Johnny Cash Number 1 on Billboard!!

Alvin Blaine · From: Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA

So three years after Johnny Cash dies he has his first number one selling album since his 1969 "Live at San Quentin" album.

"V: A Hundred Highways" debut at number one on Billboard top 200 Pop Chart this week and it's Number one on the top Country Chart.
Actually two of the top ten country albums this week are Johnny Cash albums and five of the ten Top Country Catalog Albums are his. More Johnny Cash albums have been sold this month then for the last 30 years he was alive.
How much you want to bet you wont hear a single Johnny Cash song on top 40 country radio even though, as it appears from CD sells, that's what every one wants to hear.

[This message was edited by Alvin Blaine on 18 July 2006 at 01:36 AM.]

Jim Phelps · From: Mexico City, Mexico

I stumbled across some talk about this album a few weeks ago online, and there were all kinds of posts by young people with punked hair, goth look and everything, and they were all raving about how great Johnny Cash was, I thought that was great. He really reached the young crowd in the last few years, even if Nashville seems to have turned its corporate back on him. I read posts by many "gen-x" kids when his video "Hurt" came out, and they were really moved by it, as was I.

Yeah, I can believe "country radio" not playing any of it, and I can already imagine Johnny's finger in the air once again.

I miss Johnny & June, Waylon, too many more.

[This message was edited by Jim Phelps on 18 July 2006 at 02:12 AM.]

Dave Mudgett · From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee

Yeah, the "Walk the Line" movie has 'em churned up right now. But this fascination with Johnny isn't exactly new. My college-town rockabilly band always had to play at least a half a dozen Cash tunes a night to keep 'em happy. We were old-school rockabilly, but lots of punkers latched on beginning in the early-to-mid 90s.

Personally, I think it's great, both for wider popular music, and maybe to remind some of the folks in Nashville about where it's really at. Maybe they're listening ... or maybe not.

Kevin Hatton · From: Buffalo, N.Y.

Screw CMT & the CMA. They aren't country. That goes for alot of the Nashville corporate also. Hello Satellite Radio.

Kenny Burford · From: Independence, Missouri USA

Right now Nashville is producing dweeb and twit country. That's the route the major's in Nashville have always followed and it's never going to change and that's why some punk rock/country garage band will probably wind up being the next big thing.

Charles Davidson · From: Phenix City Alabama, USA

Last year I toured with a 24 year old singer in six states,we used drums,steel,lead guitar,and upright bass,we played Hank Sr,Webb,Earnest,Faron,Jimmy Rodgers,Cash,We played it with a HEAVY rock -a billy beat.We played mostly punk rock clubs,Being an old 66 year old geezer it freaked me out to have a young punker with green and purple spiked hair come up and request Webb,or Hank,and Cash,never for Toby Keith,Kenny Chesney,Big and Rich,etc,Remember one night at the Jinx in Savanna ,asked if they wanted more Cash,several ran to the bandstand pulled their pants leg up,all had pictures of Johnny tattoed on their legs.Some times after a show they would e-mail saying they went bought cd's of Hank,Cash,Faron,or Webb.To these kids this old music is NEW to them and most love it,because they can sense it's the real deal,not this ^%$# they hear over and over again on FM radio or GAC[GREAT AMERICAN CRAP],They just need some one to give it to them.

David L. Donald · From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand

We get regular request for Johhny over here in Thailand too.

More than Dolly Parton requests fortunately.
At least we can sing sorta like Johhny.

Jack Stoner · From: Kansas City, MO

I've toured quite a bit the last four years, here in Florida, with Johnny's brother, Tommy. Although Tommy has had a few hits of his own obviously the big attraction is that he's Johnny's brother. One of Tommy's shows is a Tribute show to his brother.

Last November we did a festival in a Tampa suburb. As it turned out the Walk the Line movie opened on Friday and we did the festival on Saturday night. The local media was hyping the movie but with Tommy in town for a show he got a lot of publicity out of that. As it turned out the festival got a huge attendance increase just to see Tommy. We didn't go on until 8 PM but the promoter said people were lining up at 4 PM to get the approx 200 available seats in a large Tent. However, by show time there were a lot of people standing outside the tent (the sides were open). The promoter said he counted 12 deep around the outside of the tent. Johnny Cash strikes again.....

Jason Odd · From: Stawell, Victoria, Australia

I might point out that the actual Gen-X kids are now thirty-someythings... they're just the latest kids if they're under 25.

Most of the guys I know who are into Johnny Cash are about an average of 27, the American Recordings got a whole bunch of Gen-Xer's excited, but hey that was a decade ago, so now we got braggin' rights too ya know. Eg: "dude, I was listening to Johnny Cash when you were eight... hell, I'm old enough to remember the Highwaymen, I'd been shaving for a few years by then."

Kind of hoping that teens and 20's will be getting this excited about Johnny Cash in another 10, now that would be cool.

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