God be good to him, he had a great talent for stealing other men's girls! lol
Marty Robbins' "Big Iron", Sting's "I Hung My Head" and Trent Reznor's "Hurt"...
All great songs in their original form. All made even greater by Cash.
There is a lovely quote from Reznor describing the first time he heard Cash's version of "Hurt"...
"I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure."
How about his version of Bobbie McGee? (A few entries earlier in my LJ.) And his version of Springsteen's Highway Patrolman? Let me tell you, you have to have some power to add power to a Springsteen song.
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Date: 2012-01-05 09:49 pm (UTC)Marty Robbins' "Big Iron", Sting's "I Hung My Head" and Trent Reznor's "Hurt"...
All great songs in their original form. All made even greater by Cash.
There is a lovely quote from Reznor describing the first time he heard Cash's version of "Hurt"...
"I pop the video in, and wow... Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps... Wow. [I felt like] I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore... It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning — different, but every bit as pure."
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Date: 2012-01-05 10:07 pm (UTC)