JOHNNY CASH: A Little Farther...Down The Line
Onstage, Johnny Cash likes to joke about his daughter Rosanne’s recording of “Tennessee Flat Top Box”: “She played it for me and I said, ‘That’s real pretty, honey. And I want to thank you for recording it.’ And she said ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I wrote it.’”
JOHNNY CASH A Little Farther...Down The Line
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J. Kordosh
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Onstage, Johnny Cash likes to joke about his daughter Rosanne’s recording of “Tennessee Flat Top Box”: “She played it for me and I said, ‘That’s real pretty, honey. And I want to thank you for recording it.’ And she said ‘Why?’ And I said, ‘Because I wrote it.’”
It gets a big laugh, but Cash isn’t joking.
“No, She didn’t know I wrote it,” he says. “She sure didn’t, but that’s alright. I’ve made her listen to a lot of my old songs since then.”
There’s plenty to listen to: since starting out on Sam Phillips’s legendary Sun label with “Cry! Cry! Cry!” 33 years ago Cash has recorded something like 1,500