Johnny Cash

[Bronson]

A great singer and terrific performer. He was under appreciated in his later years. My favourite songs were Folsom Prison and Ring of Fire. A legend

[arthurbishop]

I don't know much about Cash, but I have heard a few of his songs and haven't been disappointed. The songs I like are: Hurt and Ring of Fire. I heard more of his music through a singer who does a few Cash covers by the name of Nick Cave, another good singer worth listening to if you like that sort of thing.

[Aapok]

I like his music too. Specially I like those live performs he did at Folsom Prison and San Quentin in late '60s.

[chaney]

Liked both his older classic material and the more "hip" material he did in his later years with just him and a guitar. "Delia" was dark in the "Folsom Prison Blues" mold if I remember correctly and I was blown away by him the first time I heard him do that "I've Been Everywhere" song (since overused for commercials, but still pretty cool).

He did some acting too. Remember him on an old "Columbo" episode getting exasperated by Peter Falk's investigation. Cash was a big, strapping broad shouldered guy. Both he and Waylon Jennings looked like they could handle themselves in a fight. Kris Kristofferson wasn't as big, but he was in great shape and an ex-boxer. Pretty sure they all served in the Armed Forces, with Kristofferson being a chopper pilot who volunteered for the early days of Vietnam but was reassigned to West Point.

[hammer]

Yea, he was really good, I think. The last stuff he did, the last two years of his life was really good stuff. You know, "the light bulb burns the brightest just before it goes out". Really, check out his last two CD's.