For your Saturday Evening entertainment, TTAG brings you the Man in Black hisownself, Mr. Johnny Cash, singing the Folsom Prison Blues. Love him or not, Cash was a force of nature, spanning genres and making his mark on music now, then, and forever more. Enjoy.
Now listen up, and listen good, Pilgrim.
Listen up, buckaroo…if yer the kinda desperado that has a hankerin’ to drill some other sidewinder fulla lead, you gotta call ’em out for a shoot-out. But this is 2010. Unless you’re a Crip or a Blood, callin’ somebody out in the middle of town for a little gunplay’s gonna get the attention of the local constabulary, if ya know what I mean. What’s a Yosimite Sam wanna-be to do?
Full disclosure: I do a pretty good Walter Brennan impression. I liked ol’ Walter from his days on The Real McCoys (whu…whu…whu…whur’s lil’ Luke, ye knotheads?) to the Guns of Will Sonnet (No brag . . . jes fact). But Walter Brennan was more than just some old guy character actor with a distinctive voice. Nope. He was a war hero. Guess which war?
I grew up on Westerns. Wuh, wuh, wuh…you yunguns think you got it tough, do yeh? Wuh, when we wuz kids, all we had wuz THREE TV stations – IN BLACK AND WHITE! Yup. ‘N when we wuz watchin’ TV on Sateedy, most o’ the time, all we could get wuz reruns o’ old Westerns. … Read more
Is there anything more American than a Western? The open expanse of untamed, lawless country. Self-reliant men [reluctantly] standing up for what’s right. A gun on every hip. And a story line so predictable it makes Little Red Riding Hood seem like a Harold Pinter play. The latest addition to the genre: Aces ‘N Eights. The Western stars Casper Van Dien as Luke Rivers, an ex-gun hand who hung up his nickel plated .45 in exchange for the quiet life of a farmer. Guess how that goes? In fact, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d seen it all before. And? You gotta problem with that?
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