Cash died

Pearl

Sorry, no more to add for the moment. It's Breaking News on CNN.

Pearl

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1103505,00.html

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joey D

good luck so johnny, you were the only c & w legend I know who got busted for half a spliff found in your ashtray when you were pulled over by the cops once.

Pearl

From the Irish Times breaking news:

Johnny Cash has died in a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 71.

It is reported he had suffered respiratory failure following complications from diabetes. Cash had battled a disease of the nervous system, autonomic neuropathy, and pneumonia in recent years.

Cash's manager, Lou Robin, said the singer passed away at around 1 a.m. local time (6 a.m. Irish time) at Nashville's Baptist Hospital.

Cash (71) was released from hospital on Wednesday where he had been treated for an unspecified stomach ailment for two weeks.

He had been admitted to hospital on August 25th, forcing him to miss the MTV Video Music Awards in New York City, where his video for the song Hurt, a song about drug addiction written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, won the award for best cinematography.

The artist, known worldwide as "The Man in Black", was a towering figure in American music spanning country, rock and folk.

Dozens of hit records such as "Folsom Prison Blues", "I Walk the Line" and "A Boy Named Sue" defined Cash's persona: a haunted, dignified, resilient spokesman for the working man and downtrodden.


The Man In Black

Cash's deeply lined face fit well with his unsteady voice, which was limited in range but used to great effect to sing about prisoners, heartaches, and tales of everyday life.

He wrote much of his own material, and was among the first to record the songs of Bob Dylan and Kris Kristofferson. He had a long-time friendship and recorded with Dylan, who has cited Cash as a major influence.


Cash was also a peer of Elvis Presley when rock'n roll was born in Memphis in the 1950s, and he scored hits like "Cry! Cry! Cry!" during that era.

Cash won 11 Grammys - most recently in 2003, when "Give My Love To Rose" earned him honours as best male country vocal performance - and numerous Country Music Association awards. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1980 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

His second wife, June Carter Cash, who co-wrote the hit "Ring of Fire" and partnered her husband in hits such as "Jackson", died in May.

Saint-dotsie

r.i.p mr cash

Achille

just saw this on the lunchtime news.
i've been complaining for two weeks cos i lost his newest album.
now it's more annoying.

RIP Johnny

lamda

Ahhh today is a sad day..... first John Ritter fo Threes Company fame. then Cash...
How depressing:(

Rob Taylor

I was brought up on Johnny Cash, my dad being a big fan. Today's news is terrible, though not entirely unexpected. Apparently he was going to finish American Recordings V next week, so hopefully there'll be one more album from him. R.I.P., Man In Black.

Funky

RIP Johnny

ozone6280

Pearl will you do a tribute to Jonny Cash Sunday ?

butterfly

RIP an amazing talent, melodic&lyrical genius, an entire chapter of music history and a warm, strong and very real man.
this really is a terrible, terrible loss.

ozone6280

RIP Johnny you will be missed but never forgotten

Pearl

I wasn't on yesterday (studio still being painted) but I'll certainly do a tribute next Sunday.

James_M

Sad times.

You can't say the man in black won't leave a legacy behind though:

1957 - Johnny Cash and His Hot and Blue Guitar
1958 - Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
1959 - The Fabulous Johnny Cash
1959 - Hymns by Johnny Cash
1959 - Songs of Our Soil
1959 - Greatest Johnny Cash
1960 - Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams
1960 - Ride This Train
1960 - Now There Was A Song
1961 - Now, Here's Johnny Cash
1962 - Hymns from the Heart
1962 - The Sound of Johnny Cash
1962 - All Aboard the Blue Train
1963 - Blood, Sweat and Tears
1963 - Ring of Fire
1963 - The Christmas Spirit
1964 - Keep on the Sunny Side
1964 - I Walk the Line
1964 - The Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash
1964 - Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian
1965 - Orange Blossom Special
1965 - Ballads of the True West
1965 - Mean as Hell
1966 - Everybody Loves a Nut
1966 - Happiness is You
1967 - Johnny Cash & June Carter: Jackson
1967 - Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits
1967 - Carryin' on with Cash and Carter
1968 - From Sea to Shining Sea
1968 - At Folsom Prison
1968 - The Holy Land
1969 - At San Quentin
1969 - Johnny Cash
1969 - Original Golden Hits, Volumne I
1969 - Original Golden Hits, Volume II
1969 - Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers
1969 - Got Rhythm
1970 - Johnny Cash Sings Folsom Prison Blues
1970 - The Blue Train
1970 - Johnny Cash Sings the Greatest Hits
1970 - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: Jackson
1970 - Johnny Cash: The Legend
1970 - The Walls of a Prison
1970 - Sunday Down South
1970 - Showtime
1970 - Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
1970 - The Singing Storyteller
1970 - The World of Johnny Cash
1970 - Johnny Cash Sings I Walk the Line
1970 - The Rough Cut King of Country Music
1970 - The Johnny Cash Show
1970 - I Walk the Line - Movie Soundtrack
1970 - Little Fauss and Big Halsy - Movie Soundtrack
1971 - Man in Black
1971 - Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis Sing Hank Williams
1971 - Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music
1971 - The Johnny Cash Collection: Greatest Hits Volume II
1971 - Understand Your Man
1971 - Original Golden Hits, Volume III
1972 - A Thing Called Love
1972 - Give My Love to Rose
1972 - America
1972 - The Johnny Cash Songbook
1972 - Christmas: The Johnny Cash Family
1973 - The Gospel Road
1973 - Any Old Wind That Blows
1973 - Now, There Was a Song
1973 - The Fabulous Johnny Cash
1973 - Johnny Cash and His Woman
1973 - Sunday Morning Coming Down
1973 - Ballads of the American Indian
1974 - Ragged Old Flag
1974 - Five Feet High and Rising
1974 - The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me
1975 - Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories
1975 - The Children's Album
1975 - John R. Cash
1975 - Johnny Cash at Osteraker Pirsion
1975 - Look at Them Beans
1975 - Strawberry Cake
1976 - One Piece at a Time
1976 - Destination Victoria Station
1977 - The Last Gunfighter Ballad
1977 - The Rambler
1978 - I Would Like to See You Again
1978 - Greatest Hits, Volume III
1978 - Gone Girl
1979 - Johnny Cash - Silver
1979 - A Believer Sings the Truth
1980 - Rockabilly Blues
1980 - Classic Christmas
1981 - The Baron
1981 - Encore
1982 - The Survivors
1982 - A Believer Sings the Truth, Volume I
1982 - The Adventures of Johnny Cash
1983 - Johnny Cash - Biggest Hits
1983 - Johnny 99
1983 - Songs of Love and Life
1984 - I Believe
1985 - Highwayman
1986 - Rainbow
1986 - Class of '55: Cash, Perkins, Orbison & Lewis
1986 - Heroes: Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings
1986 - Believe in Him
1987 - Johnny Cash: Columbia Records 1958-1986
1987 - Johnny Cash is Coming to Town
1988 - Classic Cash
1988 - Water From the Wells of Home
1990 - Johnny Cash: Patriot
1990 - Boom Chicka Boom
1990 - Johnny Cash: The Man in Black 1954-1958
1991 - The Mystery of Life
1991 - Johnny Cash: The Man in Black 1959-1962
1991 - Come Along and Ride this Train
1992 - The Essential Johnny Cash
1994 - American Recordings
1995 - Highwaymen: The Road Goes on Forever
1996 - Unchained
1996 - Johnny Cash: The Hits
1998 - VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson
1998 - Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and San Quentin
1998 - Johnny Cash: Crazy Country
1998 - Johnny Cash: Timeless Inspiration
1998 - Johnny 99
1999 - Johnny Cash: Super Hits
1999 - Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins: I Walk the Line/Little Fauss and Big Halsy
1999 - Just as I am
1999 - Rickabilly Blues
1999 - Cash on Delivery: A Tribute
1999 - The Legendary Johnny Cash
1999 - Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: It's All in the Family
1999 - Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
1999 - Sixteen Biggest Hits
2000 - Love, God and Murder
2000 - At San Quentin
2000 - Super Hits
2000 - American III: Solitary Man
2001 - Sixteen Biggest Hits: Volumne II
2002 - American IV: The Man Comes Around

rueyn

A short lament for Johnny Cash:

http://www.irismagazine.net/articles/?display=756


-angela.