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fpb ([personal profile] fpb) wrote2009-03-21 01:27 am

Everyone heard Janis Joplin's version - and loved it. But...

...how about the Man in Black at the height of his power? There is a terrible simplicity to everything he does, and I for one feel that he means every word.

[identity profile] mentalguy.livejournal.com 2009-03-21 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Terrible or awful -- in the older sense of the words, specifically -- is a good way to describe that aspect of Cash which I like best; my favorite song of his is "When the Man Comes Around." I have heard other people singing it, but in anyone else's hands it seems to fall flat and lose its apocalyptic character.

[identity profile] super-pan.livejournal.com 2009-03-21 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Aahh, thank you for that!

Was there ever a time when he wasn't at the height of his power?