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    Mckechnie/Cash - Friday 12th September 2003 by Joe Mckechnie

Mckechnie/Cash - Friday 12th September 2003

This all vinyl Johnny Cash mix was recorded the day The Man In Black died.
At the time I gave the mix out on CD, here it is again.

Joe
12/09/2026

By the early 1970s, he had crystallized his public image as "The Man in Black". He regularly performed dressed all in black, wearing a long black knee-length coat. This outfit stood in contrast to the costumes worn by most of the major country acts in his day: rhinestone suit and cowboy boots.
In 1971, Cash wrote the song "Man in Black", to help explain his dress code:

We're doing mighty fine I do suppose
In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back
Up front there ought to be a man in black.

Original Photo: Jim Marshall

He wore black on behalf of the poor and hungry, on behalf of "the prisoner who has long paid for his crime".

theguardian.com/music/2021/may...-more-than-ever
johnnycash.com



    Tracklist
    01:00    Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues
    03:00    Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line
    05:30    Johnny Cash - Jackson
    08:30    Johnny Cash And The Tennessee Two - Hey, Porter
    16:30    Johnny Cash - Five Feet High and Rising
    17:30    Johnny Cash - Sing It Pretty, Sue
    22:30    Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness
    27:00    Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special (Album Version)
    31:00    Johnny Cash - Singin' in Vietnam Talkin' Blues
    35:00    Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat
    39:30    Johnny Cash - Hank and Joe and Me
    41:30    Johnny Cash - It Ain't Me, Babe
    46:00    Johnny Cash - In the Jailhouse Now
    48:30    Johnny Cash - Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down (Live)
    56:00    Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire
    58:30    Johnny Cash - Man in Black


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