May I just say as someone who loves ALL music...R&R my fav. I include Tenor Opera, Beck, Post Malone, Eminem, etc....btw I'm 62 so I go from Mario Lanza to Ozzy who of course is my greatest hero in music...dude...how have you not heard of Johnny Cash!???? He is an Icon and Legend who is timeless and genre-less. He is to decades of people what Ozzy is to me. Enjoy and make it a note to get to know Mr. Cash. You won't regret it. Try Mario Lanza's Pagliacci. I'm all about voices and he has it! When it comes to music there must be no barriers to truly appreciate it all. Then and only then will you become a true musical aficionado. 🤘🎭🔊🎼🎶🎙💿
Nobody is ever really quite ready to hear that song for the first time. It's hard to listen to, and yet I think it is well worth listening to. Good reaction.
His wife, June Carter Cash (woman in the video), died 3 months after the release of this video. 💔 Johnny followed her about 5 months later. His daughter told him the song sounded like a goodbye and he told her it was. *sighs* I've heard a few reactors say he was singing his own eulogy and I'd have to agree. He had a hard life and made many mistakes he couldn't take back. I think he realized it deeply near the end. Things he worked so hard for, awards, big house, and fame, don't really matter. People do. Love does.
Bring tears to my eyes every time I hear it. I am 50, and Old fashioned farm raised, men don't cry guy. I cry every single time. Don't care who sees me. Hard not to, and I love it. I know its coming, and I don't care.
You were shook. Don't worry. Everyone is shook listening to this song done by Johnny. Written by someone else, performed by Cash as a goodbye, filmed at an old Johnny Cash Museum, then his wife and shortly after he left this plane. This is one of the absolute best music videos ever. Johnny honored Trent Reznor's song yet made it completely his own at the same time. And once again...I am shook listening and watching one more time. Blessings.
When Trent Reznor of NIN fame heard this cover, he famously said "It's not my song anymore". With Trent it's about young angst and despair. With Johnnie it's about a lifetime of pain, sadness and addiction as he says goodbye to us all. It's so poignant
The song is a test of empathy. I honestly feel that if somebody can listen to this and not feel a deep emotion within them, that I just couldn’t trust them.
He had tremendous drug problems in his younger years so the song at it's core applies to a lot of the issues he had and the problems they caused for his family. The imagery in this video is heartbreaking, especially the closed Johnny Cash tourist traps, broken gold record, etc. It tears you up when you see his wife looking on, knowing she passed shortly after the video. Very emotional, lots of reflection, lots of regret.
Pretty sure it is impossible to listen to this song without some moisture in the eyes. Thank you for your reaction. He captures the pain in this song (and in his life) so beautifully in this - makes it difficult to remember that he didn't write it. The lyrics aren't much easier than the song.
I'm a Progrock guy but I grew up around old school country and folk, and I have much love and respect for these genres. Johnny Cash and his story is one of extreme poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse and addiction, infidelity, criminal behavior, a Love Story, Redemption and Reflection.
Gotta be one of the realist songs even though it was written by somebody else lol it’s the one everyone can connect with. Loss, regret, loneliness and pain.
Johnny Cash was the man in black. He toured with Elvis Presley and was a popular outlaw country artist. The song he sang, Hurt, is a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. A Johnny Cash song you might be familiar with is Ring of Fire. This version of the song was so moving.
It’s a song about deep, deep regret. Of everything he wished he could go back and change. Of how his priorities were screwed up……..The old man at the end of the road and looking back with sadness….realizing that love is what really matters….and what mattered all along…not money….not fame. But that’s a journey that seems to be have to be learned over and over again, individually. You usually cannot convince the young of the wisdom spoken of here. That have to take that journey themselves.
Johnny Cash reminds me of someone who was bombarded his whole life with extremes, and this song is trying to make sense of all he's experienced. What does the fame and money and notoriety all mean when the end of life is staring you in the face? Every single one of us will only have his or her memories...
I have seen more than 12 reactions to hurt....everybody gets speechless and trying "to digest" what they just watched/listened. There is few pieces of art where you can witness someone who had great success deal in front of everybody with regret, the past, the joy, the love, the loss, the limits of human life, the end.....if you are not about to cry is because you are just too happy and healthy and young.
I swear I never watch this song without tearing up. I always get excited when I find a new reactor (for me) who does this song. Thank you. I love any chance to hear it. I think it is worth checking out the original too.
I feel like if you live as long as Johnny did, the weariness of holding all that knowledge, all the pain, all the regrets, all the memories ( happy and sad ) just eventually wears you down and if illness doesn't take you first, you'll succumb to that weariness.
Trent Reznor, who wrote and recorded the original said, after hearing this, it's Johnny's song now. He passed away about 6 months after recording this.
Johnny Cash - The Man in Black. Johnny wore black to all of his concerts after a certain point, to demonstrate his solidarity with the guys in prison. He wore it so he wouldn't forget about them. Because of his troubles and how he sang about that, he would get a lot a mail from guys in prison. Try "Folsom Prison Blues". He sang that in the prison for the inmates. I didn't like traditional country music as a teenager (in the '70s). But I loved this. I really appreciate your page and your authenticity. Thanks so much.
When I was 3 years old, we moved from the Netherlands to El Paso for 1 year where my father got to know Johnny Cash. I heard his music all my youth and 2 years ago when my father passed away, we played this song at his funeral, all thankful for the music my father brought into our lives. And thank you for reminding me all of that 🙏
I know this was a year ago, but I’m just watching now. I got straight chills when you said you’d never heard a Johnny Cash song. To hear this as your first one is going to go straight to your soul. I haven’t even watched the reaction yet. Excellent choice. Hope you’ve heard some more since 🤗.
Johnny Cash was 71 years old in this video. He looks 95. I want to say years of hard living caught up with him, but Stevie Nicks is 74, looks 50, and snorted half the cocaine in the northern hemisphere.
Trent said he got a call from JC's people asking if he could cover it. Trent agreed and forgot about it thinking it didn't happen. When he heard this version later he said something to the effect of it felt like someone else was kissing his girlfriend. Later Trent realized Johnny Cash had taken this song, made it his own and now it was forever his. The history on how this powerful video was made is also a twist of fate and wasn't planned. I found it genuine and fascinating how it came about and the powerful images of his childhood home etc fit this song perfectly! Johnny was also dyslexic I learned (my son is also) and I became a fan of his after watching a movie he starred in. The man in black is a true fascinating character of history and legend. I could never know enough! Also FYI there is a good version of Hurt featuring David Bowie singing with Trent and NIN live.
I just stumbled across your channel just a few min ago. I have listened to many music reactors, and you seem to have the most genuine reaction, i feel. This was quite humbling, and i cannot wait to watch more!! Peace.
Johnny Cash had the amazing ability to cover songs and make them sound like he wrote them. You might want to listen to his covers of Chris Cornell or Tom Petty or even his wonderful cover of a Sting ballad. The man was amazing.
Trent wrote it about addiction. Johnny interpretation was the end of life and reflecting on his life and all his regrets. That version speaks to everyone because we all know well be there someday, having to face the choices made and all the people that came and went in our lives, because death is the great equalizer. Rich or poor, mansion or trailer park, black or white, gay or straight, famous or obscure, it'll come for us all. The last line about if he could start over again He tried to keep himself. That's the big lesson,. He had changed himself to fit what the label wanted what his fans wanted, and basically sell his souk, Leading to addiction, in fidelity's, pain in heart ache. This because he surrounded by records doesn't make him happy. Now he has to face all the bridges that he burned. He's always really have is our soul and staying true to who we are, because integrity Goes a lot farther than money and fame. So stay to who you are.
It's such a beautiful song. I'm glad you listened to it first. The other version is good but doesn't have that grit or emotion that Johnny Cash gave it, especially with the images he showed in the video. It really was his "goodbye" to the world, making it all the more bittersweet.
I think this is Johnny Cash at his best. He always had a storyteller voice but it just expanded with age. I'm a lifelong Johnny fan. So glad to see you feel what he shared with us.
I'm not a "Country" music fan however Mr Cash has a special even proud place in my life. Maybe because he reminds me of my Father who left our family when I was 10 or so (never to be seen again). Mr Cash gives riches out to those that listened to him. Much more than an Empire of Dirt!
An absolute icon in the world of music - forget the 'country' label. He was way beyond genres. One of my favorit clips of Johnny is from his variety show in the early 70s -- Johnny, the legendary Carl Perkins, and Eric Clapton singing together on some of Carl's iconic rockabilly songs.
Love hearing his songs and messages message. He lost his wife June 4 months prior to his own death. To me you can hear that depression of loss . He had a rough life. My dad played (guitar) of alot if his music so I grew up listening to it. Its not that he had a great voice but alot of emotion musically and lyrically. It will make more sense if you read a short bio about him. Awesome reaction, thank you❤
This is such.a good song, but more importantly, this is a masterful performance. His voice is certainly authentic and raw, as was his life at times. Do we all reach that conclusion in the end? Pain still feels like pain, but regret cuts deeper? Or do all the deeds that we regret inevitably lead to the realization and redemption we finally grasp at the end? Love wins, indeed. Wonderful reaction, as always. Peace from Ohio …
I think this song hits such emotion from everyone who hears it, whether you knew who Johnny was or not, bc its a very human song that everyone can understand. The nine inch nails original was about addiction and tho we probably all know someone who is dealing with that not everyone has it themselves. This version is about a man at the end of his life facing regret and loneliness and the totality of his life. Something we all will someday do because it doesn't matter how much fame or money you have, what profession you were or where you live on earth, death is something we all know we have to face someday. And thr lesson here was be careful to not burn too many bridges in life and keep yourself rather than giving yourself away. Treat people decently and hold on to your loved ones bc when death comes it's a journey we all face alone.
I grew up listening to Johnny Cash as my father loved him and so did I. I had the opportunity to see him in concert in Branson, MO in the early 90's. Was an excellent show. Comp tickets and 3rd row center to beat. My father passed 2 years ago at the ago of 87 with a Johnny Cash CD in his car stereo. Such fond memories. The movie Walk the Line is a fabulous movie about his life. I highly recommend it.
The emotion put into this makes you understand why Trent Reznor said it was Johnny's song now but to me the song has an impact by it self but the video takes it to another level I can never make it past the first chorus without starting to tear up this will always be my absolute favorite cover ever by the man in black RIP Johnny and June
Johnny Cash’s rendition of this song always brings a tear to my eye each time I listen. I love that song author Trent Reznor of 9 Inch Nails made a statement that the song is now Johnny’s, great tribute. Johnny Cash was also a reasonably accomplished actor. Talented man!
THE Man in Black...Live He wrote song just before going live on a college campus... Turbulence times back then... Student asked why he always wears Black You'll understand the character of this man... Went to prison for Marijuana, back in 50s. He also does a live show at a prison, great concert live....
Good reaction. Johnny always had his own style and his voice can’t be mistaken for anyone else. The grit and tone is in all of his music. Looking forward to more of your reactions to one of my all time favorite country singers.
Perfect reaction. Quite overwhelming when you really think about what different people, famous and not...have been through, experienced, and how amazing their depth of wisdom isn't it? Not enough people think deep enough unfortunately, recognize the importance of thinking these days, and miss the personal knowledge that can be extracted from music.
Johnny understood Ecclesiastes 1. We all will at some point. The last several years (after 50) I am learning that age brings a perspective about life that you can’t really appreciate til you experience it.
Writen by nine inch nails, even they said its his song now. Cash's wife June Carter died just after this song and vid was released and he died just after. You can see he's close to the end.
Johnny Cash completely reconceptualized the song. The Nine Inch Nails version is incredibly good. Johnny is doing something so totally different that, despite having virtually the same lyrics and musical content, it is really a different piece. Watching an old man singing this song is a totally different experience from hearing a man in his late 20s singing it. Hearing it in a very simple, traditional style is totally different from hearing it with the synthesized effects and distortions of industrial music. When you're dealing with a song as good as this one, both of these drastically different interpretations work perfectly. It's one of the best covers I've ever heard.
The whole song and video hits you like a train. Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) wrote this as a young man raging at the world. Johnny turned it around as a lament really, as an old man looking back over his years, trying to put triumph, torment, and loss into some sort of perspective. He knew his time here was now short. The very end where he closes the piano lid tells me that he knew and his mission on Earth was complete, all the good and the bad. From the fast cuts at the end that include Jesus and the cross he knew where he was going and could now be at peace finally. I'm 75 and frequently go through those reflective periods, and I can see the end of my runway from here. And like Johnny I know where I am going too. Thank you, my God, Lord, and King Jesus. Amen!
As usual, a cogent reaction. David Bowie, close to death, wrote "Lazarus". End of life; trying to come to terms. "Ain't no Grave" is a great song. Thanks .
Hello Thanks for the reaction ;) New subscriber. Kindly react to 4 girls named "4th Impact" a Filipina Girl Group competed on X Factor Britain (4th Power is their name at that time) sang the Jessie J. hit "Bang Bang" garnering a standing ovation from the judges and audiences & It's 187 Million Views.
React to one of his earliest songs - Man in Black -- when he was young and then reflect on this one at the end of his life. Still wearing black. It will add a whole level of meaning to this.
Johnny was a great storyteller. If you want to listen to something lighter with humor that he did then I recommend "A Boy Named Sue", which is one of his most famous songs. Great reaction to a man whose music I have grown up with since the 60's and watched his television appearances.
He had a long, successful career, but he saved the best for last...Trent Reznor wrote this about his struggles with heroin addiction, but Johnny had his own battles with booze and pills, and made it his own. Even Reznor thinks so.
The last song he ever sung before his death, he was a great country singer but he did it the hard way, try the man in black for another song if you want a happy song try a boy named Sue God bless
That song will for sure rip your heart out but if you want to hear a happier song, try "One Piece at a Time", "The One on the Left is on the Right" or "Boy Named Sue". I think his two greatest story-telling songs are "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Here Comes that Rainbow Again." I would love to see you react to any of these songs.
This is magnificent, regretful, wanting a do-over. When he closed the lid on piano, he never played it again. Ring of Fire was done much earlier when he met his wife. He never regretted her. When his daughter, Roseanne Cash heard this, she said to her Dad, "It sounds like goodbye." "It is." Trent Reznor of NIN said this was the most intimate song he ever wrote, and after giving permission for Johnny Cash to sing it he regretted that until he saw the video. "It's not my song now. It's Johnny's".
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A wonderful honest response.
May I just say as someone who loves ALL music...R&R my fav. I include Tenor Opera, Beck, Post Malone, Eminem, etc....btw I'm 62 so I go from Mario Lanza to Ozzy who of course is my greatest hero in music...dude...how have you not heard of Johnny Cash!???? He is an Icon and Legend who is timeless and genre-less. He is to decades of people what Ozzy is to me. Enjoy and make it a note to get to know Mr. Cash. You won't regret it. Try Mario Lanza's Pagliacci. I'm all about voices and he has it! When it comes to music there must be no barriers to truly appreciate it all. Then and only then will you become a true musical aficionado. 🤘🎭🔊🎼🎶🎙💿
To me it was one of the most powerful songs I’ve ever heard
When he closes the piano lid and rubs his hands across the lid it's like he is closing a casket
And it's never been opened since.
Nobody is ever really quite ready to hear that song for the first time. It's hard to listen to, and yet I think it is well worth listening to. Good reaction.
Other Johnny Cash songs....you really can't go wrong with "A Boy named Sue."
His wife, June Carter Cash (woman in the video), died 3 months after the release of this video. 💔 Johnny followed her about 5 months later. His daughter told him the song sounded like a goodbye and he told her it was. *sighs* I've heard a few reactors say he was singing his own eulogy and I'd have to agree. He had a hard life and made many mistakes he couldn't take back. I think he realized it deeply near the end. Things he worked so hard for, awards, big house, and fame, don't really matter. People do. Love does.
Love wins
Perfect reaction. Don’t know what to say. Love it
@@SalvoG That should always be everyone's focus, but ... we are human.
She died *BEFORE* the release of this video. That's why her appearance hit so hard when this came out.
Johnny cash died Shortly after this. Not his wife. This was his last time on camera
Bring tears to my eyes every time I hear it. I am 50, and Old fashioned farm raised, men don't cry guy. I cry every single time. Don't care who sees me. Hard not to, and I love it. I know its coming, and I don't care.
You were shook. Don't worry. Everyone is shook listening to this song done by Johnny. Written by someone else, performed by Cash as a goodbye, filmed at an old Johnny Cash Museum, then his wife and shortly after he left this plane. This is one of the absolute best music videos ever. Johnny honored Trent Reznor's song yet made it completely his own at the same time. And once again...I am shook listening and watching one more time. Blessings.
May be the best cover ever in that they are both great and stand on their own
When Trent Reznor of NIN fame heard this cover, he famously said "It's not my song anymore". With Trent it's about young angst and despair. With Johnnie it's about a lifetime of pain, sadness and addiction as he says goodbye to us all. It's so poignant
R.i.P Legend 🙏🏻👑🎶
Johnny transcended genres, and was loved by artists in all areas of music.
The song is a test of empathy. I honestly feel that if somebody can listen to this and not feel a deep emotion within them, that I just couldn’t trust them.
He had tremendous drug problems in his younger years so the song at it's core applies to a lot of the issues he had and the problems they caused for his family. The imagery in this video is heartbreaking, especially the closed Johnny Cash tourist traps, broken gold record, etc. It tears you up when you see his wife looking on, knowing she passed shortly after the video. Very emotional, lots of reflection, lots of regret.
Pretty sure it is impossible to listen to this song without some moisture in the eyes. Thank you for your reaction. He captures the pain in this song (and in his life) so beautifully in this - makes it difficult to remember that he didn't write it. The lyrics aren't much easier than the song.
Johnny Cash is in the Country and Rock and Roll Hall Of Fames
I'm a Progrock guy but I grew up around old school country and folk, and I have much love and respect for these genres.
Johnny Cash and his story is one of extreme poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse and addiction, infidelity, criminal behavior, a Love Story, Redemption and Reflection.
Gotta be one of the realist songs even though it was written by somebody else lol it’s the one everyone can connect with. Loss, regret, loneliness and pain.
When i watch this video and hear the song, my heart rate goes up, i hold my breath. It is one of those songs that just get me right in the heart
Johnny Cash was the man in black. He toured with Elvis Presley and was a popular outlaw country artist. The song he sang, Hurt, is a cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. A Johnny Cash song you might be familiar with is Ring of Fire. This version of the song was so moving.
It’s a song about deep, deep regret. Of everything he wished he could go back and change. Of how his priorities were screwed up……..The old man at the end of the road and looking back with sadness….realizing that love is what really matters….and what mattered all along…not money….not fame. But that’s a journey that seems to be have to be learned over and over again, individually. You usually cannot convince the young of the wisdom spoken of here. That have to take that journey themselves.
The powerful imagery, the emotion & the presence of “The Man In Black” in this song 🥲 This one really tugs on my heart 💔
Johnny Cash reminds me of someone who was bombarded his whole life with extremes, and this song is trying to make sense of all he's experienced.
What does the fame and money and notoriety all mean when the end of life is staring you in the face?
Every single one of us will only have his or her memories...
I have seen more than 12 reactions to hurt....everybody gets speechless and trying "to digest" what they just watched/listened. There is few pieces of art where you can witness someone who had great success deal in front of everybody with regret, the past, the joy, the love, the loss, the limits of human life, the end.....if you are not about to cry is because you are just too happy and healthy and young.
I heard at the end when he closes his Piano he never opened it again. R.I.P. Johnny - The Man In Black - Cash, and June Carter Cash.
This was just too much for me to bear - Johnny's heartbreak was evident and June's passing just ended him.
I swear I never watch this song without tearing up. I always get excited when I find a new reactor (for me) who does this song. Thank you. I love any chance to hear it. I think it is worth checking out the original too.
Listen to "A Boy Named Sue" for a good laugh. It was actually written by Shel Silverstein whose children's poems we read as kids.
Johnny lived a legendary life with music and movies. This was his farewell. He has many great story-telling songs. Check out more of his older stuff.
I feel like if you live as long as Johnny did, the weariness of holding all that knowledge, all the pain, all the regrets, all the memories ( happy and sad ) just eventually wears you down and if illness doesn't take you first, you'll succumb to that weariness.
He has a lot of fun songs. "Boy Named Sue" and "One Piece At A Time" would be good for contrast to this, which is HEAVY.
"Cup of coffee" is another fun one!
The build up feels like the inexorable passage of time to me. This one always brings tears to my eyes
Trent Reznor, who wrote and recorded the original said, after hearing this, it's Johnny's song now. He passed away about 6 months after recording this.
Johnny Cash - The Man in Black. Johnny wore black to all of his concerts after a certain point, to demonstrate his solidarity with the guys in prison. He wore it so he wouldn't forget about them. Because of his troubles and how he sang about that, he would get a lot a mail from guys in prison. Try "Folsom Prison Blues". He sang that in the prison for the inmates. I didn't like traditional country music as a teenager (in the '70s). But I loved this. I really appreciate your page and your authenticity. Thanks so much.
When I was 3 years old, we moved from the Netherlands to El Paso for 1 year where my father got to know Johnny Cash. I heard his music all my youth and 2 years ago when my father passed away, we played this song at his funeral, all thankful for the music my father brought into our lives. And thank you for reminding me all of that 🙏
I know this was a year ago, but I’m just watching now. I got straight chills when you said you’d never heard a Johnny Cash song. To hear this as your first one is going to go straight to your soul. I haven’t even watched the reaction yet. Excellent choice. Hope you’ve heard some more since 🤗.
Johnny Cash was 71 years old in this video. He looks 95. I want to say years of hard living caught up with him, but Stevie Nicks is 74, looks 50, and snorted half the cocaine in the northern hemisphere.
Trent said he got a call from JC's people asking if he could cover it. Trent agreed and forgot about it thinking it didn't happen. When he heard this version later he said something to the effect of it felt like someone else was kissing his girlfriend. Later Trent realized Johnny Cash had taken this song, made it his own and now it was forever his. The history on how this powerful video was made is also a twist of fate and wasn't planned. I found it genuine and fascinating how it came about and the powerful images of his childhood home etc fit this song perfectly! Johnny was also dyslexic I learned (my son is also) and I became a fan of his after watching a movie he starred in. The man in black is a true fascinating character of history and legend. I could never know enough! Also FYI there is a good version of Hurt featuring David Bowie singing with Trent and NIN live.
You getting emotional means you really, really felt it. The end part was representing you seeing "your life flashing before your eyes" when you die.
I just stumbled across your channel just a few min ago. I have listened to many music reactors, and you seem to have the most genuine reaction, i feel. This was quite humbling, and i cannot wait to watch more!! Peace.
Johnny Cash had the amazing ability to cover songs and make them sound like he wrote them. You might want to listen to his covers of Chris Cornell or Tom Petty or even his wonderful cover of a Sting ballad. The man was amazing.
I am speechless to even see him as I grew up listening to him..He died soon after this of what I think was a broken heart.
Trent wrote it about addiction. Johnny interpretation was the end of life and reflecting on his life and all his regrets. That version speaks to everyone because we all know well be there someday, having to face the choices made and all the people that came and went in our lives, because death is the great equalizer. Rich or poor, mansion or trailer park, black or white, gay or straight, famous or obscure, it'll come for us all. The last line about if he could start over again He tried to keep himself. That's the big lesson,. He had changed himself to fit what the label wanted what his fans wanted, and basically sell his souk, Leading to addiction, in fidelity's, pain in heart ache. This because he surrounded by records doesn't make him happy. Now he has to face all the bridges that he burned. He's always really have is our soul and staying true to who we are, because integrity Goes a lot farther than money and fame. So stay to who you are.
Not a typical Johnny Cash song but absolutely stunning! He’s got quite the catalog of tunes u should dig into .😎✌🏻
It's such a beautiful song. I'm glad you listened to it first. The other version is good but doesn't have that grit or emotion that Johnny Cash gave it, especially with the images he showed in the video. It really was his "goodbye" to the world, making it all the more bittersweet.
He revealed his soul..💞
I get teared up every time I hear this song ....
That was exactly my reaction first time I heard it.
It still is a very powerful song to listen to.
I think this is Johnny Cash at his best. He always had a storyteller voice but it just expanded with age. I'm a lifelong Johnny fan. So glad to see you feel what he shared with us.
I'm not a "Country" music fan however Mr Cash has a special even proud place in my life. Maybe because he reminds me of my Father who left our family when I was 10 or so (never to be seen again). Mr Cash gives riches out to those that listened to him. Much more than an Empire of Dirt!
An absolute icon in the world of music - forget the 'country' label. He was way beyond genres. One of my favorit clips of Johnny is from his variety show in the early 70s -- Johnny, the legendary Carl Perkins, and Eric Clapton singing together on some of Carl's iconic rockabilly songs.
Love hearing his songs and messages message. He lost his wife June 4 months prior to his own death. To me you can hear that depression of loss . He had a rough life. My dad played (guitar) of alot if his music so I grew up listening to it. Its not that he had a great voice but alot of emotion musically and lyrically. It will make more sense if you read a short bio about him. Awesome reaction, thank you❤
A beautifully produced record by Rick Rubin that places Johnny’s extraordinary vocal in the best possible musical setting. Just plain great.
One of my favorite songs. Love Johnny Cash!
A gut-punch of a retrospective of a life with triumphs and mistakes. He was a great performer, and also a junkie. I can't watch this with dry eyes.
This is such.a good song, but more importantly, this is a masterful performance. His voice is certainly authentic and raw, as was his life at times. Do we all reach that conclusion in the end? Pain still feels like pain, but regret cuts deeper? Or do all the deeds that we regret inevitably lead to the realization and redemption we finally grasp at the end? Love wins, indeed. Wonderful reaction, as always. Peace from Ohio …
I think this song hits such emotion from everyone who hears it, whether you knew who Johnny was or not, bc its a very human song that everyone can understand. The nine inch nails original was about addiction and tho we probably all know someone who is dealing with that not everyone has it themselves. This version is about a man at the end of his life facing regret and loneliness and the totality of his life. Something we all will someday do because it doesn't matter how much fame or money you have, what profession you were or where you live on earth, death is something we all know we have to face someday. And thr lesson here was be careful to not burn too many bridges in life and keep yourself rather than giving yourself away. Treat people decently and hold on to your loved ones bc when death comes it's a journey we all face alone.
If you knew his life story you would think this piece was written about him and for him.
I grew up listening to Johnny Cash as my father loved him and so did I. I had the opportunity to see him in concert in Branson, MO in the early 90's. Was an excellent show. Comp tickets and 3rd row center to beat. My father passed 2 years ago at the ago of 87 with a Johnny Cash CD in his car stereo. Such fond memories. The movie Walk the Line is a fabulous movie about his life. I highly recommend it.
The emotion put into this makes you understand why Trent Reznor said it was Johnny's song now but to me the song has an impact by it self but the video takes it to another level I can never make it past the first chorus without starting to tear up this will always be my absolute favorite cover ever by the man in black RIP Johnny and June
yep, gets me every time. so powerful and very different from the NIN version.
Johnny Cash’s rendition of this song always brings a tear to my eye each time I listen. I love that song author Trent Reznor of 9 Inch Nails made a statement that the song is now Johnny’s, great tribute. Johnny Cash was also a reasonably accomplished actor. Talented man!
THE Man in Black...Live
He wrote song just before going live on a college campus...
Turbulence times back then...
Student asked why he always wears Black
You'll understand the character of this man...
Went to prison for Marijuana, back in 50s.
He also does a live show at a prison, great concert live....
Good reaction. Johnny always had his own style and his voice can’t be mistaken for anyone else. The grit and tone is in all of his music. Looking forward to more of your reactions to one of my all time favorite country singers.
Perfect reaction. Quite overwhelming when you really think about what different people, famous and not...have been through, experienced, and how amazing their depth of wisdom isn't it? Not enough people think deep enough unfortunately, recognize the importance of thinking these days, and miss the personal knowledge that can be extracted from music.
Johnny understood Ecclesiastes 1. We all will at some point. The last several years (after 50) I am learning that age brings a perspective about life that you can’t really appreciate til you experience it.
Another real tear jerker. This was weeks before John died.
RIP 🪦
His song “A thing called love” is also incredible
Regrets. We all have them. Some have bigger ones, some smaller. This song communicates big regrets.
Ya, I cry to this every time I hear it
Crazy good song here so emotional hope you love love you
This was a great reaction. Sincere.
Sad but such a masterpiece
Deeeeeeeeep song, arguably the best cover song
When he's daughter saw the video , she said its looks like your saying goodbye He replied I am.
Thanks! I needed a good cry today! ❤️
Writen by nine inch nails, even they said its his song now. Cash's wife June Carter died just after this song and vid was released and he died just after. You can see he's close to the end.
Johnny Cash completely reconceptualized the song. The Nine Inch Nails version is incredibly good. Johnny is doing something so totally different that, despite having virtually the same lyrics and musical content, it is really a different piece. Watching an old man singing this song is a totally different experience from hearing a man in his late 20s singing it. Hearing it in a very simple, traditional style is totally different from hearing it with the synthesized effects and distortions of industrial music. When you're dealing with a song as good as this one, both of these drastically different interpretations work perfectly. It's one of the best covers I've ever heard.
Genuine reaction....great job 🤟
The whole song and video hits you like a train. Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) wrote this as a young man raging at the world. Johnny turned it around as a lament really, as an old man looking back over his years, trying to put triumph, torment, and loss into some sort of perspective. He knew his time here was now short. The very end where he closes the piano lid tells me that he knew and his mission on Earth was complete, all the good and the bad. From the fast cuts at the end that include Jesus and the cross he knew where he was going and could now be at peace finally. I'm 75 and frequently go through those reflective periods, and I can see the end of my runway from here. And like Johnny I know where I am going too. Thank you, my God, Lord, and King Jesus. Amen!
Highwaymen with Johnny, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennins and Kris Kristopherson - live version
As usual, a cogent reaction. David Bowie, close to death, wrote "Lazarus". End of life; trying to come to terms. "Ain't no Grave" is a great song.
Thanks .
Watch the film "I Walk the Line" and the song "Hurt" will be even deeper
Hello Thanks for the reaction ;) New subscriber.
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React to one of his earliest songs - Man in Black -- when he was young and then reflect on this one at the end of his life. Still wearing black. It will add a whole level of meaning to this.
Good song of his to listen to. Folsom Prison. True story.
I never had a song relate so well.....
I am not sure if you would call it happier but it is definitely more light hearted and that is the song "a boy named sue".
Johnny was a great storyteller. If you want to listen to something lighter with humor that he did then I recommend "A Boy Named Sue", which is one of his most famous songs. Great reaction to a man whose music I have grown up with since the 60's and watched his television appearances.
That first um haha it gets ya. Glad I didn’t have to review my first listen!
A song, he really made his own, and so hard to hear!
Way to make me cry!
You should definitely listen to the NIN version. They each have a very different vibe, but are both great versions.
He had a long, successful career, but he saved the best for last...Trent Reznor wrote this about his struggles with heroin addiction, but Johnny had his own battles with booze and pills, and made it his own. Even Reznor thinks so.
In the end Johnny Cash went out like a stone cold true Legend should
that was great
The last song he ever sung before his death, he was a great country singer but he did it the hard way, try the man in black for another song if you want a happy song try a boy named Sue God bless
That song will for sure rip your heart out but if you want to hear a happier song, try "One Piece at a Time", "The One on the Left is on the Right" or "Boy Named Sue". I think his two greatest story-telling songs are "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" and "Here Comes that Rainbow Again." I would love to see you react to any of these songs.
Upbeat Cash: Boy named sue, CADILLAC VIDEO . He was the greatest story teller.
Brooks&Dunn 'Believe' official video
Now that I've brought the mood down... sorry everyone
It's a beautiful song, one that should grace everyone's ears
No one is ever ready for this video, don't sweat it.
Johnny cash - a chicken in black with video would cheer you up. Man in black - one piece at a time- ring of fire all great.
This is magnificent, regretful, wanting a do-over. When he closed the lid on piano, he never played it again. Ring of Fire was done much earlier when he met his wife. He never regretted her. When his daughter, Roseanne Cash heard this, she said to her Dad, "It sounds like goodbye." "It is." Trent Reznor of NIN said this was the most intimate song he ever wrote, and after giving permission for Johnny Cash to sing it he regretted that until he saw the video. "It's not my song now. It's Johnny's".