Couple React to Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues & Ring of Fire
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2020
- In this video Tasha and I continue our Johnny Cash Journey with Folsom Prison Blues and Ring of Fire.
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He's in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.
As well he should be. 😎👍
AND Gospel!
Yes sir, he's also in gospel hall of fame to.
Jimi Hendrix and Johnny got inducted into the R&R HOF the same year. I believe Roseanne Cash said she had a psychedelic experience when she saw her father playing along to "Purple Haze".
What Artist's are in the Country Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams Sr, Chet Atkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Everly Brothers, Bill Monroe Bob Wills, Floyd Cramer and Sam Phillips.
There's actual footage of his performance live at the prison. Now THAT was a fantastic performance.
I was disappointed they didn't pick that one
@@ohmareshah yeah me to
yes he did a live version at San Quinton prison very good you have to watch
Cash performed at Folsom state prison
Loll where he's taunting the guard 🤣😂
Ice-T used to cite Folsom Prison Blues when people would complain his lyrics were too violent. He didn't think he wrote anything quite as callous as "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die."
I watched an interview he did, said he wrote Folsom Prison Blues while he was still in the Air Force. He said he was trying to think “What is the worst thing a guy can do to go to prison”, and came up with the line “Shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die”.
And this wasn't even Johnny Cash's most callously violent song. "Cocaine Blues" has a man get high and murder his girlfriend, and "A Boy Named Sue" has a pretty gruesome fist fight between a father and son that nearly ends in gunplay.
Love IceT!!
Heck, if you want to talk about violent lyrics, just listen to old traditional folk music.
Ice-T was telling his story, he ain't lying "Where cops come and get your cat out the tree, but I come from south central LA and unfortunately... S...t aint like that!
Country is really just a blend of folk, blues, and bluegrass. Rock is blues and country combined with electric instruments.
I'm not sure I have heard anyone brake that down better!
I would add that Country music includes folk, blues, Bluegrass, Western, Cajun, Tejano and Californian sounds and, perhaps, more.
Bluegrass didn't exist until roughly around 1947, when Bill Monroe invented it. Bluegrass however, IS a direct descendant of Southern Appalachian music, which in turn directly descended from the Scots-Irish settlers, with major influence from English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh folk music from the British Isles. Basically if the fiddle leads, it is traditional Mountain music; if the banjo leads it is likely the more modern Bluegrass. The greatest group to use both forms of music is Flatt & Scruggs, and if you watch their old Grand Ole Opry performances from the 60's, you will catch the subtle difference between Mountain Music and Bluegrass music, because F&S played BOTH on their program!
You must react to Johnny Cash song Man in Black.He explains why he dresses in black.Great song!
Yes!
Yes! You need to watch the video though that he filmed at Vanderbilt University.
Johnny wrote the song man in black with black representing all the downtrodden people in prison. A better version of Folsom Prison Blues is off his album " Folsom Prison Blues (Live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA (1st Show) - January 1968) ". Many great tracks off that album
Great songs, especially live.
The reactions of the crowd always get to me on both of his prison albums (Folsom and San Quentin, for those who don't know)... Whatever they'd done that landed them in there, Johnny genuinely didn't care. He was there to brighten their day and lift their spirits. He treated them as humans and they loved him for it.
You should definitely do a reaction video to "The Man In Black"
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Not only in Prison, he wore black to identify with the poor and downtrodden of the Human Race.
I love that song
Since you like some country, have you ever listened to one of the only black country stars to make it big? Mr. Charley Pride is a beautiful voice, beautiful man, & one of the kindest men in Country Music. Please give a listen to Kiss an Angel Good Mornin or any of his other hits. You will like him, too.
Yes, my Dad had 2 eight tracks that he played on loop. Hank Williams and Charlie Pride. Loved them, then and now.
@@robertbebee4484 I love it! I started singing when I was 9. Lived in the country, no kids to play with, so I taught myself to play guitar. I recorded about 9 45's. 😂🤣 I found 2 someone posted here on CZcams! Look up Barbara Richardson When You Love A Man & Barbara Richardson Rough Around the Edges. The last one is autobiography of my life put to music. 🤣😂
My 21 year old son is a huge fan of Johnny. I've played Johnny Cash music for many years. The greatest compliment was when my son said he wished he was around when Johnny was in his prime.
Good story telling is hard to find anymore. Not impossible, just hard.
He had great empathy for those who were imprisoned. He wrote the song as an outreach and when he fought all odds to perform in a prison, believe me....they gave a roar....then got quiet. He had a way of making one feel understood.
Ring of Fire was written by his future wife describing her feelings for him while she was married to another man.
Actually it was written by Johnny Cash and Merle Kilgore. Johnny Cash gave his share of the songwriting credit to June because she was struggling financially at the time and just let people believe she wrote it. This was revealed in his first wife's book titled I Walked the Line
@@magic8ball1982 It was June's idea to add the Mexican trumpets, but you're right: she didn't write it.
June knew she was sinning and it burns burns burns
@@magic8ball1982 If you read "I Walked The Line" by his first wife, Vivian, you also know that according to her, the "ring of fire" is in reference to her vagina. Wish I hadn't read her book, because now when I hear the song all I can see is her vagina. Thanks a lot Vivian! 😂
He was still with his first wife. Watch the walk the line movie its his life.
The style of this song is rockabilly. This has always been my favorite version. It was recorded at Sun studio in Memphis. It features Luther Perkins on lead guitar and Marshal Grant on stand up bass. There are no drums. Thaw percussion comes from the bass player slapping the low string against the bass and then the strings of the rhythm guitar being muted to give a percussive sound.
I'm 68 and I remember my grandmother telling me, "I want you to always be a good boy." That was something people of my grandmother's generation said to their boys. Johnny Cash's mother would have been of my grandmother's generation. He also got a handle on the psychology of a psychopath. That line about shooting a man in Reno just to watch him die is exactly the kind of thing many psychopaths did who wind up in prison. Impulsive acts for no reason that would make sense to a normal person. In spite of the guilt of the man and that he obviously should not be released on society, Johnny recognizes he is a human being, even if the man is incapable of living on the outside without posing a danger to society.
Another great story teller is Jim Croce
You two are making Johnny smile!! And when Johnny smiles, all the clouds leave the sky.
Amen to that 🙏
Amen to that 🙏
You two rock! You were very respectful to the artist and your personalities made the clip very enjoyable!!! Thanks guys
Yew, good reaction video!
A favorite of mine by Cash is, "Sunday Morning Coming Down," it was written by Kris Kristofferson. It... just makes ya feel.
One of my favorites too
Need to watch the live version of "Jackson", he and June Carter Cash.
Johnny: I love the way you talk.
June: I'm talkin' with ma' mouth.
Johnny Cash got his inspiration for Folsom Prison Blues from a documentary he watched in the military called "Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison" He saw what the prisoners went through and got inspired to write a song about it. The line "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" came from Johnny thinking about the worst reason to ever be sent to prison and he wrote that line in. He never actually did time in prison for anything. He was however arrested for drug possession because throughout the 50s and 60s as his career soared, he got hooked up on drugs. But that stopped with the help of his wife, June Carter.
Folsom Prison Blues is my favorite song ever and Johnny Cash will always be my favorite artist.
I love your videos! As someone born and raised in Nashville, Johnny Cash is an icon around here. The only thing I wish you said was that “Hurt” wasn’t written by Johnny. Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails wrote it and Trent respected Johnny so much that he gave it to him to perform years later. Just wanted to say that. I’ll watch your reaction to that one next too. 😊 Much love to you guys and your fun attitude! I enjoy your videos a lot. 💙🎶
Trent was shitty about it at first thr cami around
Check out the Highway Men. Johnny Waylon Willie and Chris
Johnny and his wife June had several duets. Jackson. If I was a carpenter
"If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had one time to sing one song. One song that people would remember before you're dirt. One song that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth. One song that would sum you up. " - Walk the Line film about Johnny Cash
Johnny fits a unique genre right on the cusp of Country and Rock. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry early on but toured heavily with the great Rock legends ...Elvis, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison. He's memorialized in both the Rock and Country Halls of Fame. And his driving chords have often been credited as heavily influencing the birth of Metal, believe it or not.
Boy named Sue and riders in the sky are next right?
yes they should ghost riders is awesome..
daddy sang bass was a great one as well
You two are so cute together. I love seeing couples who are affectionate with one another and enjoy each other's presence. 😁
Both of these are good karaoke songs. I enjoy karaoke, and I'm a baritone. Anything I sing is going to sound like a Johnny Cash cover anyway, so I mostly just sing Johnny Cash. Another note: Ring of Fire was written by his future wife, June Carter, about their relationship.
"I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die..." The single greatest song lyric ever written.
Love it guys. Jonny cash is one of those artists that doesn't have a genre. He has at least one tune everyone likes. Rip Jonny. Ledge.✌🏾
Man. This was my dad's jam back in the day. And now my kids grow up on this too. There is something about this soul Johnny cash music!!!
A request for Delia, The Ballad Of Ira Hayes and One Piece At A Time. Peace!!!
Johnny's style of music is considered Rockabilly. In the fall of 1955, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Carl Perkins toured the South as part of what was known as Louisiana Hayride acts.
He was arrested several times over course of his life but was never sentenced to prison. That being said he felt immense compassion for those who had made poor choices, as he himself had. As well as performing at prisons, always for free, Cash tirelessly campaigned for the rights of prisoners.
Folsom Prison Blues earned Johnny Cash his first Top 10 country hit in 1956, giving his fledgling career and critical jump start. The perspective of this song shaped the trajectory of Cash’s life and birthed the concept of some of the best-selling live albums of all time. Johnny Cash remembers the forgotten men.
He was at San Quentin where he recorded a live album on February 24, 1969, and released it on June 16 of that same year. The song Folsom Prison Blues was the last song on that album. On April 22, 1971, an infamous prisoner, Charles Manson, arrived at San Quentin!
Oooh wow. That take on his voice having authority is spot on. That's such a good take. That's it. His voice is great, tonally, low notes, unique, etc. But it has a command.... you hear it and you immediately drop wtf you are doing and listen. Thank you for saying that...nailed.
Tascha got it right!!! They infused a mariachi feel to it
Gratitude for your respect toward the way life long fans felt hearing hurt for the first time!
His cadence and deep voice will never be replicated.
It was called Rockabilly music.
Johnny Cash never made ONE rockabilly song, he made moody blues and intense blues and country
@@visionemu2458 Johnny Cash was a part of the rockabilly sound of the mid 50s along with Elvis, Carl Perkins, and others. He was more blues and country, but did have a rockabilly sound ... at least early in his career. And some of his early songs were considered rockabilly, although they also were country cross-overs as well.
@@visionemu2458 this is rockabilly u fool
If you want some fun stuff from Johnny, try " One Piece at a Time," or " Boy Named Sue." Both are Classics!
Or "one piece at a time"
I've been everywhere man. Check that one out
I've been everywhere man. Check that one out
One piece at a time is one of my absolute favorites
He is the only singer to win the triple crown, ,,the country music hall of fame, the rock and roll hall of fame, and the gospel music hall of fame.
You two are precious. Love from a 59 year old. Anglo Italian geeza from London. Peace ✌️
Glad your listening to THE MAN, listen guys I am a Canadian and i often wonder why none of your politicians ever used his song "That Ragged Old Flag" on their campaign trail,believe me Every One in your country is so patriotic this song would ring true to you all. Like I said I'm a Canadian and I love it for gods sake.
I forgot all about the beautiful female backup vocals in ring of fire.
Like what Tasha did with the 'tallica shirt.
You guys have become my favorite reaction channel.
Rockabilly, early form of rock music originated by white performers in the American South, popular from the mid-1950s to 1960, with a revival in the late 1970s. Record reviewers coined the term rockabilly-literally, rock and roll played by hillbillies-to describe the intense, rhythm-driven musical style introduced by Elvis Presley on his first recordings.
When he walked on stage, he didn't need an introduction. He just walked out there and said " Hi. I'm Johnny Cash." And people claimed that the testosterone level in the place went up by 500%.
Played this in a pool hall on a box that had mostly rap and real hip hop. Apparently everyone was listening for the first time and after the "just to watch him die" line the place went nuts.
Johnny Cash is like listening to a short story that you should have read! Post modern story telling and there is no other
Johnny Cash said he had a dream about this song having trumpets in it, so he had trumpets put in it.
Johnny Cash's music has always went beyond one genre! Which is why so many people love him.
Ring of Fire, I once stopped my car on the side of the road when this came on my cd, rewound it to the beginning took my wife's hand and sang along while looking into he eyes with my son in his chair and his 15yr old sister just looking at us from the back seat. Needless to say to this day we now consider this our song and when it plays out now 5yr old shouts at us too sing it together.
I admire your talent at reaction videos and I also like the positive vibes both of you bring. Its also a beautiful thing to watch a husband and wife team bring their talents to the table for a lot of folks to enjoy. So, great job reacting. As far as JC is concerned..........well, what do you say about an ICON like that. He was the real deal. Did not live an easy life.
You should react to Mama Tried by Merle Haggard. He actually did some time in prison.
omg I forgot about that song I'm going to listen to it after this
Johnny Cash is in Rock HOF, Country HOF AND Gospel HOF. He released 96 albums in 48 years. Incredicle.
My mum was a huge fan. I grew up listening to Johnny 💙✊
I like tasha's hair.
Enjoyed your reaction you should do “Man in Black” the video reaction it’s pretty inspirational
You would love to hear Johnny and June sing "Jackson".🥰
I’ve been listening to Johnny Cash for almost fifty years and never yet gotten tired of him.
Been a Johnny Cash fan all my life. 63 now. His brother, Tommy Cash is also an accomplished performer. Check out "Six White Horses", my favorite Tommy Cash song. It is a song with a message, the names in the song are key to understanding the message.
As a youth in the 60's, Johnny Cash was not particularly 'cool'.....one for my parents and elders. I'm now enjoying his songs with a fresh view...thanks to you both.
The live version of him actually performing at Folsom Prison for the prisoners, is amazing and highly recommended.
When everyone was giving the gangster rappers a hard time in the 1990s, Cash said that this is their story and they should keep telling it. One of the reasons he's Hip Hop's favorite country musician.
Stumbled across you guys last night, watched your videos until I fell asleep and started again with my cup of coffee this am. You are such a joy to watch and I am impressed as how open you are to different genres. Thank you for the smiles and exuberance in a world so torn at the moment. P.S. love Mama too!
Our pleasure!
Doing that myself now 😂
You guys are a breath of fresh air for my 2020! Thank you for being so upbeat! Hello from upper South Carolina
Metallica "ride the lightning" t-shirt= cool!
I love the way you break these songs down and feel the music/ lyrics. Johnny Cash was a great humanitarian. If he couldnt make positive changes himself for others in the world?
His lyrics are like a blueprint to finding solutions to world/ personal issues
Love it thnx!
Godspeed friends!!
Live 20 minutes from Folsom Prison.
There's a whole Trail dedicated to Johnny over here. Dude was and IS a LEGEND. Grew up on his music and was really emotional once he passed knowing that he had accepted all his faults and was at ease with himself after doing " Hurt " RIP to the Man in Black
Love these reactions/listen to, especially when y'all were feeling Ring Of Fire!
June made that song for johnny Cash RIP legends
I may be wrong
June wrote ring of fire .
Everytime this song came on the radio, when in Folsom prison was insane. Everyone in the whole building of over 1,000 people, would sing along. Fun fact; everyday you can hear the train go by. It's more than just another song.
I love busking this song. I practically always start my "show" with it. Even if people don't know the song, most of folks always look amused.
Check out some of the songs from the American Recordings album he did, produced by Rick Rubin. Just Johnny singing and playing guitar.
Great cuts are:
- Delia's Gone
- Drive On
- Tennessee Stud
You guys are great. I like how you don't stop the song half a dozen times to say something.
These songs are just iconic for country life in the past. His voice carries all the way from the past to the present.
A musical note for you: if anyone has ever wondered where that "Chicka-Chicka" sound in the rhythm track came from, it was not a drum. Back in the day, Sun Records was just getting on its feet and couldn't always afford to pay for a session drummer. Thus, what the guy on the rhythm guitar (in this case, it was Johnny) would do would fold up a piece of paper and weave it through the strings of the guitar above the fingers on the frets. That would provide the beat.
You need to check out Tom T. Hall. A remarkable storyteller. He wrote a lot of songs so there's a lot to chose from.
Faster Horses is awesome, and for a laugh I like "I'm pretty good at drinking beer".
@@frndofbear You mean "I Like Beer". Yes its a fun one.
Johnny Cash! One of my favorites, even though you know I'm a metal head LOL. I have bad stage fright when playing live. Sounds silly, but I wear my Johnny Cash t-shirt , and I get through it much easier. Excellent songs to react to. The song Man in Black is very relevant to our immediate day issues I think you reacted to A Boy Named Sue?. And yes, he is listed as Outlaw country. You should watch the movie Walk the Line. It's an old movie but I myself only watched it a couple weeks ago. His life story. Reese Witherspoon is in it. Sorry for the long comment, but also check out God will strike you down. The video consists of the people that were at his funeral. And it's a very powerful song
My trick when i still played was to wear a hat and pull it down over my eyes XD
@@EgonTheGreat. It is so nerve-wracking! And then you beat yourself up after because you know you didn't perform well because you were so Nervous! Thanks for the tip though brother!
Yes. Less is more. Especially when you have the charisma he has. Thats about all you need. Also never overshadows the brilliance of his lyrics. Also does cover songs with so much respect and raw Cash talent!!✌✌✌
Ring of Fire was the first Johnny Cash song I bought way back in 1962. It is pure gold. Let me recommend a movie to you: Murder in Coweta County. It’s a fact-based story in which Johnny plays a small-town sheriff after a murderer played by Andy Griffith (that’s right, Andy of Mayberry as the bad guy). Johnny brings the same authenticity to his role that he does to his music.
I'm pretty sure Cash is considered "Country".
@Grayson Pitman Country first, then other genres. But always country first.
Actually, I think he was pretty instrumental in the current rock genre as well. He's touched so many people.
He was part of Outlaw Country with Waylon, Merle, Willie
A lot of his early stuff was on the rock charts first, though you are far more likely to hear those songs on the Classic Country station today.
@Grayson Pitman Blues, yes. Rockabilly, no way.
He got some flak for using trumpets in a country song. Try When the Man Comes Around . I think it was the last song Johnny Cash wrote.
I'm born and raised in the south Bronx. I wish all black people were like you guys. I realize from watching yous interact that it's not nature but nurture. You wouldn't hate me for being born white, and I wouldn't have to hate you out of fear for my life. You guys rock.
I love that you’re wearing a Metallica shirt and listening to Johnny Cash. Brilliant. Music is amazing.
He's country but back in the day the country folk thought he was more rock & roll and an outlaw, he was a wild bad boy type.
P.s. YES he’s considered country and he’s the best! ❤️. Wow your man has that deep voice like Johnny Cash…if you ever hear him talk about a song he was going to sing he’d come and tell you and your man has the voice for it…impressive…👍👍
Oh my. These are my 2 favorite Johnny Cash songs. The man's a legend.
2 years on, y'all probably know already, but his early style was considered Rockabilly music. A combination of country, blues, and gospel. It eventually divides into other genres such as surf rock, western swing, outlaw country and rock and roll.
I did a couple years in Folsom prison and Johnny is everywhere in that prison, pictures and paintings everywhere. That prison is crazy. You can't hear the train anymore but you can still see the tracks from the yard
That was great. I can really feel you vibing to it.
As my mother used to say, "Johnny Cash is as country as corn bread!" He performed that live at Folsom Prison and when he came out with the line "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" the inmates went nuts! I have been a fan of Johnny Cash for about 50 years! Yep, I'm older than dirt. When I saw him perform "Hurt" it was very painful for me to watch because the lyrics were so sad and because he had lived some of those lyrics. After watching him perform "Hurt" I had to do something to get myself back in a better mood so I found his "Boy Named Sue". "A Boy Named Sue", "The one on the right is on the left" and "One Piece at a Time" are all great "happy" songs by JC and I would love to see your reaction to any of these more up-beat songs by Cash. I think two of the most beautiful songs by Johnny Cash are "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and "Here Comes That Rainbow Again" both of which were written by Kris Kristofferson.
Maryann Anderson The one on the right is on the left! Haven't thought of that song in years. Couldn't be more relevant today. Somebody should do a modern cover of it.
"Hurt" was a cover of the original artists, Nine Inch Nails.
Johnny Cash sang at San Quentin Prison in 1968. You can bet those prisoners were on their feet, stomping, screaming and cheering so loud that prison officials were worried that maybe this concert was a huge mistake. Many of Cash's songs were "cross-over" hits, on both the country and rock charts. His wife, June Carter Cash, wrote "Ring of Fire" about their illicit love affair while they were married to others. They got divorced from those partners and married each other and were married for 50+ years, until she died in 2015. Johnny Cash was so bereft without her he died just five months later.
Johnny had written & performed more classics by 1958 when he left Sun Studio's than most do in a lifetime...For me Cash's music always had that country flavour but definitely had a rockabilly overtone during his time at Sun...
Johnny was his own genre.
I love old country music. Especially the man in black Johnny Cash. He used to have a variety show that I watched weekly with my parents and grandparents. The 70s had many variety shows. I consider myself to be very lucky when all these icons were alive and went to see them concerts.
Johnny went to jail for drinking, but he never went to prison, he just performed at them. He's one of the greatest country singers of all time, he was a living legend.
He was a treasure. Hank sr and hank jr are amazing!!
I grew up on Johnny Cash on old country music so to see people appreciating what kind of music but I grew up Listening to I am very thankful for that
I love that Tasha's instinct is to sing along with the background singers. Also, I have that Captain America t-shirt, too.
Tasha gives the best reactions and cap is the best!
Johnny Cash was one of four Sun Record artists known as the Million Dollar Quartet that also included Elvis Presley and another long lost great from the early days of Rock N Roll Carl Perkins. There is a story that before a performance on the Louisiana Hayride out in the gravel parking lot Johnny wrote a new song (I don't remember which one) with Elvis and Perkins looking over his shoulder. It was his first number one hit. With Elvis and Perkins looking over your shoulder it could only have turned out as a number one hit.
Country and rock! With a very small touch of blues. Every song he sings is amazing. Listen to Chuck Berry next. Song is "Johnny.B goode. He is so amazing! I HOPE everyone loves his voice and lyrics. Along side the rhythm. He influenced what rock is today!
The idea for the trumpets came to Johnny in a dream. First country song to ever have them.
Johnny is a legend. Country music was his vessel but he is more than country, he is an american landmark a national treasure. And mind that i am Greek :-) Oh btw Jamel sent me
I went to a show, once, in Auburn, AL. The bands didn't show up. It was supposed to be 2 or 3 punk bands. Someone said, "Hey, I'm gonna play for a minute." They jumped on the stage and played Ring of Fire. Someone else said they could do it better... so they played Ring of Fire. Then another. It turned into like 6 different people getting up to just play this one song, trying to one-up the other guys. It was awesome.