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.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifezette.com ...
“When The Man Comes Around” ... he said that was the hardest song he ever wrote.
I was at more than one Johnny Cash show where he was too wired to perform or when he did perform, he couldn’t sing for beans. June Carter called him “Cash” when he was being his stoked, difficult self. This article is willfully blind.
Johnny released 11 gospel albums, pretty good stuff.
I was so mad when Robert Duvall did not win best actor for “The Apostle.” He so deserved it & it remains one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Farrah Fawcett was also amazing in it.
I have The Gospel Road DVD. I had the sound track back in the 70’s.
When the Man Comes Around is my favorite Johnny Cash song. It’s miraculous. After it, comes Hurt. If you go to this website, you can hear The Man first, and then stay tuned for Hurt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA
It’s worth every minute. Just take the address down if you don’t have time to listen now.
I just have to say, when Johnny Cash was in a Columbo episode, he was a gospel singer even though he did a bad thing. Good episode.
In the text you linked to, middle of page 55, the author gets the date and cause of Elvis’ death wrong. That’s an easily verified fact, which makes the entire source suspect
Cash freely admitted he was not perfect, and did a lot of good in the world.
No sale for you.
Johnny Cash - It Was Jesus #StraightOuttaCompton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFwK_ZTCfLc
Can’t imagine tv airing such a thing today or Compton welcoming such entertainers again, let alone that audience
When the man comes around has a very unique tune as well. I have Hurt on a DVD and I’ve seen the other. Both are interesting to say the least. IIRC the last songs were cut after June died and he was getting in poor health.
“Hurt” followed when I viewed it first, but not when I went back to it from here. If people can’t find it, it’s here:
Johnny Cash was a meth tweaking dirtbag who relished his “outlaw” bullshyte image.
From what I’ve personally observed, the apples bearing his name didn’t fall too far from the magic tree, either.
Wobbling in an hour late for a gig - stumbling into the bathroom looking like warmed over cat puke... and coming out all chirpy.
Yeah, man/family of God my arse. Whoever’s trying to jump start ol’ Johnie’s image is full of whatever.
NO SALE.
>>This article is willfully blind.
Milo and Cash. Posterboy’s of the “new” conservatism.
The right-wing press has managed to tunnel through the bottom of the barrel and are headed straight to Hell for the personalities they’ll prop up for the sheeple to bleat about and follow.
Cash was a prototypical SJW - an empty sack looking for a cause. Not surprising at all the “posterboy” makers are trying to recycle him into the latest and greatest Judas goat.
Yeah, you’re pure as the driven snow.
That's just a touch deeper lyrically than "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Shake, Rattle, and Roll," both famously covered and performed by Elvis Presley. That's because Cash wasn't walking just any line. He was trying his best to walk a Christian line.That's nice; but this stanza from the same song ---
What was the SJW “Man of great faith” doing in the desert with the windows of his camper all blacked out again?
His camper “The Jesse James”. LOL. Yeah great idol there.
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WOW. What an interesting and wonderful story about the “Man in Black.”
Cicero, this is a powerful song and one of the last songs Cash wrote before his death.
The Man Comes Around
“And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder
One of the four beasts saying,
‘Come and see.’ and I saw, and behold a white horse”
There’s a man goin’ ‘round takin’ names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won’t be treated all the same
There’ll be a golden ladder reachin’ down
When the man comes around
The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter’s ground?
When the man comes around
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singin’
Multitudes are marchin’ to the big kettledrum
Voices callin’, voices cryin’
Some are born and some are dyin’
It’s alpha and omega’s kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks
Till armageddon no shalam, no shalom
Then the father hen will call his chickens home
The wise man will bow down before the throne
And at his feet they’ll cast their golden crowns
When the man comes around
Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the man comes around
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singin’
Multitudes are marchin’ to the big kettledrum
Voices callin’, voices cryin’
Some are born and some are dyin’
It’s alpha and omega’s kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It’s hard for thee to kick against the prick
In measured hundredweight and penny pound
When the man comes around
“And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
And I looked, and behold a pale horse
And his name that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him”
Songwriters: Johnny Cash
Every Saint has a past
Every sinner has a future
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