Best of - Johnny Cash: True To His Own Voice

What It Takes®

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

He had a voice that could make a mountain quake. And his impact on the world of music is legendary. As fans prepare to celebrate the arrival of a new Johnny Cash album -- recorded live in 1968 but never released -- we take a second listen to the very first episode of What It Takes. You'll hear the deeply introspective Cash near the end of his career (1993). He reflects on how he overcame considerable personal obstacles and turned his failures into the stepping stones to success. He also talks about the first music he remembers, the voice teacher who advised him to stop taking lessons, and the source of his creativity. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2015-2021

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Alice. Johnny Cash has a new album coming out.
0:08.5	He died of course in 2003, but this is a rare gift from the beyond and also from the past.
0:17.0	It's a recording of a concert Johnny Cash gave in San Francisco in 1968 at the Carousel Theater.
0:25.0	I'm thinking then to wonder, walking down the road.
0:30.0	I once loved a woman.
0:32.0	A child I'm told I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul
0:38.6	but don't think twice it's all right. For his leave his fifth posthumous album and it's a powerful reminder of the power of Johnny Cash.
0:58.0	Here he is a country icon, a poor cotton farmer from rural Arkansas playing at the height of and in the heart of the
1:07.6	counterculture, the hate Ashberry. The crowds at the Carousel Theater were much more likely fans of the Grateful Dead in Jefferson Airplane than of country music.
1:20.0	Not long ago, John Carter Cash, Johnny's son, heard this recording for the first time.
1:26.0	It had been sitting for 50-plus years in the archives of Sound Engineer Owsley Stanley, better known as Bear.
1:35.0	The sound quality is much more present than what you'll hear in most live recordings made at the time.
1:41.0	John Carter Cash called it a masterpiece and he writes in the liner
1:46.6	notes,
1:47.6	Dad gave what I believe to be one of the most intimate and connected shows I have ever heard. The set that night included
1:57.0	two Bob Dylan songs and songs championing the downtrodden of society.
2:03.0	Gather round me people, there's a story I would tell.
2:07.0	About a brave young Indian that we should remember well.
2:12.0	From the tribe of the FEMA Indians,
2:15.0	a proud and peaceful band
2:17.0	who formed the Phoenix Valley
2:20.0	in Arizona land
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