What more do you want ? It’s Johnny Cash in a prison talking shit about the prison he’s singing in.
142 Johnny Cash – At San Quentin
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That image from this concert of Cash flipping off the camera (https://www.nme.com/news/music/johnny-cash-19-1292708) is so appropriate for who he was. Flipping off a photographer who you are paying to take pictures of your concert because you’re pretending you are doing it to an authority figure perfectly sums up Johnny Cash.
Everything about him was a put-on, which could likely be said about all artists, but the crudeness of the act is particularly galling about Cash. It’s like pretentious music nerds are given a choice of two artists who are deep-voiced and vastly over-hyped to stan and they have to choose between Johnny Cash or Tom Waits.
I’m not saying he wasn’t good. I’m definitely not saying he didn’t surround himself with talented artists, especially The Carter Family. But the distance between the quality of his output and the esteem in which he’s held is absurd.
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