Johnny Cash – Mean Eyed Cat

PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948’s oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com Country music patriarch Johnny Cash, the “Man in Black,” has walked the line between rock and country since his early days as a rockabilly singer. Johnny Cash’s songs’ characteristic marching bass lines have influenced Waylon Jennings and others, while his deep, quavery baritone growl has become a trademark. A preeminent songwriter, Cash has been courted over the years by rock’s elite, beginning with Dylan in the ’60s. In 1994 Cash returned to the spotlight, boosted by the support of a whole new generation of fans — many of them alternative-rock aficionados — with the release of the stark (just vocals and acoustic guitar) American Recordings. Ill health slowed Cash down in the late ’90s but did not stop his creative output. The son of Southern Baptist sharecroppers, Cash began playing the guitar and writing songs at age 12. During high school, he performed frequently on radio station KLCN in Blytheville, Arkansas. Cash moved to Detroit in his late teens and worked there until he joined the air force as a radio operator in Germany. He left the air force and married Vivian Liberto in 1954; the couple settled in Memphis, where Cash worked as an appliance salesman and attended radio announcers’ school. With the Tennessee Two — guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant — he …
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