Wednesday, February 15, 2012

A dream Interview

One person I would like to interview would be the singer Johnny Cash. Since the mid-1950's, Johnny Cash became one of the best known people in music. With songs like "Walk the Line", "Daddy Sang Bass", "Don't Take your Guns to Town", and "Ring of Fire".  With both his original songs and his cover tunes, he has entertained many people and has gone through many transformations in style and sound. While I enjoy the early years and one of my favorite albums is "The Highwaymen", but my favorite Johnny Cash albums come from  his final years when he was working under producer Rick Rubin (Public Enemy, Slayer, and RUN DMC). Songs (original and cover) in this time line include, "Ain't No Grave", "Redemption day", "God's Gonna Cut You Down", and, most famously, his cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt".
With this in mind, there are a number of things I would like to ask him. One thing that I would like to know about is feeling of the world music as a whole and what he thinks of different sub-genes. I also would like to know about his thoughts of the artists he has covered like Nine Inch Nails, Sound Garden, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, and Glen Danzig. This comes from my respect of the fact that he had seemed to have some kind of interest in newer artists, something I fell most artists do not really have any interest in ( let alone, artists of different genes). I think these facts are would be cool to know about, because I see him as a musician that has gone beyond his known styles and can be seen as the number one country artist that even non-country fans like to listen to.
Another thing that interests me about Cash is his faith. I am someone who is not a believer in any kind of religion, but I do enjoy his songs about God and other subject matter of the like. I guess the reason for that is because that his songs about this subject seem to have a more real feeling of being connected to something, but still questioning everything around him. I would like to know more about how he gets to these directions in his songs.
This could go with the next topic that I like to discuss with him. He and I both have an interest in dark subject matter and while we have different ways of going into these ideas, it is still there.  I would like to know more about his interest in the dark side of the world.
I have no idea of how the interview would go, but I is nice to think about.




           Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_cash
http://www.johnnycash.com/
http://www.youtube.com/artist/Johnny_Cash

1 comment:

  1. I think JC might ask you what attracts you to his songs of faith. He was a very special and very complex man. RIP

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