Tag Archives: Johnny Cash

“I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.” — Waylon Jennings

Posted on June 15, 2025 by sheila

It’s his birthday today. Like a lot of artists whose music I own (I still like to own music: will never give it up), Waylon Jennings is on almost constant rotation. He’s always there. In playlists, first of all, but … Continue reading →

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“Sometimes I can sing it when I can’t say it.” — Carl Perkins

Posted on April 9, 2025 by sheila

“The music was new, the kids were just eatin’ it up. They were claiming it as their own music. But I really think when the kids were comin’ to the sock hops and to the rock and roll shows, I … Continue reading →

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“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.” — Johnny Cash

Posted on February 26, 2025 by sheila

It’s his birthday today. Johnny Cash, singing “Man in Black” in Denmark: Here he is on Tex Ritter’s Ranch Party, 1956 or so. Great guitar solo, too. He’s not just strumming that guitar. The guitar CHUGS along, with an irresistible … Continue reading →

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Music shuffle: The Return

Posted on January 24, 2025 by sheila

To quote the final line of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: I been away a long time. My last “shuffle” post was in 2022 and I worried about what I would do when “my laptop goes”. Well, it happened … Continue reading →

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“I was looking for what was coming from a man’s soul and a man’s conviction.” — Sam Phillips

Posted on January 5, 2025 by sheila

The myth. The legend. There’s a lot of bull shit with the legend, and saying that does not mean throwing out the whole thing. But Sam did have a way of placing him at the center of every story in … Continue reading →

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“I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin’ like myself.” — Hank Williams

Posted on September 17, 2024 by sheila

It’s his birthday today. He came to Nashville and he just set this whole world on fire. He was the first one to go to Las Vegas as a country singer, he was the first one in a major hotel … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Duo #33

Posted on September 12, 2022 by sheila

Sam Phillips and Johnny Cash

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After a long break: Let’s iTunes Shuffle

Posted on September 5, 2022 by sheila

I work from home. It’s a busy job, lots of meetings and Zoom calls, and then there’s my writing work, as well as family stuff and having a personal life, and in the last 3 months I have been – … Continue reading →

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Stressful Autumn Shuffle

Posted on November 16, 2020 by sheila

The past two months have been so stressful I’m not sure I even processed the stress. I’ve been up in Rhode Island, mostly, and then Allison and I went and stayed in a cottage in the woods of Connecticut for … Continue reading →

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Dog Days of Covid Summer Shuffle

Posted on September 1, 2020 by sheila

Strange times all around. I’m quarantining in Rhode Island with Hope. I’ve been here for a couple of weeks now. Everything in limbo. Here’s the music that’s accompanied me over these weeks. Shuffled up. Appropriate to the chaos of the … Continue reading →

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