Johnny Cash

I came across this MTV first in Popmatters, reviewing his album A Hundred Highways produced before he passed on 2003. It is such a moving song, with amazing yet straightforward imagery.


I first learnt about Johnny Cash in proper, through Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon in Walk The Line, a movie detailing Cash's life and rise to fame. It is an inspiring film, and the two actors did both Johnny Cash and June Carter much justice. The songs in the film are performed by the actors themselves. (Phoenix actually did some rudimentary guitar lessons before he did this film, although he still does not actually play the guitar).


A Hundred Highways sees Cash as a much older man, uttering his death-anticipatory lyrics along to soulful playing of the guit (and piano). It may seem morbid, but really, I have not seen an MTV that interests me much, and if it has to be an old Cash that does it, well so be it.


Hope you enjoy the song.