This past weekend we saw Walk the Line and ever since I can’t stop listening to Johnny Cash‘s live At Folsom Prison album and I absolutely cannot get this song out of my head:
Folsom Prison Blues
I hear the train a comin’; it’s rollin’ ’round the bend,
And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when.
I’m stuck at Folsom Prison and time keeps draggin’ on.
But that train keeps rollin’ on down to San Antone.
When I was just a baby, my mama told me, “Son,
Always be a good boy; don’t ever play with guns.”
But I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
When I hear that whistle blowin’ I hang my head and cry.
I bet there’s rich folk eatin’ in a fancy dining car.
They’re probably drinkin’ coffee and smokin’ big cigars,
But I know I had it comin’, I know I can’t be free,
But those people keep a movin’, and that’s what tortures me.
Well, if they freed me from this prison, if that railroad train was mine,
I bet I’d move on over a little farther down the line,
Far from Folsom Prison, that’s where I want to stay,
And I’d let that lonesome whistle blow my blues away.
I was the same way for a few days, also! I had to remind myself a few times that it wasn’t actually Johnny Cash that I was watching on screen!
There is something so compelling about his music. I start to write this hoping that perhaps this time I can put into words what draws me so to his work, but oh well. If you want a real treat head here for these un-released duets with Bob Dylan and Mr. Cash.
There is something so compelling about his music. I start to write this hoping that perhaps this time I can put into words what draws me so to his work, but oh well. If you want a real treat head here for these un-released duets with Bob Dylan and Mr. Cash.
Did you like the movie? We thought it was really long…then again, that could have been because of the 1/2 of previews we had to watch before the actual movie started…
i liked it a lot but there was one point where i was kind of tired of the guy gets married, gets famous, cheats, abuses drugs, drys out, gets more famous, etc. still, i thought it was a good story and one i didn’t know really at all. im sick of people comparing it to Ray (which i loved), but compared to ray it’s got to be a notch up bc joaquin and reese sang the songs themselves.
kent, the links to the mp3s.. they seem to not be there.
“live at folsom prison” is great, but i suggest you also pick up “from san quentin” – same tour, i think a few nights later. the interplay between johnny and the crowd is amazing.
Sometimes I can’t get Cash’s cover of Soundgarden’s ‘Rusty Cage’ out of my head.
When I was younger I did see Jhonny Cash in person In Green Bay
It was before he married June Carter
Well I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad
So I had more for dessert
Then I fumbled in my closet through my cloths
And found my cleanest dirty shirt
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day
Id smoked my mind the night before
With cigareettes and songs I been pickin
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playing with a can that he was kicking
Then I walked across the street
And cought the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken
And it took me back to somethin
That I lost some how along the way
On a Sunday morning side walk
Im whishing the Lord I was stonesd
Cause there’s something In a Sunday
That makes a body feel alone
And there’s nothing short of dying
Thats half as lonesome as the sound
Of a sleepin city side walk
And Sunday mornin comin down
In the park I saw daddy
With a laughin little girl who was singin
And I stoped beside a Sunday school
And listened to the songs theywere singin
Then I headed down the street
And some where far away a lonely bell was ringin
And it echoed threw the canyon
Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday
This is a song I heared a long time ago and it just stayed with me
take care Dad
I could have watched two more hours of this movie. It’s easily in my top 5 this year. iTunes has all of his American Recordings records for dirt cheap prices (or they did when I drunk-downloaded them all two weeks ago).
I just saw this yesterday, and agree it was fantastic.
I find it humorous, but intriguing, that the soundtrack to this movie is actually the actors and actresses from the movie singing the songs they sang in the movie. It’s like a tribute album to Cash and Carter.
He looked a littlebit like Jhonny