Johnny Cash
guns
guitars
I don't care if I do I do I do I do...
seventies headphones
sideburns
women
family
god
belt buckles
black
morals
history
trains
drugs
alcohol
traveling
leaving
coming back
leaving again
prison
camaraderie
humo
friends
strength
America
cars
Sun Records
putting paper in his guitar strings in the late 50's when recording "I Walk The Line" and wanting the sound of a snare drum (before drums were commonplace in recording studios)
modesty
there is no Cashland
still playing
love
life
walking the line
never changes
my dad likes him
rolls his own cigarettes
pissed - off
lights a candle in the dark instead of complaining about it
tells it like it is
quiet
dangerous
cowboy hat
boots
he's not a wimp
fists
John Henry
the working man
gets even with his foreman
respects women
great story teller
got dirty and came clean -- proves dirtier than ever
gives the finger on friends calendar
sweats
me and Tom Canning played along (we thought) to his songs on our plastic Mickey Mouse guitars when we were 8 years old
easy to understand
never went through disco
flower
beatbox
all-electric phase
Oney
Ira Hayes
tells about the plight of Native Americans
wouldn't do well in Japan
tall
Folsom prison
shot a man
mystery
compassion
passion
energy
subtlety
work ethic
image
fire
dusty
album covers
he'll never sound better on a CD than on a twelve inch thirty-three and one third revolutions per minute scratchy slice of vinyl
never smiles unjustly on album covers
June Carter Cash is cool
she's Johnny's woman
realizes he's a custodian to something greater - music
ducks in order
makes Bono look like even more of a wanker than he already is
probably makes anybody more wankerlike
carpentry
let's the Carter-Cash family singers out on stage in the middle of the set
but know's what's what and closes with just him and the boys
never heard him scream
never seen him naked
punk rockers (Oi) moshing at his Seattle concert
baritone
sorrowful
proud
never had sunken in rock star cheekbones
thinking about him took up almost an hour of my time at Cleveland Airport
Johnny Cash...wait a second...JC..JC...HE'S A CHRIST FIGURE!