#johnnycash #reaction #reactionvideo RAPPER First REACTION to JOHNNY CASH a BOY NAMED SUE!! Join this channel to get access to perks: / @blackpegasusraps
That's an EPIC thought. I like rap, rock, heavy metal, hard rock, this and that. I am versatile. there's always room for some Johnny Cash. Legend. Yeah,
There was a young man in this audience named Merle Haggard. When he got out of prison, he changed his ways, and became a Great country songwriter and singer…. And he credited Johnny Cash’s performance with his life change! Check Merle out too!
Johhny ALWAYS stood up for the underdog. He looked at prisoners as people who had mistakes but weren't necessarily bad people. You should absolutely check out his cover of The Ballad of Ira Hayes. It's about one of the Marines that raised the flag after the Battle of Iwa Jima in WWII.
I suggested "I've been working on the Railroad", sorta a mythical homage to rail-workers. Ira Hayes really hits home for me. My dad is a Vietnam vet and he's American Indian.
Another superhit written by the multitalented Shel Silverstein, who started out producing racy cartoons for Playboy magazine, spent many years writing music for superstars like Johnny Cash and Dr. Hook, and ended up writing some of the best children's books ever written. The guy was a genius. Thanks for the cool reaction, guys.
I have an uncle that's a life long musician playing multiple instruments and he contends that "A Boy Named Sue" is the first "rap" song to become popular.
Rap and rack were allready around in the 40's😂 you guys need to listen more to older music... Also the moonwalk was allready invented around the 30's 😂😅
Was down in Cornwall in 2004 with my wife and we ended up in a pub, there was this band playing their original music,lots of booze flowing all in all a good night and at the end they asked for any requests, I straight away called out a boy named sue and then the fun started. They played Johnny Cash songs for an hour after closing time,one of the best lock ins I ever had.
Now you get why Johnny is beloved by Metal Heads, Hip Hop heads...He is beloved by everyone across all spectrums of life. He has had Legend status for a long time and his story telling is why.
The Ballard of Ira Hayes by Johnny Cash - tells the true story of indigenous American Ira Hayes who was one of the US Marines who raised the US Flag on Iwo Jima in WWII.
Ira Hayes was used the the Government as a model Marine to encourage people to buy US Bonds. After the war he was sent back to the reservation forgotten by the country he served.
Johnny Cash was a gangster from a young age. If you like movies, watch Walk The Line, with Joquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, which is what made me decide to start to listen to Johnny. Very crazy life he led!
After l was grown, married, settled down with kids this is what my Dad said to me; “ l treated you better than l was treated and l know you will treat your kids better than l treated you”. He was raised in rural Missouri in the 30’s
Johnny ... country Legend... don't mess with a Legend... his music was great. Johnny Cash went through Hell and back with drugs.. came out of it thankfully because of the love of a great woman.. June Carter Cash.
Wait till you hear "When the Man Comes Around". It makes "God's Gonna Cut You Down" feel lighthearted. Great reaction, thanks. His first public performance of his song "The Man In Black" should not be missed. It sums up what Cash stood for. I hope you'll do both. Thanks!
The guitar player standing beside Johnny Cash is another legend that has many great songs and is from my neck of the woods. The great Carl Perkins. He could sing and one hell of a guitar player. Matchbox is one of my favorite songs by him
The poet Shel Silverstein (where the sidewalk ends)wrote the lyrics. But Johnny Cash tells the story like no one else. He has the ability to make the lyrics his, sincere and believable, and relatable.
Man,I remember being a little girl in the car and this song on the radio,,and my dad laughing and laughing and laughing 😂It was so memorable especially bc my dad didn't laugh very often......
Johnny Cash served in the Air Force, stationed in Germany during the Korean War. He was arrested oon seven separate occasions, mostly for being intoxicated in one manner or another, but never served more than a single night in jail.
One of my personal favs. ❤️🔥 More Johnny pls, loving your Cash journey ❤ Something important to note, Merle Haggard was a prisoner at San Quinton & saw this performance. It changed his life. The rest is country music history. 🙏❤️🔥
There's an entire album from performances at Folsom prison and San Quentin. There's video footage from both also. Merle Haggard got his inspiration to become a country singer from seeing Johnny perform while being an inmate in Folsom prison I believe. Johnny's early Sun recordings are excellent. He spent time in the studio there with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis. They all used to tour together throughout the South performing at town halls,auditoriums, wherever they could setup and play. They were used by the production companies. Didn't get paid much.
It’s amusing to me, the sounds they added after the recording in post. Cash said the prisoners were so scared to make any noise, that every song was just dead silence.
This was the first time he ever performed this song, and you can see him trying not to laugh as he reads the lyrics. They even left out a verse that went: Well, he must have thought it was quite a joke and it got a lot of laughs from a lot of folks - it seemed I had to fight my whole life through. Some girl would giggle and I'd get red - some guy would laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue. You guys talking about how your dads helped you become realistic and get tougher - that is great. That's what we're missing with the younger people - they believe they have to try to eliminate everything in the world that bothers them rather than learning to stick up for themselves and adjust.
One nugget of information about this. Merle Haggard was serving a sentence at San Quentin when Johnny did this show. He decided to turn his life around and became a country singer, as well as friends with Johnny.
Yes! Johnny Cash is a gem! I have an album suggestion (probably wouldn’t be a video reaction) in the 1990’s VH1 released an album called Story Tellers with Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. They basically are performing together and back and forth doing each others songs. And in between each of them tells the story of what inspired each song. It’s fantastic!
Yes! Storytellers has to be one of my favorite albums. And probably the best version of "Folsom Prison Blues" ever. Willie picking the lead can't be beat. Those guys are legends. Never be another Johnny or Willie when he goes.
Merle Haggard was in prison and Johnny Cash came to sing, and Merle said "I am going to do that" And he did when he got out, and the rest is history. A friend of mine named his son Cash.
Walk the Line( the movie ) was what made me dive further into JC. Great movie. They didn't use Johnny's voice but Juaquin Phoenix does an amazing interpretation. Johnny was definitely a voice for the voiceless I'd recommend Man in Black and The Wanderer by U2. Johnny's sings the whole song but, it's on a U2 album. You would definitely connect with those 2 songs. Oh, also, When the Man Comes Around. Those are deep and relevant to this current timeline
If you like Johnny, you will love the "highway men"-----just a little group of Johnny, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Merle haggard......also known as the Million Dollar Quartet......
Johnny Cash is hands down my favourite musician of all time! I listen to all the metal genres, some rap, dance, trance, classical and old country, but Johnny tops them all.
Such a great reaction!! Johnny Cash was a 'one of a kind' guy . That man had a very tough life from the get-go, and wrestled more than his share of personal demons. But, I suppose that's what made him the great Legend he is!
Johnny Cash has recorded so much great music you can listen to his recordings for 7/24 for 12 straight months and never hear the same song twice. duets, super groups or solo you just can't go wrong.
This brings back memories of my Dad. He wasn't a country fan but he loved this song! ❤ People keep telling me to cover it 😅 have you heard Johnny cash doing cocaine blues? Now that's probably my favourite 👌😎
Cash is the embodiment of the struggle of the human condition. His songs have all the strong feels and relatable topics. Love and hate, hurt and joy, fear and humor, reverence and rebellion, cruelty and compassion, poverty and wealth, good bad ugly beauty sacred and profane. But always authentic because he lived all of it in one lifetime.
I love when young artists discover Johnny Cash. I know you’ve reacted to a couple other songs, so not your first. I’ll go through your playlist to see if you’ve reacted to Hurt. Fun reaction guys! You two together always make me smile. Thank you.
Omg Hurt, Rick Rubin, yes THE Rick Rubin approached him for an album, which Johnny was leary and Rick said you can sing whatever you want, I just want to record you. But hee insisted that he do a cover of hurt. The video is amazing and a must with the song.
This is one of my faves. And "Jackson". The Man in Black is well loved in the UK. It was played too me as a child, and of course my name is involved lol, you should hear the last album he did. "Hurt", hits hard. ❤❤
Boy Named Sue written by children's poet Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends). In return, Johnny performed on Shel's "Front Row Ticket To Hear Old Johnny Sing" Shel also wrote 99% of Dr Hook's music, and the country super-group "Old Dogs"
Johnny was a genius and a national treasure. Interestingly, the guy playing the uber-slick electric guitar licks and fills behind Johnny on this track is rockabilly legend Carl Perkins! Give Johnny's humanistic anthem "The Man in Black" a listen; it will bring tears to your eyes.
Johnny Cash always has been accepted by metal heads. Folsom Prison Blue is hard core. The Man in Black didn’t give a sh!t what was proper he lived his way and F the mainstream. I loved he kicked out thousands of dollars of light at Grand Ole Opera! The most prestigious country venue.
For me it was Mom that put me on to Cash. In my mom's young years she got to met him, as her mom had him and Vivian(1st wife) over when they came to islands to visit and have a Vaca. Running Fam joke awesome rumor is they conceived while there as Roseanne was born 9mths later😊
Great reaction! Does my heart good to see young people appreciate true talent that I grew up on! You should check out the greatest guitarist that ever lived, Roy Clark, doing JC's Folsom Prison Blues! It's hilarious! A reporter once asked Eddie Van Halen what it felt like to be the best guitarist of all time and he replied "I don't know, you will have to ask Roy Clark!
Shel Silverstein wrote amazing songs. His first 'hit' was 'Hills of Shiloh' sung by Judy Collins. He wrote the "Unicorn" for Irish Rovers, "Boy Named Sue" for Johnny Cash and "Sylvia's Mother" for Dr. Hook and Medicine Show (and a bunch of others). His silliest song was "Wreck of the Old 49" which he sang as well as "Folksinger's Lament" and his scariest was "25 Minutes to Go."
JC is timeless. Great reaction. Folsom Prison Blues is another you should listen to. Something else while I'm here, Chinchilla "One Time" would be a killer for you and Don. Love your reactions man.
This was originally written by Shel Silverstein. There is a clip of Shel Silverstein doing the same song but from the father's perspective. It's worth checking out
I absolutely love your reactions. I got into Johnny Cash when I was in the Air Force in the late 90s, and I went an entire year of all my rock albums gathering dust, because JC was all I could listen to. I really appreciate that you love his "toxic" masculinity, because I felt the same way. I was never a country fan, but his brand of country had balls. And the messages in his music -- amazing. Cheers from up the street in Denver!
Shel Silverstein wrote this song. Some may know him from the children's poetry books, Where the Sidewalk Ends is one of them. He was also known for writing the cartoons in Playboy Magazine. Was actually a wild character.
For another song that will set you up for a twist and is just clever with the lyrics, check out Jim Stafford "My Girl Bill" I also argue that Jim Stafford's performance of "Mr. Bojangles" is the best version because of the conversation element he puts into it. Everyone knows the far more upbeat version, but Stafford's feels more world weary and true to the story.
great video again, Johnny cash, hank Williiams, anything from don Williiams, and bill kitchen hot rod rod lincoln.................................. ALL VERY GOOD
Johnny Cash came up from the Delta region of Arkansas. We’re talking The Mud, 30 ft deep. During the Depression. A beginning that is as real as it gets.
Thank you. The man in Black is a must. It's who Johnny was. Folsom Prison Blues is a classic. He discovered Merle Haggard on that tour as an inmate. Johnny got Merle Haggard pardoned by President Reagan. He was exonerated by DNA decades later. Johnny gave Merle his life back and a long country music career.
You need to check out the rest of Johnny Cash's work, his songs and music are epic! "Fire in the Sky", and "Ghost Rider's", are just a few, but there are many more.
My dad loved Johnny Cash and i remember singing this with him when i was young. He passed away 2 years ago and it's a sad but fond song to listen to now
When I was little my dad used to play this song on the guitar and sing it for me. He could play and sing just like Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash was born in extreme poverty so yes, he was very close to the regular people of America.
Didn't know that, thanks. I always thought the title was curious when I was a child, and I heard it played. I didn't even understand it. I just liked the singing and instrumentals.
@@SuzanneO707 Shel Silverstein also wrote songs, The Unicorn, Boa Constrictor, he wrote many songs for Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, including Sylvia’s Mother
I was born in 1962 and grew up with Johnnie. I too had another name given me by my dad, a Liverpool hardnut, twas, Mary the fookin fairy. He called me that right up to the time I finally stood up to him and threatened him with great bodily harm if he belitteled me or hit me mone more time. I was 16. Years later whilst out walking my horse through the village I lived in I asked the Universal Ear, "Like what was that all about " The reply? Johnnie Cashes, A Boy Named Sue. And yep, my dads bs made me strong as a Bull, at a gate, lol. I totally loved this reaction, I even saw Don in a higher light, hearing his story I heard some of my own. BP, you too moved me in this reaction, I could see your emotions rise as you heard the lyrics. That sparked mine too. Johnny Cash touched my heart all my life, he's another version of Ren. Story tellers extraordinaire.
Johnny is well respected across all genres of music. My parents were hard core country music listeners and I loved my rock and blues BUT because of my parents I developed a vast appreciation for all kinds of music. If it came from the heart and soul, I was in. Johnny was never in prison. Spent a night in jail for misdemeanors here and there but never prison. Who happened to be in San Quentin was a guy named Merle Haggard, for armed robbery. He was so inspired by Johnny that after leaving prison he pursued his own music career and became a legend in his own right as well. I appreciate his music as well. There's greats in all genres of music and I LOVE when people are able to open to all musical experiences. It's an education unlike any other. Love your reactions and your openness to these "new" experiences!
You should listen to “ragged old flag”. Great storytelling in typical JC fashion. If you’re the least bit patriotic have Kleenex handy. I believe he did it for half time at the superbowl, definitely at big football game.
Amazing that they pretty much winged this song live and un rehearsed Band did a good job following it as well. As he took the stage, he relied on a lyrics sheet, improvising alongside his band.
Old school country, hip hop and punk tock are all made from the same cloth just with different tailors. Its music of the working man, the downtrodden, the voice of the voiceless and Johnny did it best. Im a punk rocker and a lot of us embrace him as our spiritual and attitudal grandfather
Johnny didnt write this one. Its written by Shel Silverstein. You guys are my age. He wrote comedic poetry books like A Light In the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends with pretty amazing illustrations. I cant remember, but his wife might have been the artist. You had to have checked theses books out on library day somewhere in elementary school.
That was one of your more interesting reactions. Being female, I hadn't latched onto the whole intergenerational bullying thing between boys before. Fascinating, as girls do bullying differently. Re Johnny Cash - one of the all time greats and deservedly so. For more of his sympathy with the underdog stuff, try The Ballad of Ira Hayes, The Man in Black and Folsom Prison Blues (his breakthrough song). Huge back catalog, one can listen to his stuff for YEARS and not repeat. One of my personal faves is The Tennessee Flat Top Box - deals with the whole music fame thing. One of his saddest songs is his version of The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - deals with depression/suicide. He never did shy away from the darker side of living.
This is one of a few of Johnny's songs that jumped the tracks and landed on the pop charts. Ask anyone who grew up in the 60's if they know this song and they they will tell you, "my name is Sue, how do you do, now you're gonna die!" Johnny never went to prison, but he did spend a little bit of time in County lockup when he was busted trying to smuggle a sock full of Black Beauties (serious speed back in the day), into the US from Mexico. Y'all should watch the movie "Walk The Line," Johnny and June were involved as consultants to the producers. It's pretty close to "true to life."
My sweet hubby’s name is Christy. He was an Army brat that had to fight every time they moved to prove that he wasn’t a sissy. One time, he came home and told his dad about a fight he had. His dad asked if he won. When my sweet hubby told him no, he took him back to where the boy was and made him fight him again until he “won.”
