Posted on 08/09/2024 2:08:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Johnny Cash Statue To Be Erected In U.S. Capitol On September 24th, the Man in Black will become the first professional musician to receive a statue in the U.S. Capitol’s Emancipation Hall.
A statue of Johnny Cash will soon stand in the U.S. Capitol, making him the first professional musician ever to receive the honor.
A statement from Congress dated July 31st confirmed that the Man in Black’s statue at Emancipation Hall will be unveiled in a morning ceremony on September 24th. The statue will join the National Statuary Hall Collection. The announcement was signed by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Each U.S. state has two statues allotted to it in the National Statuary Hall Collection, intended to celebrate notable figures from the state’s history. Cash’s statue represents Arkansas—he was born in Dyess—and marks the state’s second statue. The other depicts civil rights activist Daisy Bates. In 2019, Arkansas passed a bill to switch out existing statues of Sen. James P. Clark and lawyer Uriah Rose with new representations of Bates and Cash.
Cash’s statue will be crafted by Little Rock sculptor Kevin Kresse. It will reportedly be eight feet tall, and depict the musician with a Bible and a Guitar. “I think the honesty of his work, the truth in his lyrics and the simplicity and straightforward way of getting that message across just spoke to me as an artist as well,” Kresse told NPR’s Scott Simon in a May interview.
Earlier this year, the posthumous Cash album Songwriter was released via Mercury Nashville/UMe. He recorded the bulk of the record during sessions in 1993, about a decade before his death.
Definitely a ring of fire.
I loved Johnny Cash, but he wasn’t exactly a person to look up to in many aspects. I think he knew this, and would consider this silly pap. Like I do.
I’m not quite sure why he is the first musician to have statue there.
I enjoy his work. But really?
“I”’m not quite sure why he is the first musician to have statue there.
So it can be vandalized/torn down because he recorded:
1. “Song of the Patriot” Shirl Milete / Marty Robbins 3:28
2. “Paul Revere” (with dialogue) Glenn Tubb 2:43
3. “Gettysburg Address” (with dialogue) Abraham Lincoln 2:40
4. “Man in Black” Johnny Cash 2:51
5. “From Sea to Shining Sea” Johnny Cash 1:38
6. “Mr Garfield” Ramblin’ Jack Elliott 3:59
7. “Sold Out of Flag Poles” Johnny Cash 2:46
8. “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” Peter La Farge 4:11
9. “Singing in Vietnam Talking Blues” Johnny Cash
10. “Ragged Old Flag” Johnny Cash 3:09
New from China: “Johnny Cash has been erected president.”
I like Johnny Cash, but why?
He himself would say no to this.
Bleeding together celebrity with politicians is a bane.
It cultivates the totalitarianism which increases daily.
It’s their ‘empire of dirt.’
Johnny Cash is tied with Buck Owens as my favorite male county singer. But Cash was just that, a singer. You’d think they’d reserve this honor for someone who really sacrificed something for his state or his country.
Anyway, what’s the deal with Pennsylvania? Taylor Swift was born there, yet Pennsylvania has not erected a statue of her in Emancipation Hall.
Get with the program, Keystone State.
Is this the location where Nanzi had every statue of a slave-owning southerner removed?
“I’m not quite sure why he is the first musician to have statue there.”
Me either. Remember Trump’s idea of having “statue gardens” all around in our country?
He sang “A boy named Sue” That’s why
Washington DC is an appropriate place for a statue of an adulterer and alcohol/drug addict.
I believe he was the main act at the 1976 Bicentennial in DC (I was a child at the time)
Rick Ross? Tupac? Eddie Fisher?
Jerry Vale?
That’s probably my least favorite song by him.
Pittsburgh took down their sculpture of Stephen Foster due to racial reasons.
It’s not the song, it’s the title.
Those are all good songs but I feel confident that in light of current stupidity abounding across America, the song that got the statue is “A Boy Named Sue”
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