How Johnny Cash Changed Music
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Published 2023-02-10
This is a documentary about the life of the legendary musician Johnny Cash. Produced and written by Matt Beat. Check out @johnnycashofficial's music: open.spotify.com/artist/6kACVPfCOnqzgfEF5ryl0x
Annotated script:
docs.google.com/document/d/1Nxf5tqku0PvmiuyhyxbRd6…
Sources/further reading:
Cash: The Autobiography by Johnny Cash
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Composed: A Memoir by Rosanne Cash
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I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny by Vivan Cash and Ann Sharpsteen
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Johnny Cash: The Biography by Michael Streissguth
Purchase here: amzn.to/3WPe9kb
Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black by Alan Light
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www.johnnycash.com/about/biography/
www.allmusic.com/artist/johnny-cash-mn0000816890/b…
encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/johnny-cash-9/
achievement.org/achiever/johnny-cash/
tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/johnny-cash/
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/me-and-my-cousin-johnny…
www.biography.com/news/johnny-cash-10-interesting-…
www.johnnycash.com/releases/list/
www.johnnycash.com/movies-tv/list/
Johnny Cash is considered not just one of the greatest country singer-songwriters of all time, but one of the best singer-songwriters of all time…period. He’s also one of the best-selling musicians of all time, selling more than 90 million records worldwide. He performed at least 1500 songs in his career…hundreds of those songs he wrote himself. According to my calculations, he released at least 97 albums. Now you can see why I didn’t list them all.
Much of his music was about hardship, about the trials and tribulations that everyday folks go through. Despite the dark and sad themes of many of his songs, people often forget that he also knew how to be silly. Some of his biggest songs are quite lighthearted and make you smile. Thanks to his backing bands over the decades, Johnny developed an incredibly unique sound that combined multiple genres, including but not limited to country, gospel, folk, blues, rockabilly, and even rock and roll. Despite being a crossover artist, he particularly helped bring country music into the mainstream. He was, after all, a big reason why I first got into country.
There’s a reason why we often first recall those free prison concerts when we think of Johnny Cash today. That’s because his biggest appeal came from the fact that he never stopped being a champion for the downtrodden, for the forgotten in society. He was one of us.
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0:00 Early Life
4:51 Sun Records Era
9:18 Columbia Records Era
32:58 Mercury Records Era
33:55 American Recordings Era
37:19 Legacy
All Comments (21)
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My Patreon supporters got early access to this video. For real. www.patreon.com/thebeatgoeson Also, I want to apologize for this video. Johnny Cash released sooo many albums. I shouldn't have mentioned so many of them. That probably exhausted many of you. Anyway, thanks for watching.
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Id like to see a creedence clearwater revival brief story
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I wonder how long it would take to listen to all of Johnny's studio albums back to back. 😂
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I will forever be grateful to my grandfather for showing me Johnny Cash at a young age
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This video was a breath of fresh air for me after an exhausting exams period. Johnny Cash was a really wonder ful man, and you don't see a lot of people quite like him in the industry. I hope you do a video about Beethoven at some point, for even more diversity.
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My great grandfather grew up with Johnny Cash and told stories and remembered all the things in the early years you said He told all these stories the Christmas before he died R.I.P. peepaw 1929-2020
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The amount of research you do in all of these videos are genuinely astonishing, underrated channel
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The Man in Black. Johnny Cash the legend.
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Johnny Cash is a fantastic artist… his performance of songs like “Give my love to rose” are stirring. I’m glad I found your second channel, Mr. Beat!
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Well done indeed, Mr. Beat. As a huge CASH fan and a fairly knowledgeable one at that, I can say that I learned a thing or two from your presentation and it was thoroughly enjoyable. I'm very impressed that you mentioned Bruce Springsteen as a contributor to the Johnny 99 album (writer of Johnny 99 and Highway Patrolman). A little known fact, I suspect. Mr. beat, maker of quality programming.
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Great job! I’d love videos on the history of Eric Clapton, someone who’s had a really long career, or Jimi hendrix, someone who did so much in only 4 years of a career.
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I love how nearly one-third of the whole video is just simply listing all the albums he's released. Could've been a "A Brief History" video if you only discussed the successful ones lol
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You should do the same with Carl Perkins! I love this video format, can't wait to watch more.
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I've been watching your other channel for a few years now. Didn't know about this one. Johnny Cash is my very country artist and Elvis was my grandfather's favorite artist. Thank you for the great video
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Really love Johnny Cash, one of my favorite artists of all time! Thanks for this video Mr. Beat!
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Feels kinda weird that he started a wildfire after he released Ring of Fire.
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Yeah, he was definitely one of us.
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Being able to get inspiration from many different genres and styles, even if they're not your thing, and putting them into your work flawlessly takes a lot of open-mindedness and talent. I have to respect his artistic hustle. Great upload.
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Man everybody should give Cash a listen at some point in their lives.
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What a monumental video for this channel on such a monumental guy
