He was saying goodbye. When hearing the song his daughter said to him "It sounds like you're saying goodbye." He told her "I am." This was his goodbye letter to all his fans. That one last swan song.
In 1983 I went to see Johnny play, it was a small theatre, I got there early hoping for an autograph, I wondered around a deserted parking lot waiting to see if he would arrive, I paused for a while to look at the view, I turned around & he was stood in front of me, Just me & Johnny Cash! I stuttered Mr Cash! He asked "Are You A Rockabilly Boy?" I was dressed like 1956 Johnny, "Yes Sir!" I said, He asked what I had in my bag, I took out the records, he signed them, Then he put his hand on my shoulder and asked "Do you have a ticket to get in Son?" Yes sir Mr. Cash I answered, & with that he was gone, The tour bus had been parked nearby & I guess he saw me walking around, Just a short meeting, I think about it often decades later
I'm willing to bet he remembered you and thought about you periodically too. It was a sincere interaction. People don't forget those. A celebrity remembered me 10+ years later when I got to see them again and ask (they even helped fill in the holes in the story of our interaction). We think we're insignificant to them. We're not.
Johnny Cash is in SIX Halls of Fame. Rock and Roll, Country Music, Nashville Songwriters, Gospel Music, Memphis Music, and the Rockabilly Hall of Fames.
When Johnny played this song for his daughter Roseanne, who is also a famous musician, he asked her what she thought. She said, “it sounds like you’re saying goodbye, dad.” He said, maybe I am.
By the time JC recorded this song we was nearly blind from cataracts and in considerable pain from complications from diabetes, but due to a life long struggle with prescription medication, even though he knew he was near death he refused to take any pain medication for fear of becoming addicted again. In his lifetime he sold over 90 million albums. His song, "I walk the Line", is rated #1 of the top 100 Country songs and #30 of Rolling Stones 500 most influential Rock songs of all time.
@@creinicke1000 As any addicted person knows you never overcome addiction, you are simply in a state of recovery for the rest of your life. The point being even at the end of his life, when using pain killers would have likely improved his quality of life, he stayed true to his sobriety. It's a testament to what he had become.
This hits you right in the feels. This is the best cover. Trent knew it new respect for Trent i was never a fan of Trent but when Johnny's cover was heard by Trent he gave it to Johnny.
The most touching part to me personally...at the very very end...when he closes the piano, the way he runs his hand over the lid gets me every time. That's a man saying goodbye to something he spent a lifetime loving dearly.
Absolute greatest cover song of all time. I've lost both parents and an older brother and I'm 53 now. Your perspective changes when you and your siblings are now at the top of the family and knowing that we are on deck. Definitely reflect much more than I used to and have several regrets, but you cannot change them, you can only try to be better. While you push on as a man and try to be an example, you really start to understand your mortality in a way you never did before. This song gets me every time.
The man is a legend for a reason. Checkout his catalog and his bio. Started life with next to nothing and gained everything one could want for only realize in the end we all return to the earth. Worldly possessions mean nothing in the end.
My best friend ( a cast member from Hee Haw and a good friend of Johnny's) was at his wife June's funeral. She knelt down by Johnny at the funeral and said, "Darlin', how are you holding up?" He said, "Lu, I'll be gone in six months." He was gone in four.
June was clearly the center of his soul and gave him balance and solace, not just love and passion. He once was asked his definition of paradise. Johnny replied, "This morning, with her, having coffee."
God's Gonna Cut You Down was recorded by Johnny before he did Hurt. He never touched a piano or guitar after you see him close the cover at the end of Hurt. They had a good idea of how to produce Hurt but he was not sure of what kind of video for God's Gonna Cut You Down. June died four months after they finished up Hurt, Johnny died seven months after Hurt was produced. After he passed, a group of true music stars got together to pay tribute to Johnny. It was produced and released after Johnny died.
You might enjoy watching the movie "Walk The Line", based on two Johnny Cash autobiographies. A great JC video is one of Johnny Performing "Man In Black" live. Johnny had spent time talking with students at Vanderbilt University and wrote the song as a result of those conversations. In fact, Johnny had just finished the last rewrite of the song, which Johnny explains in the opening of the video.
This has to be one of the most emotionally charged songs ever, in my opinion. I always get emotional listening to it and watching the video, one line always gets to me 'everyone I know goes away in the end', it's so heartrending. It's a beautiful song and he does it so well.
Such an emotional song. I have heard it described as "a valentine to sufferers" whether about addiction, depression, death or wars etc. it checks all the boxes. I don't think anyone could perform this as well as Cash and pack the same punch. Thanks guys for your reaction and comments. Very moving💔
I don't know for sure, but the story goes: Trent Reznor, nine inch nails lead singer, was mad when he heard someone coveted this, then he hears it and said "it's his now'
He took and already good song and gave it more depth from an old man at the end of his life. He made it his own and the composed Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, did not mind after hearing it. Do listen to the original from the album The Downward Spiral. The photo was of his mother, his wife June Carter cash is seen walking with him in the video filmed in February 2003 and she died on May 15 of that year and Jonny followed 7 months later on September 12th at age 71.
I'm a native Arkansan, and Johnny Cash grew up in eastern Arkansas, not far from where I was born. I was very familiar with him, having grown up in a family that loved country music. For several years, I worked at a small country radio station. This video is profoundly moving; to see Johnny nearing the end of his life, covering a NIN song and absolutely owning it, is one of most melancholy moments in popular music history. It has moved me to tears more than once.
the picture was his mother....his wife is in the video with him though....this was his last music video & his album got nominated for awards....Johnny & June passed away very close to each other....his daughter actually made that comment to him about it sounding like he was saying goodbye & he said yes it is
Props to Rick Rubin who said Johnny wanted me to "run tape" on every song and conversations, he and Rick had during this time. Rubin went on to say that Johnny felt if he wasn't recording, he was going to die. In this video Rubin captured Cash's true essence. By this time Cash's diabetes had ravenged his eye sight and many internal organs.
I just discovered this cover a couple of years ago. It is one of the deepest songs I have ever heard. His voice is everything. He really said goodbye to everyone. Sad and beautiful.
This was a goodbye song. His wife died about three months after the song was sung and he died about three months later. From what I have heard, he wanted to outlive his wife so that she wouldn't feel the pain of losing him. In my opinion, this version is far better than the original. I have heard that when he closed the piano at the end of this song, he never opened it again. It was the last song on his last album.
Oh man. This song gets me every time. I am the age where I knew of his fame in awards, songs and movies. In the end after all the fame & money and he would rather have nothing than have his wife die. He loved his wife June Carter very much. He died soon after she did.
There’s such a different feel when a younger person sings “I hurt myself today to see if I still feel” and when someone in Mr. Cash’s age sings it. He owned it. And almost every time he covered someone’s song? It became his. He is my standard of a voice.
This is such an amazing cover to a great song! Trent to this day plays this song with the lyrics that Johnny altered! It's become like a tribute to Johnny!
This was his last album before his death. Great album. Elvis recorded Run On first, if I am not mistaken. Elvis's is great and always my favorite but Johnny was great also. R.I.P to both
Johnny looked much older than his 71 years! You need to listen to the lyrics of Man in Black. Why is it okay to laugh when you are happy but not OK to cry when you are down?
He was best friends with other superstars that had passed before him. Losing everyone around you or in your circle can leave you lost. I know this feeling. All the friends I grew up with except for 2 have all passed. There used to be 11 of us on the block. It's devastating, and I can't imagine how hard it is for those people who live to their 100s.
Like everyone else, Mr. Cash has made mistakes. Unlike most other people, he's shared that *fact* with the world through this song and hasn't attempted to *hide* his mistakes. "Everyone I know goes away in the end." :D Everyone you *don't* know goes away in the end too. To me there's nothing depressing about this song - I think it's very useful to learn while you're young that "Good health simply means that you're dying at the slowest rate possible".
This is nine inch nails. Trent tensor my spelling sucks but he said Johnny truly sang it. He had lost is wife a yr before and his heart ache shows. He died shortly after. Best cover ever
Johnny Cash did indeed have a song called Ring of Fire. It was written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore and got its influence from a poem. The song was originally released by June Carter's sister, but later, Johnny released his rendition of the song. The song was written around the time that Johnny and June Carter were becoming smitten with each other. They both divorced and then married each other. The song was a huge hit for Johnny. th-cam.com/video/5WyLhwYFgmk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=p9kiQqV5jbP2r1lo Home Free, the a Capella group also did a cover of Ring of Fire (featuring Avi Kaplan from Pentatonix fame) that became a huge hit for them as well. Both Avi and Tim Faust are arguably two of the deepest bass singers out there. They have sort of a battle of the bass going on. The song is amazing and is definitely worth a listen. th-cam.com/video/0l3dsHCScxU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tVJ4wNqxltMYeMGU Enjoy!
Recorded in late 2002. The video was filmed in February 2003. It was released on March 2003. His wife, seen watching onnthe stairs, died on May 15, 2003. He followed on September 12, 2003. Producer Rick Rubin introduced him to the song. Johnny was 71. His wife, June Carter is also a country music legend. Trent wasn't originally happy about him doing a cover of his most petsonal song. Then he watched the video.
Watched you guys react to this on BP's channel awhile back. Good to re-watch here and now. It is an emotional powerful performance for sure. Having two of my favorite TH-cam reactors sitting next to each other for the experience - sweet! If you haven't already done it, "A Boy Named Sue" is a Johnny Cash song you might really enjoy. Hits a bit on what it means to be a man and a dad. 😉
2 strong men sharing here how they feel about one of the most iconic stars of our century singing a goodbye song, relating it on how it ties in to their lives today. It was very connecting. Thanks.
From what i remember his wife had just passed it is such a beautiful song it reminds me of my grandmother just before she died at 97 all her friends had died her 2 husbands had passed and she was tired of life
Both of you are right and both of you MUST listen to much more Johnny. Try Personal Jesus and One as other amazing covers he did. Folsom Prison Blues, Delia, Man in Black, Boy Named Sue, I've Been Everywhere, etc
Had the privilege of seeing him in concert, not long after he had taken June Carter as his wife. Of course she and the Carter Family were there in the same concert. This song really hits hard. It is clear that he was saying goodbye. You guys are amazing. It was great tuning in. Glad I came by to watch. As for that concert, my new wife and our new baby boy were there with me. A joyous occasion. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Johnny Cash gives this song a depth and deeper meaning than Trent could have at the time he wrote it. The lines which refer 'my sweetest friend' take on a second meaning when you consider that for every country album Johnny Cash released he also released a gospel album, for him his god was his sweetest friend. Also worth noting is that the original version has the lyrics 'my empire of sh*t' but Johnny changed it to 'my empire of dirt' because he didn't feel the need to cuss/curse to get the point across.
The entire album (When The Man Comes Around) this song is from is a masterpiece and a perfect finale to Cash's legendary career. It is also part the resurgence he had in the later years of his life that started in 1994 when he started working with legendary producer Rick Rubin.
Elvis Presley was only the 2nd person to be inducted into both the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame and the Country music Hall of Fame. Johnny Cash was the first. The "American Recordings" 1-4 series of albums, produced by Rick Rubin (watch Rick Rubin talk about Cash and making those albums with him), are absolutely stunning
Johnny had so many songs: Folsom Prison Blues, A Boy Named Sue, Ira Hayes, Sunday Morning Coming Down, 5 Feet High and Rising, Delia, Pickin' Time, Big River, The Long Black Veil, Bad News, One Piece at a Time, Jackson, I've Been Everywhere, Ring of Fire, The Legend of John Henry, Casey Jones, and Frankie and Johnny.
Doesn't matter what type of music you like,most people loved and respected Johnny and his wife June Carter Cash,It is well worth checking out more from Johnny.I would like to see the original of this song.
Johnny struggled with drugs in the Sixties. In the Seventies, he would come on stage towards the end of the Billy Graham crusades and do a gospel song or two and speak for a minute.
Beautiful reaction to an amazing song. Johnny Cash is amazing. So much of his work is just so good. BP - you need to react to AR's suggestion of God's Gonna Cut you down.. of you goth react to it together. great song and so many big stars have camos.. great stuff..
Great reaction you 2, to a very effective performance from The Man In Black. To break up the sombre mood, another great one of of JC's songs was "Ring Of Fire" He refused to allow it to be used to advertise a hemorrhoid treatment. Keep Reacting!
FYI, he was born/raised in Arkansas. I have a relation to him distantly in my family tree as a matter of fact and yes, both my parents were born/raised in Arkansas as well. Glen Campbell also hails from the same state too, and also Jim Ed Brown, who btw is my Dad's 1st cousin. All are in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
This is like starting with the last page of a book. You guys need to go back to the beginning to fully understand the emotion behind this version of this song
We all face this challenge of providing… It is such a tough balance, but I will tell you you have no greater commodity than the relationship with your children. Your kids would rather that you guys ate oatmeal and struggled, but you worked around the corner and saw them at night-than live in a mansion and have a hole in them for their father. This is just universally true.
Right before he died….he was saying goodbye….watch him close the piano like a casket and touch it for the last time. That was his mom in the picture , his wife on the stairs.. Tough old man saying goodbye
Johnny Cash together with Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins singing "This Train" as a tribute to Elvis on the Johnny Cash show in 1977. Please react to it. Or Johnny on Sesame Street doing a duet with Oscar the Grouch singing "Dirty Dan".
I'm a 64 yr. old man and my eyes leaked with this song. (I have heard it before) When we are born, we bring into this world nothing, and we leave the same way; you can't take it with you. Let me adjust my last comment a bit; we do bring with us Gods love, and as is said in the movie "Ghost", with Patrick Swayze; he says, "The love, you take it with you". (I believe this!) There is another "Good-bye" song that I really think you should react to, which I'm willing to bet that your eyes will leak when you hear it. It is, "I'm Not Going to Miss You" by Glenn Campbell; I think it hits harder than "Hurt". I think you will figure out what it is about when you hear it; I don't want to give any spoilers. I will say, it makes me think of my grandma in her last few years; she went through the same. Love you guys, together and separately; I follow you both. "Live Life with Love"!!!
Love you guys. Also the Westside Connection(Ice Cube, WC, and Mack 10) song "The Gangsta, The Killa, and the Dope Dealer" uses the Nine Inch Nails sample.
I believe June died just after filming this video… Such a powerful performance and song. It can’t have been easy to do. 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Thank you for doing this together. 🙏😊
This song me ball like a baby. Not gonna hide it. It was emotional. Knowing his life and then he died actually before it was released. Hatd to see him sonilf and shakey. He was a mans man
The song you quoted God's gonna cut you down was released posthumously 3 years after Johnny died. The video features celebrities lip syncing along to it.
Johnny Cash covered this it was originally done by Nin inch nails. That's also very good but I love a bunch of his songs and his story getting into music.
Picture on the wall was a picture of his mother. Nine inch nails wrote the song and after they put it out. He said he was sitting in a diner and he realized he wrote the song about Johnny Cash. It wasn't his song. He said that I wrote that song about Johnny Cash and did not realize it.
Guys legendary Hip Hop Producer talked Johnny into recording this song… they had recorded the American Series over the last few years of Johnny’s life… Full Circle and 1 Degree of Separation from what y’all do. God Bless
I saw this back in the day, when Cash first released it. It was clear it was his funeral song...and for a few years I couldn't listen to it or else I might have done the thing...full of broken thoughts I could not repair...this was when? 2003 or something? I was driving Suburbans for a Mortuary Service Company, saw this music vid on the Country Music Television channel that was always playing in the embalming room. The chief embalmer was a big country fan. And I was like 19. Magnificent piece of music, but a bit too real. Otherwisee, I only knew Cash from the Sarah Connor Chronicles "The man Comes to Town".
He was saying goodbye.
When hearing the song his daughter said to him "It sounds like you're saying goodbye." He told her "I am."
This was his goodbye letter to all his fans. That one last swan song.
i see what you did there.. cash's great columbo episode 'swan song'
His song for everyone else was God's Gonna Cut You Down.
I believe the picture was actually his mom. His wife is in the video. She passed about 4 months later and then within months, he passed.
That is his mom in the picture. And yes, that is his wife in the video, but she passed before he did.
In 1983 I went to see Johnny play, it was a small theatre, I got there early hoping for an autograph, I wondered around a deserted parking lot waiting to see if he would arrive, I paused for a while to look at the view, I turned around & he was stood in front of me, Just me & Johnny Cash! I stuttered Mr Cash! He asked "Are You A Rockabilly Boy?" I was dressed like 1956 Johnny, "Yes Sir!" I said, He asked what I had in my bag, I took out the records, he signed them, Then he put his hand on my shoulder and asked "Do you have a ticket to get in Son?" Yes sir Mr. Cash I answered, & with that he was gone, The tour bus had been parked nearby & I guess he saw me walking around, Just a short meeting, I think about it often decades later
You were hoping for an autograph. He was looking for a friend.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
That's a great story 😊
I'm willing to bet he remembered you and thought about you periodically too. It was a sincere interaction. People don't forget those.
A celebrity remembered me 10+ years later when I got to see them again and ask (they even helped fill in the holes in the story of our interaction). We think we're insignificant to them. We're not.
Johnny Cash is in SIX Halls of Fame. Rock and Roll, Country Music, Nashville Songwriters, Gospel Music, Memphis Music, and the Rockabilly Hall of Fames.
The piano lid coming down at the end is like a coffin closing.
exactly.
When Johnny played this song for his daughter Roseanne, who is also a famous musician, he asked her what she thought. She said, “it sounds like you’re saying goodbye, dad.” He said, maybe I am.
By the time JC recorded this song we was nearly blind from cataracts and in considerable pain from complications from diabetes, but due to a life long struggle with prescription medication, even though he knew he was near death he refused to take any pain medication for fear of becoming addicted again.
In his lifetime he sold over 90 million albums. His song, "I walk the Line", is rated #1 of the top 100 Country songs and #30 of Rolling Stones 500 most influential Rock songs of all time.
Didn't he overcome additions.. so very understandable why he wouldn't want to go back to that.
@@creinicke1000 As any addicted person knows you never overcome addiction, you are simply in a state of recovery for the rest of your life. The point being even at the end of his life, when using pain killers would have likely improved his quality of life, he stayed true to his sobriety. It's a testament to what he had become.
This hits you right in the feels. This is the best cover. Trent knew it new respect for Trent i was never a fan of Trent but when Johnny's cover was heard by Trent he gave it to Johnny.
The most touching part to me personally...at the very very end...when he closes the piano, the way he runs his hand over the lid gets me every time. That's a man saying goodbye to something he spent a lifetime loving dearly.
Yes! Reminds me of someone touching a casket/coffin.
Trent Reznor (NIN) cried when he heard Johnny's rendition, that's how powerful this song is
Trent also stated it wasn't his song anymore
And Trent said. “This is no longer our song”
@@francismcknight724 AR said as much in the video.
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@@robertbootier8223 No. You missed the point. That was his original response. However, what others posted were his longer, reflected thoughts.
That man went thru hell and back during his lifetime but came out on the other side at peace...❤😢
Absolute greatest cover song of all time. I've lost both parents and an older brother and I'm 53 now. Your perspective changes when you and your siblings are now at the top of the family and knowing that we are on deck. Definitely reflect much more than I used to and have several regrets, but you cannot change them, you can only try to be better. While you push on as a man and try to be an example, you really start to understand your mortality in a way you never did before. This song gets me every time.
Feel ya. Lost mom/dad/sister in about 4 years. So fucking hard being alone
The man is a legend for a reason. Checkout his catalog and his bio. Started life with next to nothing and gained everything one could want for only realize in the end we all return to the earth. Worldly possessions mean nothing in the end.
My best friend ( a cast member from Hee Haw and a good friend of Johnny's) was at his wife June's funeral. She knelt down by Johnny at the funeral and said, "Darlin', how are you holding up?" He said, "Lu, I'll be gone in six months." He was gone in four.
June was clearly the center of his soul and gave him balance and solace, not just love and passion. He once was asked his definition of paradise. Johnny replied, "This morning, with her, having coffee."
God's Gonna Cut You Down was recorded by Johnny before he did Hurt. He never touched a piano or guitar after you see him close the cover at the end of Hurt.
They had a good idea of how to produce Hurt but he was not sure of what kind of video for God's Gonna Cut You Down.
June died four months after they finished up Hurt, Johnny died seven months after Hurt was produced.
After he passed, a group of true music stars got together to pay tribute to Johnny. It was produced and released after Johnny died.
You might enjoy watching the movie "Walk The Line", based on two Johnny Cash autobiographies. A great JC video is one of Johnny Performing "Man In Black" live. Johnny had spent time talking with students at Vanderbilt University and wrote the song as a result of those conversations. In fact, Johnny had just finished the last rewrite of the song, which Johnny explains in the opening of the video.
Johnny's wife, June Carter Cash, was a country artist from a family dynasty in country music. June appears in the video on the stairs behind him.
She was funnier than him too.
Many watching this video don't realize all those cute scenes were from movies that he did. He was such a multi talented man.
Thanks to Rick Rubin for repeatedly pushing this song on Johnny.
This has to be one of the most emotionally charged songs ever, in my opinion. I always get emotional listening to it and watching the video, one line always gets to me 'everyone I know goes away in the end', it's so heartrending. It's a beautiful song and he does it so well.
picture was of his mother.
His wife is standing on steps, and you see her in clips. They were both icons in country music.
I thought the picture was of his wife and the lady on the stairs was his daughter?
June Carter cash.his wife
Oh yes, the frame picture with Mrs Carrie.. , she is in the red shirt, yes mam
Such an emotional song. I have heard it described as "a valentine to sufferers" whether about addiction, depression, death or wars etc. it checks all the boxes. I don't think anyone could perform this as well as Cash and pack the same punch. Thanks guys for your reaction and comments. Very moving💔
I don't know for sure, but the story goes: Trent Reznor, nine inch nails lead singer, was mad when he heard someone coveted this, then he hears it and said "it's his now'
the picture was of his mother, his wife is later on the stairs.
Rosanne Cash is his daughter with first wife. Listen to her song “Seven Year Ache”. It is beautiful.
I always liked Tennessee flat top box!.
He took and already good song and gave it more depth from an old man at the end of his life. He made it his own and the composed Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, did not mind after hearing it. Do listen to the original from the album The Downward Spiral.
The photo was of his mother, his wife June Carter cash is seen walking with him in the video filmed in February 2003 and she died on May 15 of that year and Jonny followed 7 months later on September 12th at age 71.
These are the facts, thanks.
I'm a native Arkansan, and Johnny Cash grew up in eastern Arkansas, not far from where I was born. I was very familiar with him, having grown up in a family that loved country music. For several years, I worked at a small country radio station. This video is profoundly moving; to see Johnny nearing the end of his life, covering a NIN song and absolutely owning it, is one of most melancholy moments in popular music history. It has moved me to tears more than once.
the picture was his mother....his wife is in the video with him though....this was his last music video & his album got nominated for awards....Johnny & June passed away very close to each other....his daughter actually made that comment to him about it sounding like he was saying goodbye & he said yes it is
Props to Rick Rubin who said Johnny wanted me to "run tape" on every song and conversations, he and Rick had during this time. Rubin went on to say that Johnny felt if he wasn't recording, he was going to die. In this video Rubin captured Cash's true essence. By this time Cash's diabetes had ravenged his eye sight and many internal organs.
I just discovered this cover a couple of years ago. It is one of the deepest songs I have ever heard. His voice is everything.
He really said goodbye to everyone. Sad and beautiful.
The song hits more and more every time you hear it.
This was a goodbye song. His wife died about three months after the song was sung and he died about three months later. From what I have heard, he wanted to outlive his wife so that she wouldn't feel the pain of losing him. In my opinion, this version is far better than the original.
I have heard that when he closed the piano at the end of this song, he never opened it again. It was the last song on his last album.
Oh man. This song gets me every time. I am the age where I knew of his fame in awards, songs and movies. In the end after all the fame & money and he would rather have nothing than have his wife die. He loved his wife June Carter very much. He died soon after she did.
There’s such a different feel when a younger person sings “I hurt myself today to see if I still feel” and when someone in Mr. Cash’s age sings it. He owned it. And almost every time he covered someone’s song? It became his. He is my standard of a voice.
It is amazing to watch people discover Johnny Cash. Hurt, hurts
This is such an amazing cover to a great song! Trent to this day plays this song with the lyrics that Johnny altered! It's become like a tribute to Johnny!
Yes, the original to give this one context!
This was his last album before his death. Great album. Elvis recorded Run On first, if I am not mistaken. Elvis's is great and always my favorite but Johnny was great also. R.I.P to both
Johnny looked much older than his 71 years! You need to listen to the lyrics of Man in Black.
Why is it okay to laugh when you are happy but not OK to cry when you are down?
He was best friends with other superstars that had passed before him. Losing everyone around you or in your circle can leave you lost. I know this feeling. All the friends I grew up with except for 2 have all passed. There used to be 11 of us on the block. It's devastating, and I can't imagine how hard it is for those people who live to their 100s.
i love that BP is always showing people the amazingness of Cash but doesn’t know his most famous song 😂😂 Sunday Morning Coming Down is my favorite
I remember when this was released. We were all mourning his death, and hearing him say goodbye
I was crying before even starting the video back then when it came out.
Like everyone else, Mr. Cash has made mistakes. Unlike most other people, he's shared that *fact* with the world through this song and hasn't attempted to *hide* his mistakes. "Everyone I know goes away in the end." :D Everyone you *don't* know goes away in the end too. To me there's nothing depressing about this song - I think it's very useful to learn while you're young that "Good health simply means that you're dying at the slowest rate possible".
This is nine inch nails. Trent tensor my spelling sucks but he said Johnny truly sang it. He had lost is wife a yr before and his heart ache shows. He died shortly after. Best cover ever
Johnny Cash did indeed have a song called Ring of Fire. It was written by June Carter and Merle Kilgore and got its influence from a poem. The song was originally released by June Carter's sister, but later, Johnny released his rendition of the song. The song was written around the time that Johnny and June Carter were becoming smitten with each other. They both divorced and then married each other. The song was a huge hit for Johnny.
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Home Free, the a Capella group also did a cover of Ring of Fire (featuring Avi Kaplan from Pentatonix fame) that became a huge hit for them as well. Both Avi and Tim Faust are arguably two of the deepest bass singers out there. They have sort of a battle of the bass going on. The song is amazing and is definitely worth a listen.
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Enjoy!
Recorded in late 2002. The video was filmed in February 2003. It was released on March 2003. His wife, seen watching onnthe stairs, died on May 15, 2003. He followed on September 12, 2003. Producer Rick Rubin introduced him to the song. Johnny was 71. His wife, June Carter is also a country music legend.
Trent wasn't originally happy about him doing a cover of his most petsonal song. Then he watched the video.
“You’re bucket is full. So just let it out so you can fill it back up again.” Brilliant.
older stuff of his "sunday morning coming down ", "boy named sue"," ballad of ira hayes " just to start
Watched you guys react to this on BP's channel awhile back. Good to re-watch here and now. It is an emotional powerful performance for sure. Having two of my favorite TH-cam reactors sitting next to each other for the experience - sweet! If you haven't already done it, "A Boy Named Sue" is a Johnny Cash song you might really enjoy. Hits a bit on what it means to be a man and a dad. 😉
yes, check on the original
When shuts the piano and runs his hands across it. If you listened to him and loved his music it should make you shed a tear.
2 strong men sharing here how they feel about one of the most iconic stars of our century singing a goodbye song, relating it on how it ties in to their lives today. It was very connecting. Thanks.
From what i remember his wife had just passed it is such a beautiful song it reminds me of my grandmother just before she died at 97 all her friends had died her 2 husbands had passed and she was tired of life
Both of you are right and both of you MUST listen to much more Johnny. Try Personal Jesus and One as other amazing covers he did. Folsom Prison Blues, Delia, Man in Black, Boy Named Sue, I've Been Everywhere, etc
Had the privilege of seeing him in concert, not long after he had taken June Carter as his wife. Of course she and the Carter Family were there in the same concert. This song really hits hard. It is clear that he was saying goodbye.
You guys are amazing. It was great tuning in. Glad I came by to watch.
As for that concert, my new wife and our new baby boy were there with me. A joyous occasion.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
Johnny Cash gives this song a depth and deeper meaning than Trent could have at the time he wrote it. The lines which refer 'my sweetest friend' take on a second meaning when you consider that for every country album Johnny Cash released he also released a gospel album, for him his god was his sweetest friend. Also worth noting is that the original version has the lyrics 'my empire of sh*t' but Johnny changed it to 'my empire of dirt' because he didn't feel the need to cuss/curse to get the point across.
That man was a force of nature. He took what was throne at him, and stood proud. Different kind of being from what we now have.
The entire album (When The Man Comes Around) this song is from is a masterpiece and a perfect finale to Cash's legendary career. It is also part the resurgence he had in the later years of his life that started in 1994 when he started working with legendary producer Rick Rubin.
Elvis Presley was only the 2nd person to be inducted into both the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame and the Country music Hall of Fame.
Johnny Cash was the first.
The "American Recordings" 1-4 series of albums, produced by Rick Rubin (watch Rick Rubin talk about Cash and making those albums with him), are absolutely stunning
Johnny had so many songs: Folsom Prison Blues, A Boy Named Sue, Ira Hayes, Sunday Morning Coming Down, 5 Feet High and Rising, Delia, Pickin' Time, Big River, The Long Black Veil, Bad News, One Piece at a Time, Jackson, I've Been Everywhere, Ring of Fire, The Legend of John Henry, Casey Jones, and Frankie and Johnny.
Doesn't matter what type of music you like,most people loved and respected Johnny and his wife June Carter Cash,It is well worth checking out more from Johnny.I would like to see the original of this song.
Johnny struggled with drugs in the Sixties. In the Seventies, he would come on stage towards the end of the Billy Graham crusades and do a gospel song or two and speak for a minute.
Yes, for the original.
Beautiful reaction to an amazing song. Johnny Cash is amazing. So much of his work is just so good. BP - you need to react to AR's suggestion of God's Gonna Cut you down.. of you goth react to it together. great song and so many big stars have camos.. great stuff..
We all know that thing that brings "man" tears. For me it's honestly! I have shed a tear or 10 with this song at different times. Without any shame!
His daughter said it sounds like your eulogy he said it is
Great reaction you 2, to a very effective performance from The Man In Black.
To break up the sombre mood, another great one of of JC's songs was "Ring Of Fire"
He refused to allow it to be used to advertise a hemorrhoid treatment. Keep Reacting!
FYI, he was born/raised in Arkansas. I have a relation to him distantly in my family tree as a matter of fact and yes, both my parents were born/raised in Arkansas as well. Glen Campbell also hails from the same state too, and also Jim Ed Brown, who btw is my Dad's 1st cousin. All are in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
yes to the original
I’m still hearing this song through the prism of addiction… may god help me hear it as an old man 🙏
This is like starting with the last page of a book. You guys need to go back to the beginning to fully understand the emotion behind this version of this song
"Nashville" demanded that their artists have a museum. So Johnny made one that was not open to the public.
We all face this challenge of providing… It is such a tough balance, but I will tell you you have no greater commodity than the relationship with your children. Your kids would rather that you guys ate oatmeal and struggled, but you worked around the corner and saw them at night-than live in a mansion and have a hole in them for their father. This is just universally true.
Some might call it old school, but "Keeping it Together" or being "Professional" was the ideal.
Right before he died….he was saying goodbye….watch him close the piano like a casket and touch it for the last time. That was his mom in the picture , his wife on the stairs.. Tough old man saying goodbye
Johnny Cash together with Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins singing "This Train" as a tribute to Elvis on the Johnny Cash show in 1977. Please react to it. Or Johnny on Sesame Street doing a duet with Oscar the Grouch singing "Dirty Dan".
I'm a 64 yr. old man and my eyes leaked with this song. (I have heard it before) When we are born, we bring into this world nothing, and we leave the same way; you can't take it with you. Let me adjust my last comment a bit; we do bring with us Gods love, and as is said in the movie "Ghost", with Patrick Swayze; he says, "The love, you take it with you". (I believe this!) There is another "Good-bye" song that I really think you should react to, which I'm willing to bet that your eyes will leak when you hear it. It is, "I'm Not Going to Miss You" by Glenn Campbell; I think it hits harder than "Hurt". I think you will figure out what it is about when you hear it; I don't want to give any spoilers. I will say, it makes me think of my grandma in her last few years; she went through the same. Love you guys, together and separately; I follow you both. "Live Life with Love"!!!
Love you guys. Also the Westside Connection(Ice Cube, WC, and Mack 10) song "The Gangsta, The Killa, and the Dope Dealer" uses the Nine Inch Nails sample.
I believe his wife passed right before he did.
About a week after, I think. Johnny died and then I think June died about a week later.
about 4 months before him, during heart surgery.
@@galerios1 June died about 4 months before JC, during heart surgery.
I believe June died just after filming this video…
Such a powerful performance and song. It can’t have been easy to do. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you for doing this together. 🙏😊
First picture shown was his mother.
His daughter asked if this was goodbye. Mom in the picture. Wife at the stairs. She died and then johnny died.
I jear the opening and tears. Such a beautiful piece of art to have left behind to touch on such a human experience. 💯 yes to the original
This song me ball like a baby. Not gonna hide it. It was emotional. Knowing his life and then he died actually before it was released. Hatd to see him sonilf and shakey. He was a mans man
This song gets me every time. It's beautifully sad.
Yes the original is a must
This is so weird, this week I went back to mybold favorites Sound of Silence and Hurt, and now I see you're also doing them
The song you quoted God's gonna cut you down was released posthumously 3 years after Johnny died. The video features celebrities lip syncing along to it.
At one point in the 70s, 1 out of 5 records sold in the US was a Johnny Cash record. ❤️💔
I love how y'all take it straight to your family relationships as it should be implied 😢
Johnny Cash covered this it was originally done by Nin inch nails. That's also very good but I love a bunch of his songs and his story getting into music.
The closins the piano resembles closing a coffin.
Hhahahajajahaha.
this song goes deep into your soul. I know he covered it but for me he is the original singer of this song
"from beginning to end- art." couldn't say it better.
That is the house he grew up in. It went under water with the building of a dam.
Picture on the wall was a picture of his mother. Nine inch nails wrote the song and after they put it out. He said he was sitting in a diner and he realized he wrote the song about Johnny Cash. It wasn't his song. He said that I wrote that song about Johnny Cash and did not realize it.
Guys legendary Hip Hop Producer talked Johnny into recording this song… they had recorded the American Series over the last few years of Johnny’s life… Full Circle and 1 Degree of Separation from what y’all do. God Bless
Rick Ruben
It's always good to watch the original for comparison/ contrast!
Best damn version of the song ever recorded.
June Cash died April, 2003. Johnny four months later. Trent Rezner wrote the song.
I saw this back in the day, when Cash first released it. It was clear it was his funeral song...and for a few years I couldn't listen to it or else I might have done the thing...full of broken thoughts I could not repair...this was when? 2003 or something? I was driving Suburbans for a Mortuary Service Company, saw this music vid on the Country Music Television channel that was always playing in the embalming room. The chief embalmer was a big country fan. And I was like 19. Magnificent piece of music, but a bit too real. Otherwisee, I only knew Cash from the Sarah Connor Chronicles "The man Comes to Town".