This is NOT Johnny Cash the shitkicker-folkie man-in-black icon. This is a Mount Rushmore legend, his voice a sepulchral croak. But it reminds me of this broadcast I ran into of Cash and Carter around the same time going through an emotionally wrenching version of “Jackson” and saying goodbye to all their guests as if doing so for the last time. It ripped my heart out. These songs, obvious choices, several he’s recorded before, stamped with the same weary, loving gravitas, do that too. “Freedom, freedom, oh that’s just people talking/your prison is walking this world alone,” he confides, cutting through the everyday murk like a thunderbolt.
Currently playing:"Desperado," Johnny Cash
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