the worst thing i've heard in a long time (johnny cash)

Jason Longoria · From: Texas, USA

I just threw up in my mouth...

http://www.johnnycashremixed.com/

Tay Joslin · From: Clarksvillle, Tennessee USA

It's one thing to admire a great
artist, but this ain't right!

WHO AUTHORIZED THIS PROJECT?
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Bill Hatcher · From: Atlanta Ga. USA

This is what kids listen to. Johnny Cash is so big these days. I was doing a project for an artist and I recorded some tracks that were way out of line with what the artist had been use to. I just said that it was in line with a "Cash" sound.....then they loved it.

The "remix" thing is a part of the biz these days. If you play the original Cash song for the kids....not much reaction, but when you put all the hip hop mess on it and some black guy gangstering it up...IMMEDIATE connection.

It's youth, hip, kids.....you and I are out of touch with all this. Face it. It is not a degradation of Cash. Cash is the only REAL thing in the mix. The rest is trash..but not Cash. (Sounds like Johnny Cochran).
It is really a testament to the power of his music that this was done.

I am not really in the know about what all the young folks love about Cash...maybe the rebellion and the realness of him, but for some reason he is really popular with them right now which I find facinating.

Maybe they will do the same with Webb Pierce!!! Cool

Keith Cordell · From: San Diego

Agreed, it may not be your taste (or mine) but it is a way of honoring him, not trying to disrespect him. And it will make the Cash estate a bunch o' money.

Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

Thats racist. Someone needs to get sued for that.

Keith Cordell · From: San Diego

Nt sure I get where it's racist, Kevin. What did I miss?

Stephen Gambrell · From: Over there

No racism at all, Kevin. It ain't the way I want to hear Johnny Cash, but it ain't racist.

Charlie McDonald · From: out of the blue

I guess "in a long time" goes back to Cash and Bob Dylan doing "North Country Fair."
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Tay Joslin · From: Clarksvillle, Tennessee USA

Bill Hatcher said:

Bill Hatcher · From: Atlanta Ga. USA

I worked some gigs with J. Cash playing guitar for him. Part of his show was with a symphony orchestra and part with just his band. He was equally at home in both settings. Would his hardcore fans hated to hear a symphony orchestra backing him???? The folks at the concerts loved it. They might not have even come if the symphony had not been backing him.

This is just another setting for his art to be presented in. The folks that will listen to this might not even be as interested if it were just the Sun records sound. The remix thing is attractive to them just as much or maybe even more than the artists music they are remixing.

Personally I do not care too much for all this remix stuff, but I do understand the biz part of it and the generation to which it is directed. I am just not a part of that generation.

Ellis Miller · From: Cortez, Colorado, USA

Fortunately for the art world (including music) we have the forces of time as our ultimate critic. What will they be listening to in fifty or a hundred years? My guess is not the remix.

Somebody might want to be keeping a real close eye on the Mona Lisa.
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David Doggett · Posted 11 Nov 2008 8:31 am

If you don't like these modern kinds of music to begin with, you are going to hate it done over a country giant like Johnny Cash. I imagine many songwriters from other genres (show tunes, jazz, blues, R&B, rock), who didn't like country music, had their stomachs turned when their songs were done country style.

But these remixes seem to have been done with complete respect - that's why they chose Cash and these songs. These are musicians from other cultures, redoing his songs in their own style, while actually using his voice track. Some tracks are better than others. "Walk the Line" is probably the worst. "I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow" is one of the best. In some places, his original voice sounds too out of place, and they would have been better off doing the vocal in their own voice. In other places, nothing but Johnny's unique voice would work, and you can see why they used it.

Some people just object to the whole concept of remixing. Some people didn't like Natalie Cole remixing with her father's old songs, even though it was done very well and in the original style. The concept and results do seem strange, and maybe tasteless, at first. But when you think about it, if we have the technological capability to do this, and you can't get the original artist in the room, then why not? Purists will say, "Is nothing sacred?" And experimentalists will say, "Well, no, nothing is sacred. If you can do it, and it's interesting, then go for it." Nobody has to buy or listen to this stuff if they don't want to. Obviously some people do want to. It's a big world.

Keith Cordell · From: San Diego

[quote="Ellis Miller"]Fortunately for the art world (including music) we have the forces of time as our ultimate critic. What will they be listening to in fifty or a hundred years? My guess is not the remix.

That is, as I recall, what they said about rock and roll about the time Johnny was getting hot on the scene...

Blake Wilson · From: Boulder CO, USA

Wow, pretty horrible after just a few seconds of sample listening!

Funny thing is, this sort of remix was parodied last year in the movie "Walk Hard", the faux-biopic of a very Johnny Cash-esque character named Dewey Cox. Cox is at a low point in his career, and it's revitalized by the rapper "Lil Nuttzak" who samples Cox's big hit from the '50s. ("Cox and Nuttzak?! What a package!" says Dewey's manager). The video, made for the movie as a parody of rap videos, is meant to show that this sort of remix is pretty ludicrous...but that didn't stop Snoop et al from doing it for real. Here's the video (Warning: not safe for work or much else!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXOhVwHAjI

Life imitates art? Art imitates comedy? Rap imitates satire? Someone can't tell the difference? If you can handle this type of comedy (firmly in the Judd Apatow vein, e.g., "Forty Year old Virgin" and "Knocked Up"), "Walk Hard" is a very funny movie, and I actually love the songs and own the soundtrack.

Regards,

Blake

Bill Hatcher · From: Atlanta Ga. USA

Mike Neer · From: NJ

I don't mean to be a fly in the ointment here, but I liked some of it, particularly Folsom Prison Blues. I'm always fascinated with some of the stuff remix artists come up with. It doesn't always work, obviously, but I've heard a lot of really excellent stuff, too.
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Chris LeDrew · From: Canada

Theresa Galbraith · From: Goodlettsville,Tn. USA

I never was a fan of Johnny. He didn't use steel.

Anyway, atleast he maybe heard more on the remix session?
Johnny doesn't get airplay here in Nashville much.

Steinar Gregertsen · From: Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.

Andy Volk · From: Boston, MA

Working in video for 20+ years, I can appreciate the power of the editing room to transform raw materials. Johnny Cash's original recordings are indelible and no, I don't think anyone will be clamoring to hear the re-mix 100 years from now. While it's not the kind of music I would ever seek out I can appreciate the skill of the remix artist in creating something that uses Cash's original cuts as simply inspiration and raw material to make something else entirely new and different. Does it always work? Hell no. Walk the Line, the remix rather sucks but Get Rhythm actually isn't bad. If sculptors can create sculpture with "found objects" can't remixers? Especially if they pay a usage fee to the Cash estate? I try to approach it all with open ears.

Tay Joslin · From: Clarksvillle, Tennessee USA

Barry Blackwood · Posted 11 Nov 2008 2:40 pm

John Steele · From: Renfrew, Ontario, Canada

I try to be objective about modern musical styles, but I'm afraid the extreme narcissism and orgy of egomania that prevails in hip hop is just too much for me.

And, once again, Snoop Dog proves my point, within 10 seconds of the start of the "walk the line" remix, we have the inevitable "snoop dog is here" announcement.
Yes, never fear, listeners.... for I, The Great One, am here to save this cut from the scrapheap; The great, the incomparable, the brilliant, the unequaled, the much-heralded, the wonderful ME.

What a knob.

-John

Theresa Galbraith · From: Goodlettsville,Tn. USA

Thanks Tay,

Still not a fan, I might have been one if he used steel guitar....

Alvin Blaine · From: Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA

I don't know where some of you get your info, because Johnny Cash did use steel and Dobro, when needed.
One of my all time favorite albums, from 1960, is a Johnny Cash album with Shot Jackson playing steel & Dobro.
This album also had the top ten hit called "When Papa Played The Dobro". So not only did he use a steel guitar, he even wrote songs about steel players..WOW.

Johnny Cash's music was always about the story. It didn't matter what instrumentation was used as long as the story gets conveyed to the listener. It could be him reciting words to an orchestra or just singin' with an acoustic guitar.
If these new remixes get the story of the song across, then I would bet that Johnny is happy about it.

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