they say they go in 3's two great people ritter and cash who will be next  its sad
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“I subscribe to the Pete Seeger theory that all music is political.” - Steve Earle

Johnny Cash understood the power of symbolism very well. I find it interesting that whenever I think of Johnny Cash, the first thing that comes to mind is his wearing black for the downtrodden.

a true American legend and one mean tough straight-shooting mofo ... he was "bad" before bad was even invented (and then picked up by today's crop of cream-puff wannabe juniors)

it's so bizarrely fitting that his last music video should be a cover of Nine Inch Nails!

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.

Touche,  and thanks to The Man in Black

Charles Bronson died about a week or so ago, if I'm not mistaken.

Well at least Johnny and June are together again.

And I remember him playing a great role in "Columbo" and was surprised to find out that he was a singer/musician and not only an actor.

Cash was so much more of a man to me than other "stong, silent" types, because he really stood for the troubled.  

It's funny, when I was growing up in Illinois, I used to wake up every day to a radio station that played "I Walk The Line" exactly when my radio was set for when I went to elementary school.  JC's voice was, for a long while, more present in my life than my own father's.  

That video he did for "Hurt" is all the more poignant now.