Country Artist? - First Reaction To JOHNNY CASH & Did i Like it? - Hurt

It's a cover of a nine inch nails song.

This song wasn’t a country song originally it was a song by nine inch nails. When Trent Reznor the frontman of NIN heard it he said it’s not my song anymore

This cover was included in his final album released in 2002. He died in 2003. He started his career in 1953. As a not big on country person myself, I love Johnny Cash.

This was the last song he sang before he died.

In a way it was his goodbye. He had serious health problems, his wife passed 4 months after recording and he passed about 7 months after recording. It was his last music video he recorded but he did record a bunch of songs before his death but I fully believe he knew this would be his last video. The way he closes and strokes the fallboard at the end.... for me that was rougher than anything. A fond goodbye.

Lee, thanks for doing this one. Johnny is a legend, country or not. Check out Man In Black or Boy Named Sue as they more story than twangy country. Trent wrote this about his feeling of isolation and despair, the addictions taking their toll. He didn't like the cover until he saw the video. Johnny kept to the isolation and despair but related it to life's losses. Johnny knew addiction well. The woman in the video is his wife, June.

When his daughter heard it, she also said it sounded like a goodbye and Johnny answered it was. The NIN version was about a young man suffering a heroine addiction buy Johnny's version took it to a different place, a reflection of the end of life. Also, at the end when he closes the piano it was apparently the last time he played it.

I can highly recommend the movie "walk the line". It is about his life and it is a brilliant movie. Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny and he is amazing 😊

It’s a very touching, yet cold, goodbye of a song.

Thx. It was goodbye. The photo of woman on the wall was his mother. The woman on the steps was his wife who was very ill. Johnny had drug and alcohol and faithfulness issues in his life.

This always gets me in the feels 😢 His goodbye
Trent Reznor (NIN) wrote it

This song is a cover song originally done by Nine Inch Nails. You should react to the original version of “Hurt”

the interesting thing was that June left 3 months after these recordings and Jonny left a year after these recordings and only then was released...
RIP Jonny and June, legends
nice Reaction
the trophies were definitely his winners trophies from the Country Nashville competitions....but I'm not so sure about that
At the end where he strokes the piano, was the moment when he had used the piano for the last time😥

Johnny was a legend!

The woman on the stairs, looking down at him, is his wife June. She died nine months before he did in 2003. It was his goodbye song, the cover of a Trent Reznor song.

This sounds like the first country song you've reacted to that's not on the "naylist"! Unless I missed one or two, that is.

This was the only song of the covers Mr cash did that I like.

Yes, Johnny was an addict at one time. He even got busted smuggling drugs inside his guitar. But for the last 35 years or so of their lives, he and June lived pretty clean. (As is noted at the end of the biopic-movie "Walk The Line," explaining why it stopped the story before the "boring" part.)

And yes, he did take occasional acting roles. In an episode of Columbo, his character is a Gospel singer, the trophy husband of a female evangelist who mostly married him so that his performances in her crusades would draw bigger crowds. He creatively murders his wife and his stepdaughter (whom he's been fooling around with). But Columbo catches him. Columbo catches everybody.

You've actually heard another Johnny Cash song ' God's Gonna Cut You Down " only Erik Grönwall was singing it

Man In Black 🔥🇺🇸✌

Johnny Cash was not a cowboy. He was the Man in Black. I can't think of twang in his songs.

RIP JOHNNY 💔 🙏

Johnny struggled with drug addiction. I would say alot of what he regrets is probably related to that. He lost his brother at a young age to a tragic accident, got married had kids, then divorced. Then married June Carter who was on the stairs in the video. June and the Carter family were country music royalty when he fell for her. Fun fact June wrote “ring of fire” about falling in love with Johnny.
Johnny had a huge catalogue and is in the country music hall of fame, rock hall of fame, gospel hall of fame.
He had some fun songs but also some serious ones. One song he did “Man in Black” talked a lot about his belief system and was released around the time of Vietnam so had statements about that. He identified with people who were having a rough go at life.
He went and sang in prisons as well. Usually songs that were about crime and the prisoners loved it haha.

Some “non-cowboy” (which tbh I think you probably mean modern bro county? Not sure) of Johnnys-
“Gods gonna cut you down”
“The man in black”
“Til the man comes around”
“Sunday Mornin comin down”

More upbeat/fun and a bit wild would be-
“Fulsom prison blues”
“Cocaine blues”
“A boy named sue”

And can’t forget he was in a super group with some other legends-Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson (who himself has tons worth checking out not as cowboyish and great meaning)
They were The Highwaymen and did have a song “Highwayman” worth checking out. This is honestly the beginning of a rabbit hole to actual meaningful country music.

Have you done any Meat Loaf or Bee Gees?

I saw Nine Inch Nails do this in 1994 (it was their song, given to Johnny a year before he passed)

That train footage is from the 1960s. Since NO MUSIC VIDEOS EXISTED before 1981, all we have is concert footage, movie and tv show appearances, and the occasional advertisement for concert tickets (the Beatles did this in the 60s with just a few songs in 10 years.)

Keep in mind, IN 1955, as ROCK N ROLL was just getting it's legs due to some guitarists. there were 5 artists at SUN RECORDS that toured the south, trying to get more radio stations into the groove. Those 5 were ROY ORBISON, CARL PERKINS, JERRY LEE LEWIS, ELVIS PRESLEY, and JOHNNY CASH. He was a rocker first.

Johnny Cash had many vices. Great singer, though.

Cowboy country music!! lol - i get a tear everytime i hear this song

This was a Nine Inch Nails song. After hearing Johnny Cash version, they said this is his song now. Listen MAN IN BLACK.

a really moving cover of the Nine Inch Nails song.

Country is heart and soul. In this case, a Nine Inch Nails song became Johnny's - even according to Trent Resnor.

Johnny's live video recording of "Folsom Prison Blues," filmed at San Quentin Prison, is a must-watch. A few of his other essential songs: "I Walk the Line," "The Man in Black" (which describes how he started wearing his trademark black clothing), "Five Feet High and Rising" (which describes the flood of 1937 that Cash survived), and "Jackson" (a duet with his wife, June Carter Cash of the famous Carter Family of musicians).

Thank you for a great reaction. I think you would love his song “man in black”

Watch "Walk The Line"