This was originally a Nine Inch Nails song. But Johnny's version is the one people remember. It wasn't long after this video was released that his wife June passed away. Johnny lived about another 3-4 months, and then he too died. The original song was about drug addiction. And, although, Johnny had his own problems with that... I believe his version is more about growing old. And maybe feeling that his success really didn't mean that much to him. Most of his friends and family had died before him. How good is life, if you can't enjoy it? If you haven't seen his video to God's Gonna Cut You Down, it is fantastic. Cash made the record right before he died, so the video has a ton of stars singing to it. Give it a watch!

@ShortyRock801

Жыл бұрын

Also … Trent Reznor (Lead singer of Nine Inch Nails and composer of the original song) after hearing this version said that it was no longer his song

@bobbysmitty1628

Жыл бұрын

@@ShortyRock801 Facts

@bobbysmitty1628

Жыл бұрын

Johnny's life could span a movie trilogy. Gosh how we miss him. His last words were rumored to be "I hear the train ah coming." .....Thank you, Johnny 🥲🖤.

@da_blade5040

Жыл бұрын

@@bobbysmitty1628 Very Well put!! 😢💔 RIP Mr. Cash

@paulfadeley3496

Жыл бұрын

@@ShortyRock801 Trent originally wrote the song about drug abuse after a bad break up with then girlfriend Tori Amos

His daughter said to him that it sounded like he was saying Goodbye... his response... I am. Very powerful coming from Johnny.

Him closing the piano at the ends, I believe, is him closing our his music career, maybe even a recognition that his time on this earth is almost finished.. that part get me every time

@mikejenkins1972

Жыл бұрын

Rumor sais, he never opened it up again...

@impudentdomain

Жыл бұрын

also very symbolic of closing a casket

When Trent Reznor (the songwriter and performer of Nine Inch Nails) heard this cover for the first time, he famously said "it's not my song anymore". Yes, that's his wife June Carter Cash who died shortly after the filming and he followed her just a few months later. While Trent was singing about fading youth and drug addiction, Johnnie was talking about the futility of fame and how it's all just a passing illusion that doesn't really matter. He's saying goodbye to it all and to all of us. He knew he was nearing his end, he just didn't realize how close that end really was. It's a cruel irony that this truly was his goodbye as it was his final recording he released prior to passing. We lost a true legend here. While the movie Walk The Line (Joaquin Phoenix as Johnnie and Reese Witherspoon as June. Both had to learn how to play instruments and each sang their parts vs lip sync) took a few limited artistic asides, it's actually pretty accurate vs how Hollywood usually treats things. I think you would really enjoy watching it. That and Coal Miner's Daughter about the life of Loretta Lynn. Both extremely well done, and done by people who took the time to learn the material and sing the songs accurately instead of lip sync. (Little trivia note: Beverly D'Angelo plays Patsy Cline alongside Sissy Spacek as Loretta)

@davidhunt7249

Жыл бұрын

Well stated my brother. Cash harbored demons that only June could unveil and reveal so he could find who he was. He got up to live. The seed of Johnny's music never shriveled up. Sometimes the dirt and the rain just didn't work. When he died, I did not feel sorry. He makes my toe tap, hands clap, and my feeble voice sing along. His destination was us.

@JeshuaSquirrel

Жыл бұрын

As I understand it, Trent didn't understand why Johnny wanted to cover this song but he was Johnny Cash so of course Trent agreed. One of the things I have heard about this cover is Trent was born to write this song and Johnny was born to sing it.

@ChanelStuff

Жыл бұрын

And both of those women sang the songs too... all 4 actors did a phenomenal job in both movies

The man in black is an amazing storyteller. This was the last song he did before he passed.

@harrygreb8427

Жыл бұрын

No it wasn't, like the 309 was

@Gutslinger

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't his last song. People over-romanticize this song so much to the point where there spread so much false information about it. It's aggravating.

@mikejenkins1972

Жыл бұрын

No, his last recorded song wasn't "Hurt" or "309" ("309" was his last selfwritten song, that he recorded), his last recording was "Engine 143" for a Carter-Family-Tribute-Album. :)

@Marta_Lledo_Video_Channel

Жыл бұрын

@@harrygreb8427 Was it his last video of a recording? Maybe that is what was meant!?

@Seastallion

Жыл бұрын

@@Marta_Lledo_Video_Channel It was the last music video that Johnny Cash did. His wife June wasn't planned to be in it, but she was concerned that he might be overworking himself and came down to check on him. They just happened to catch her on film too when she did, and they asked her if she minded being included in the video, to which she responded that she was fine with it. She died unexpectedly due to surgical complications 4 months after the video was filmed, and Johnny died 3 months after her. Johnny officially died due to diabetic causes, but it is widely accepted that he died of a broken heart after her passing.

He made this song his own... Still makes me (and almost everyone else all over the world) emotional.

His wife stood by him all those years he struggled with heroin addiction when he wasn’t the kindest person. There’s a movie about his life called “Walk The Line.”

@brittreacts

Жыл бұрын

True meaning of “through sickness and health” ❤️

@ItsMe-cz1pi

Жыл бұрын

Amazing movie. Joachim Pheonix killed it of course.

@mikejenkins1972

Жыл бұрын

John wasn't on Heroin. He was on pills...

@johnjohn37371

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, no heroin, lots of pills. He speaks on it candidly and at length in his last biography....

@jjayp1

Жыл бұрын

Crazy, I vividly remember the scene where Johnny was chasing June at a concert. What stuck out to me was the fellow acts playing that show...June Carter and her famous sisters, Cash, Elvis, Waylon and Jerry Lee Lewis. Imagine being able to tell your grandkids you saw all them. I can't remember if Buddy Holly was there too but I think that was after he passed because Waylon was just the bass player in the band when Holly was still with us. Just think how much that must've tortured Waylon to know that he should've been on that plane if not for giving up his seat to Big Bopper Richardson who was sick and didn't want to ride the bus in a snow storm without heat. Add to the grief, one of the bandmates (I forget who said it but think it was Holly) joked to Waylon as they parted 'I hope the bus breaks down'. To which Waylon laughed and quipped back 'Yeah, I hope your plane crashes'. I've read Waylon's autobiography as well as his oldest son Terry's, who became his dad's tour manager and essentially his best friend. And even he said his dad never spoke about it and from a young age it was implicitly known to not ask him about it. I do know that it deeply haunted him for the rest of his life and I can't help but wonder if that played a role in W's substance abuse issues and self destructive behavior. Both Cash and Jennings were absolute savages. It's a damn miracle that one of them let alone both did not die young, much less survive into the early 2000s. June Carter and Jessi Colter were/are absolute angels for what they went through both in terms of heartbreak/pain and saving their husbands from themselves. I'm still a big fan of Jesse's son Shooter and grandson Struggle (Will Harness).

Yes his wife, June Carter quite a musical history herself.

@sourisvoleur4854

Жыл бұрын

It's true! Johnny married up. The Carters were country music gods.

He is a legend in country music. He has had bad addictions to drugs and alcohol and his wife helped him through it though it almost destroyed them. He is saying goodbye and if he had a chance to do it all over again he would value his friends and family above everything. His empire of "dirt" is all the accolades and property. The place they filmed it was in his museum. He was close friends with many of the top country music artists and very good friends with Elvis Presley. They both had albums with Sun Records in their early days.

My father was a huge fan, so I grew up with the music of Johnny Cash. We played this song at my father's funeral and today it's my father's birthday. I'm just eating his favorite cake and this song comes by. Couldn't be better! 💕

@j.jmcquade5278

Жыл бұрын

🙏

He's saying his final goodbye to the world that's what he's doin hes just letting us know his time in this world is over

@brittreacts

Жыл бұрын

😞

There's really nothing you can say about this song. It's a masterpiece.

Yes, that was Johnny's wife "June Carter Cash" standing behind him. As you know by now this was Johnny's interpretation of a Nine Inch Nails song, for which the author/original singer stated this is his song now. Johnny was a man who battled with his faith, drug uses and fame. For Johnny this song was about what is important in life and the battle of status and things vs. friends, family and faith.

his career lasted from 1954 until 2003 , he was one of the true greats of country music ! he did`nt want to cover hurt at first , but then made it his own , and even the writer and original performer of the song , trent reznor of nine inch nails said that while he wrote it , it was nolonger his , it now belonged to johnnycash ! now , listen to the original by nine inch nails !

That was his wife June Carter Cash. She passed shortly after this video in which he quickly followed her in passing. Johnny Cash was a one time artist never to be repeated. You should listen to Man In Black. That song will tell you everything you need to know about John.

@robinrockstheworld1962

3 ай бұрын

Johnny passed away on September 12 a few months after June did, after complications occurred following heart surgery.

This is a great song before Johnny Cash sung it, But its an Amazing song after he sung it.. Hearing what he said to his daughter about it sounding like he was saying good bye and him saying it was kills me even now typing this, A legend with a lot in his past to regret, Time not spent with those he loved, Friends and family dying.. It's heartbreaking to see someone so sucssessful have so much to regret because he thought what was important, What was real was the fame and money but with everything time showed him that fame and fortune is good but if you have no one to share it with, Then it means nothing at all, We can't take it with us.. But the love from those around us can keep us fighting to stick around.. Its beautiful in every way and tragic.. RIP Johnny Cash.

Johny Cash is, simply put, a country singer legend. Although he is not the writer or original artist to do this song I always believe this song is a semi autobiography of his life. He had a troubled past, but came out on the other side. His life ran the gambit from very dark times to the best of times.

Johnny was saying goodbye. He was an old man with a bad heart. He knew his time was coming, and he wanted to say goodbye.

This was his swan song. It's a Nine Inch Nails cover song, but he really owned it with his performance. I think the meaning is that without your loved ones around you EVERYTHING else means nothing.

@adamskeans2515

Жыл бұрын

not any more. Trent Reznor says he was born to write this song, Johnny was born to sing.

When Johnny Cash shows this video to his daughter Roseanne Cash, she told him it's like him saying goodbye and he answered that he was.

His good-bye song, the most powerful song he has sung. Still brings tears to my eyes.

If you knew the life of Johnny and June , this song would have had you in tears

That moment where June Carter-Cash is standing looking over him, it punches me right in the heart every time. And yet I can't stop watching it because the song and video combine to make sheer brilliance.

For a more upbeat song, 'A Boy Named Sue' is one of his many classics.

@davidhunt7249

Жыл бұрын

"Hey Porter" HA!

This song speaks to me and as of now I am 20 years sober but the 20 before that I was addicted to alcohol. In your sobriety you hurt many, many people. Many go away. You remember everything. You know the pain you are causing, but you try to kill it by doing the same thing that makes you hurt them. When you reach sobriety, you truly see the damage an empire of dirt. No matter if you are rich and successful, you realize it is not worth it. If you could go back and change it, everyone would.

Near the end of Johnnys life, Rick Rubin approached Johnny to do some cover's and this was an original Nine Inch Nails songs that he ended up doing. While the original song was centered around drug use, I think Johnny Cash version brings another perspective on a different view on how you can interpret the lyrics.

after 47 albums- hurt by nine inch nails was the last song he ever did-the man in black knew his time was up- rip LEGEND

It was just a pretty badass thing to do, at the end of your long storied life, to cover a song from a completely different genre of music, and create a video that gives that song a whole different meaning. It wasn’t like anything he’d done before, yet it was still very much him to do it.

Trent Reznor, the author, said hearing Johnny's version of this song felt like he had lost a girlfriend. He knew he didn't own the song anymore. He said once, "It's not my song anymore. I just carried it a while for Johnny. Rosanne Cash, Johnny's daughter said, when she heard it, "It sounds like you are saying goodbye." He replied, "I am." A good primer to Johnny Cash is the movie "Walk The Line" staring Juaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon. Johnny and June had a real-life love story.

You discovered The Man in Black. Johnny's career spanned too many great songs to try and list them all here. However, Hurt was a big one that brought his name back to mainstream relevance again. He made many of us feel like he was family. He was a "punk", a rebel and a pioneer. His words were for the little guy, and those overlooked by society. A true cultural icon, we miss him. 🖤

@davidhunt7249

Жыл бұрын

Damn straight! Well said. Thank you for your comment.

Johnny Cash. Legend. June Carter Cash. A wonderful person. Please check him out when he was younger.

Cash was so, so talented. His music, his life, so brilliant

This is a difficult way to introduce yourself to Johnny Cash's music, because this is the ending, not the beginning. But I like your statement that you have to go down the 'rabbit hole' of his music. I hope you do. Thanks for this reaction.

Johnny grew up dirt poor. His older brother, who he loved like a hero, died in a gruesome sawmill accident at 15 years old. He became famous in the late 50s until today. He had a long string of country hits. His baritone has filled the halls of kings and the halls of prisons. He has been to the highest highs of life with accolades, a loving wife and children. He has been to the rock bottom lows of addiction and loss. He lived a full life, but in the end, he gladly would have given it all away for just some more quality time with his friends and family. June Carter Cash passed away shortly after this video. Johnny followed her a few months later. In the end, it is not the awards. It is not the fame and fortune. In the end, it is just about time. Our fleeting time on earth. The only thing of real value is time with our loved ones.

I cry every time I watch this video. You can everything your chasing, fame, fortune, and yet in the end spending time with family & loved ones is the most important thing in life, time is precious! Yes we all need to work to make money to survive but have to find a balance. Maybe he regretted not spending as much time with loved ones as he should. As you get older your values change, you watch people you know die, it's very sad. He was one of my dads favorite singers, The Man In Black. I have my dads large country and western album collection, I inherited it when my dad past away I have several of Johnny's albums in there.

his rendition of this song always brings tears to my eyes

Trent reznor's version was about addiction and depression, and though both elements are in Johnny's version because he also struggled with both of those, it's Johnny's version that resonates with people so deeply because it affects everybody. This was sung by Johnny at the very end of his life, his wife was dying and yes that was her standing behind him. This whole version means basically how death is the great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are it doesn't matter how much money you have, you can have a billion dollars are you can be a homeless bum on the street. Death will visit you both equally. At his heart Johnny was a simple country boy who love God his music and his mama. But in order to sell records and make his label happy and make the people happy he had to change. And I'm sure in his estimation he had to sell his soul. Because he most certainly got famous but it also came with addiction and depression and losing so many people in his life because of it. The most telling line in the song is the last one where he said if he could go back he would find a way to keep himself. You can't take the people you love with you and you die any more than you can take Fame or money. All we have is our integrity our honor and our soul. Don't sacrifice that for anything or anyone. That was the lesson.

It is refreshing to hear a reaction to someone that actually listens to the lyrics, You have a new fan.

This song is about looking back on his life and all the regrets he has.

Johnny Cash, singer, songwriter, musician, member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Gospel Music Hall of Fame. This was his goodbye. He died about 6 months later. Check out Folsom Prison Blues, One Piece at a Time, The Man in Black and A Boy Named Sue, they will give you a good example of what he could do.

You are so insightful. His got eight billion fantastic songs. It's just endless any has influenced so many people. He was beloved. And he never put up with any shit man. Five feet high and Rising is a fantastic song about a flood he went through as a child. Get Rhythm, especially the earlier version is just incredible. I've played it in my Honky Tonk band so many times and it always gets people dancing and cheering. It's just a great Groove. But for some reason after watching your reaction, it popped into my head, it would be awesome for you to react to his version of the City of New Orleans. The lyrics are incredible and he just brings this reality to it that is very honorary of an older dying situation and he is paying homage and it is so wonderful.

The woman on the stairs was his wife and the woman in the picture hanging on the wall was his mother. The house he visited and looked through the windows was the house he grew up in. His wife died during an operation around the time this song was released and less than 6 months later he joined her.

This was his goodbye. When he closed the piano at the end, he never played again. His wife died a few months after this was recorded and he died a few months after her. He knew this was his goodbye and it was about his regrets in life, and to tell all to remember what really matters...his final gift to us.

Johnny cash is Johnny cash. Been around dince the fifties. Did this song as a tribute to his recently deceased wife at the time. Originally a Nine Inch Nails song but he made it his own. A true musician while nit always being a good human. Like any of us in this messed up world

it's an Old Man reacting to reflections of his life, his victories, his defeats, the ones he's loved, the ones he's lost... Yes those are all pic's of young Johnny Cash and his wife

Sometime you should listen to Johnny Cash singing Sunday Morning Comin' Down performed live in Las Vegas...if you want to know what Johnny Cash was. I'm not a Country fan, but, some people are worthy of admiration. Another one that will make you CRY...is Randy Travis performing Three Wooden Crosses. That one will definitely knock you to your knees!

He's singing about getting old. If you're lucky enough to live a full life, these are the feelings you'll likely face at the end. Your body begins to fail, your mind begins to fail, and you're left wondering what was really important.

His museum. The House of Cash. Music legend. Men lead lives of quiet desperation.

This song is about his real life and was released shortly before he died. He was locked up for manslaughter (Folsom Prison) and this reflects back on his own life.

the way, tat he closes that piano.... as if he knew it would be the last time...... another legend lost......

Johnny singing his own epitaph. Many other artists have also put out amazing works as they were facing their ends - David Bowie "Lazarus," Klaus Nomi "The Cold Song," Warren Zevon "Keep Me in Your Heart," Leonard Cohen "You Want it Darker," Freddie Mercury "The Show Must Go On," Gregg Allman "Song for Adam," or Glenn Campbell "Adios." The video shows Johnny inside his "museum" which had closed to the public by then. I did recently visit his museum in Nashville, which was a wonderful exhibit. His home, sadly, burned down a few years after his death when it was in the process of being restored.

Oh this song brings me back. What a great performer! For a nice biography of Johnny Cash' s life there is a movie titled "Man in Black" (2005) starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Ginnifer Goodman" The story was written by Johnny Cash (Book of the same name), Gill Dennis, and James Manigold. I highly recommend this movie if you enjoy music history, and love stories. "Man in Black" chronicles Johnny's life and the early years of his music. " (H)e records alongside Elvis Presely, Jerry Lewis and Carl Perkins (IMDB)" Johnny Cash first met June Carter on the radio as a young boy growing up poor, June Carter met him as a singer when he was touring. Attraction never lies and "Man in Black " captures this love affair very well. Its worth a watch.

It was Johnny's goodbye to us all, who were lifelong fans of his music. He was one of the father's of outlaw country, and a brilliant musician. If you haven't seen the movie "Walk the Line," it's entirely worth your while.

The first time I heard this was at the Johnny Cash Musem in nashville. they have a this video playing there on repeat

Johnny had a lot of sorrow in his life. As a child he saw his brother get killed in a sawmill. He struggled with drugs through much of his life, as did many country music artists back then. He tried to help one fellow get started in music that he met while in prison. This person relapsed and didn't survive it. Johnny saw a lot of sadness in the world. He was known as the man in black.

Wow. You're beauty is only outweighed by your intuition and intelligence. Love your reactions and how you figure out the meaning of songs. Good work. Thx

June Carter was his wife. She passed around the same time he did. A country music legend. A farewell song.

This was Johnny's goodbye letter to us. Total tearjerker look at his life, his regrets. To old men like me who heard Johnny when we were kids, this song is deeply emotional. Now that you've cried your tears, look up the cover of this song from Kermit the Frog just to make yourself laugh

Most impactful musical video I have ever experienced.

He was THE legend. Started out at Sun records with Elvis and a couple more legends

At the end of the video, he closes the piano lid like it's a coffin. Johnny was saying goodbye here. June, his wife, died shortly after this was recorded. Johnny died a few months after that. This song, as I take it, is both a lament and a cautionary tale from a man who knows he's on his way out.

Johnny is saying, "What does it matter to gain the whole world. In the end, you can't take it with you."

He was a legend and and an icon and there won't be another like him.

R.i.P Legend 🙏🏻🎶

Johnny Cash WAS around for a long time. He and Elvis and Carl Perkins were the fabulous Memphis boys of the 1950s. The woman in the video is indeed his wife June. So sad that they are both gone. They were awesome. See also songs like Jackson

Its a complete reflection of his life and being alone in old age. Johnny was part of what was called Outlaw country. Way lan Jennings, Mere Haggart, where the other 2 major icons of that style

The brilliant Johnny Cash and the beautiful Brit reacts ❤

Its about importance!!! And just what is important. Everyone dies and is gone. So what is important when your the only one left.

Johnny Cash recorded the Nine in Nails song Rust barely seven months to the day before he died. Though he was in failing health it's almost certain he died of a broken heart 9 days after his wife of 35 years passed away on May 15th 2003 and then Johnny left us May 24th.

Thank you for doing this.

When I'm in my 80s, this is the song I'll play while I look back on my life and decide whether or not I succeeded or failed. No matter which way, I know there'll be tears in my eyes when I make the decision.

Hurt will break your heart but if you want to hear a Johnny Cash song that will make you smile, you should check out Boy Named Sue, One Piece at a Time or The One on the Left is on the Right. He also had great songs that told stories like Cisco Clifton's Fillin Station, Here Comes that Rainbow Again, and Sunday Morning Comin Down. Johnny Cash is more than a legend. In his heyday out of every five records that were sold in this country, ONE of them was by Johnny Cash. I don't mean to go all Annie Wilkes on him but I have been a fan since he released his first single, Cry, Cry, Cry back in the 1950's. (Yep, I'm older than dirt. When I was a kid, dinosaurs were still roaming the earth.) It is my opinion that there are two kinds of people: those who are fans of Johnny Cash and those who have not yet heard his music!

@mikeplott4817

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for that I loved that show we I was growing up 👍🙏👣

Johnny Cash heard Trent Resner's (lead for Nine Inch Nails) regret-filled Hurt and completed turned it around to be a regret-filled dying singer's lok back at his life. During the creation of the video, June Carter Cash came down the stairs,. She is seen looking down at him with a perfect blend of concern and caring. She passed four.months after this was published; he passed three months later. The most-touching venue is where he slowly and lovingly closes the lid on his piano. He is saying goodbye to his life if music. This video can be summarized in the idiom, "No one on their deathbed ever looked back and said, 'I wish I had spent more time at work's!"

That was his wife June Carter Cash, and the baby was his and June's son John Carters Cash, I am assuming. He was and is a legend, with his songs getting him into the Country, Rock and Roll, and Gospel halls of fame. A singer songwriter, and movie star, as well. June was his second wife.

If I could start again, a million miles away....that line haunts me.

You have to listen to Johnny Cash's "The Junkies Prayer" if anyone has ever lived it it was him.

Love these reactions

I can't listen to this song without getting emotional, there are only 2 other songs that make me cry like this one does. Letters From Home by John Michael Montgomery, and If You Get There Before I Do by Collin Raye... The sadness in his voice just rips into me.... The closing of the piano at then end and then him passing a few months later, gets me every time...

[Edit : he is feeling EVERYTHING] - End of life assessment cover song of reflecting back over successes and failures. A brilliant moment of a man completely making a song "his own" and admitting his downfalls (while his successes rippled strong).

@davidhunt7249

Жыл бұрын

My assessment also. His life was not on a loop. And perhaps not necessarily linear. In this song he feels. From time to time, in an instant, as Humans we get flashes of updates that reveal what we carry. Then move on until the next rehearsal. ✌👍

June Carter Cash, and her amazing musical family.

This one strikes a heavy chord with me… My dad used to perform this song with his band when he got cancer… It was like he understood exactly what it meant. But, it’s just something that I can’t explain. It gets me every time I hear it! 🥲

The man is famous he has his own Elvis type of musume. Elvis sang his songs. Yes that was his wife.Also he is a famous actor. And that song is a cover written from a young mans perspective.Now sung from an old mans perspective.

Amazing singer, songwriter, author. He is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Live version of Man in Black is amazing!

Johnny cash was the bad boy from his music era. He would play in prisons. His trade mark was wearing black most all the time.. he's a staple of original rock and roll

Young Lady I'm impressed. 1st time I saw you I wasn't Twice now you've hit it out of the park

I do think that is his house full of awards and memorabilia that he had earned. He is in several Hall Of fames. Walk the line is a movie about him.

Many consider this the greatest music video ever made.

what most people don't know about johnny cash is hes in the country hall of fame ,rock and roll hall of fame and songwriters hall of fame, Watch the movie walk the line ,Great movie and you will understand the video.

He's talking about listening to the world rather than the heart. Sometimes we make the right choices for the wrong reasons and sometimes we make the wrong choices for the right reasons.... We have to live with that choice either way. Sometimes it hurts.

Yes that was June Carter Cash his wife. This seems like this was his goodbye song to all of us. RIP Mr. Cash!

Walk The Line is a great movie about his life.

Man in Black is another great song by him. He started at Sun Records as did Elvis

One of the most epic covers of all time. FYI this was the last thing he recorded before he died.

@mikejenkins1972

Жыл бұрын

No, he recorded a lot more songs after "Hurt". The last song, he recorded was "Engine 143".

The Johnny Cash version is a song of apology and farewell. Seven decades of regret wrapped up in a song. Johnny was a very difficult man to love in his younger years. I don't think he knew anyone he didn't hurt in one way or another. He had a kind heart, but his demons ruled much of the time. I like to believe he managed to make peace with himself and only regretted the pain he had caused others by his later years.

@brittreacts

Жыл бұрын

So beautifully tragic 💔

@BackyardButcher

Жыл бұрын

@@brittreacts new sub over here! Thank you for reacting to this

@Falcun21

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Most country singers back in the day and the early rockers had troubles growing up. They were Great Depression kids that had childhoods full of sacrifice and struggle. Elvis was poorer than a church mouse but he was well loved by his parents and he was very religious and he came away from it as super generous and humble. Johnny was poor and his father was abusive and Johnny's brother died early and it was essentially Johnny's fault so his father held that over his head and then he went into the Air Force and he did not have a good time there either. He was a rough man from a rough life and he had an attitude which is why he's one of the original Outlaws of Country Music. Jerry Lee Lewis was a womanizer that apparently wasn't above marrying women while still married to other women and was all about having as much fun as possible. He wasn't humble or generous, was more than a little vain and egotistical and lasted longer than any of the others. Johnny had a lot of demons he had to wrestle with. His guilt over his brother's death, his guilt over his failed first marriage. His guilt over what he put his family and friends through because of his drug addiction. This song captures all of his pain and never fails to choke me up.

@gk5891

Жыл бұрын

@@Falcun21 Sharecroppers did well to survive. The average sharecropper earned around $200 a year (or less than $4 a week) on his portion of the crop. During the Depression it was much worse. I'm sure Johnny grew up very poor.

One of the best to do anything at anything.

A man facing his own mortality and looking back on his life, expressing regrets for his sins, saying that all the acclaim and riches he earned in the end weren't all that important. He didn't write the song, but it seems as though the song was written for him.

Johnny started at Sun records back in 1955, probably about ten months after elvis, playing rockabilly. His roots though were strong in country, through which he had a succesful career. Always on the side of the underdog, downtrodden, poor and just the downright unlucky.

The old white house in the flashbacks was his childhood home in Dyess, Arkansas.

Cash played at the same sets and stages as Elive did, They were friends back in the day. Most of his songs where about the law and incarceration. In fact he played at least two concerts to hardcore prisoners at the prison walls. You can check out the live recordings.

Commenting before watching. There's gonna be tears.

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Half right. Britt held it together, i'm sat here bawling, again😭