Posted on 11/19/2017 4:19:50 PM PST by ForYourChildren
Here's ..side of the musician you didn’t see in the film 'Walk the Line,' released 12 years ago this weekend.
Johnny Cash had two loves, and we all met one of them thanks to the biopic “Walk the Line,” which was released in 2005. Her name was June Carter.
But Cash had another love. A higher love. One never mentioned by name in the movie: Jesus Christ.
There are some hints about that other love in the film. In an early scene, a young Cash, played brilliantly by Joaquin Phoenix, is auditioning for the man he hopes might make him the next Elvis Presley: Sam Phillips, the Sun Records impresario. Cash walks into the small Memphis studio and begins playing a Gospel song.
Phillips isn’t moved and tells Cash he should play something more meaningful — more relevant. “No one listens to Gospel anymore,” Phillips said to the young Cash.
Cash plays a secular song, gets signed, and the rest was history — at least in the movie version. But it turns out that in real life, Cash never stopped playing Gospel music. Almost a quarter of the songs he wrote were in some way about his faith or the Bible. In addition, Cash recorded the entire King James version of the New Testament, performed at many Billy Graham revivals, and even made a movie about the life of Jesus. In his spare time, Cash studied the Bible more than most Ph.D.s in divinity. Somehow, none of that made it onto the screen during the 136-minute running time of "Walk the Line."
Stripping Jesus Christ out of Johnny Cash's life story is like leaving naked 19-year-old girls out of Hugh Hefner's — or telling the story of Jackie Robinson without mentioning his race or segregation. It's that serious an omission.
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>>Does that sound like he’s pining for his soul, or an absent lover?
Or lamenting the metaphorical ties that bound him to a line of whatever and the deal he and many other “outlaws” made at some crossroads for fame and wherever?
I guess it could mean a lot of things - depending on the context.
That was the only Columbo where the bad guy should have gotten away with it.
Who didn’t feel sad when he was finally caught.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=johnny+cash+personal+jesus+official+video
So, in your opinion, people can’t change?
Hey! Phat. I’d tell you to jam a sharp stick in your eye, but I’m sure that would lead to a logjam. Ass. Prick. Ban me.
I wonder if he changed?
Boo, Bitter Tears, hoo.
LMAO. You really have a disturbing hatred for Johnny Cash.
I can’t say if Johnny Cash was a true Christian or not. But, I can safely say that you are not.
Cash-cow’s SJW discography indicates “change” seemed to depend whatever sold at the record store.
If he’d changed his commercial view of the war in Viet Nam a year or two sooner - he could’ve gone on tour with Jane Fonda... since they pretty much seemed to end up on the same fake page and all.
The Hanoi Jane and Johnny show.
Would’ve had to take the black off the windows of his desert methmobile first though — especially since Hollywood hadn’t invented driving with The Force yet, and they probably couldn’t have driven it very far in meth-mode.
In general, I think people put to much emphasis on a man who can write a song and sing.
But that’s just me.
Well your spiritual, tolerant, progressive opinion is duly noted.
James 4:11-12
>>In general, I think people put to much emphasis on a man who can write a song and sing.
There’s a multi-billion dollar industry that specializes in emphasis, in general.
Ask Herbert Marcuse how it runs.
Luke 17:1-4
Run that by the record execs at Judas Goats-R-Us
Thank you for this post. Reminders of a good man and God’s mercy for those who accept Jesus as savior.
Also, upon investigating Glen Campbell I was amazed at how very Christian he was and the amazing testimony he had.
Luke 17:1-4
How many sheep ya s’pose Two-face Johnny and members of the “outlaw” record herd led up the ramp to the slaughter house in the 60’s before gittin’ all spiritualized, Jack?
http://progressive.org/dispatches/happy-birthday-johnny-cash-remember-fighter-native-rights/
Neal Diamond. Writes, produces, sings. Great guy.
June Carter was married three times and had one child with each h
usband.
Cash had sex with her sister.
Both divorced their partners to marry.
There was another song writer much more well known and he was too a musician. In his lifetime he was hunted down to be killed by a man whom he had spared his life. The musician and writer loved GOD. Yet this man would send his best friend into a circumstance in which he knew his friend would be killed. He did so because he wanted his wife. He did not want the scandal of simply taking his friends wife so he had him killed. I think we all know of whom I am talking about.
None of us are perfect nor without sin we break the least Commandment we've broken them all. There are song writers I disagree with politically as well as singers. I may not even agree with their entire religious beliefs. Yet they have written or sang some great songs. Ever hear of Paul Stookey? A man very liberal but also a long time devout Christian. He penned a song for a friends wedding and sang it. Someone heard it and talked him into recording it and he did. But he refused "ALL" profits from the only hit he by himself would ever have. Many have had the song played in church weddings it is called The Wedding Song aka There is love.
Willie Nelson's lifestyle isn't for me my party days are almost four decades behind me by The Grace of GOD. Yet Nelson's best work IMO was an album he did called The Troublemaker. It is basically songs out of the Broadman Hymnal. Ones he likely sang in church with his sister growing up. I bought it while I was on ship in cassette form and wore out sever and then sever albums of it afterwards and I still have it in CD form today. It came out in about 1976. I also by listening to it eventually learned to play a guitar and play the songs on that album. Vern Gosdin did a version of Jesus Hold My Hand my dad and I would play together. Larry Gatlin had alcohol issues. He penned a song called "Help Me".
GOD uses people and He uses their talents he gave them. OK to me it boils down to this. To whom do they give the glory? Did anyone know Eric Clapton recorded Swing Low Sweet Chariot? Ever hear of the Hee Haw Quartet? What about that one guy in it huh? What we are earlier in life and what we become later in life should be an improvement by learning from mistakes and if a person listens becoming more focused on listening to GOD. We also don't really know their personal battles.
I mentioned Hank Williams Sr. in a previous post. In Gospel music terms I saw the light comes to most mind. He wrote many including House of Gold two of many more in his short 29 years of life. Many of his songs weren't secular they were Gospel. He drank and was known for pills. Yeah and he hid a serious spinal condition that he was born with that caused him great pain and likely in those days contribute to his early death.
What about Charlie Daniels? His first song Uneasy Rider. Then Long haired country boy. The devil went down to Georgia two versions. Yet he is also a devout Christian and penned "Two out of three" which is a song that goes straight to the heart of what I've posted." Sweet Jesus how could you love me? Because when I've had a choice between good and bad I picked bad two out of three. Calling Daniels a liberal sure won't cut it LOL.
GOD uses people for His message and purposes and they may very well not be what some consider refined persons. But they have helped persons including me. My favorite song? "Why Me Lord?" So simple and to the point. None of us know how many persons Johnny Cash or anyone in their witness may have lead to Christ. Johnny and June in their later years became more focused on their relationship with Christ but still faced their trials.
They were artist so was King David. He was a musician and a song writer. How does his sins compare to Johnny or June? It doesn't matter. They were in faith saved by the Grace of GOD declaring them to be righteous. It is not man opinions.
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