Monthly Archives: November 2005

For those familiar with it, that description should be a dead giveaway.
I’m talking about Johnny Cash’s live album, At Fulsom Prison.

A friend just sent me a copy of it. I’m not very familiar with Johnny
Cash, I don’t know a whole lot about him–except he tends towards dark
stuff, and I love him for covering not only Soundgarden, but also Nick
Cave.

Of course we’ve all heard about the movie coming out about his life,
and I’m pretty ambivalent towards it–I don’t trust Hollywood to get it
right, but I don’t know enough about him to know if they did. And I’m
not sold on Joaquin Phoenix playing him, or Reese Witherspoon playing
June Carter.

But I don’t want to talk about the movie (feel free to in comments, though)–I want to talk about this
incredible album. I wish I had time to write up a decent review. I’m
hoping someone more familiar with Cash can chime in and fill in some
details (Clark?).

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Lots of talk about the Number Five band.  I think we can all agree that U2 claims that spot — now let’s move on.  Rock and Roll is partly about iconic imagery – striking a formidable and long-lasting pose.  I argue that there is one Rock and Roll Icon that stands above the rest: Eddie from Iron Maiden.

Any other Icons of Rock that can go toe-to-toe with Eddie, the undead mascot raised from Hell by Rock and Roll?  I doubt it.