But now, do you know anyone that doesn't like Johnny Cash? I think any musician from any genre of music will tell you that, at the very least, they appreciate the guy's mettle, individualism and spirit.
That's right, Mofos...
Rubin's formula for Cash was to basically strip his sound down completely. Most songs in the American series are only Cash's voice, sounding haunted and carrying the weight of years of hard living, accompanied by an acoustic guitar and perhaps a piano or other instrument for shades of color. He also had Cash primarily cover songs by other artists with the exception of maybe one original or re-recording each album. The most memorable of these, of course, is his take on Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt", which, with the incredible accompanying video, Cash made his own forever.
It's a formula that was obviously successful, duplicated by Jack White with Loretta Lynn, and a little less successfully again (commercially, not critically) by Rubin with Neil Diamond.
"On The Evening Train" is a cover of a Hank Williams song, but it's impossible not to read Cash's life into it. Many of the songs on American V deal, literally or symbolically, with death - Springsteen's "Further Up the Road", "God's Gonna Cut You Down", "A Legend in My Time" by Don Gibson, "I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now"(a re-recoding of his own song). Of course, with Cash nearing the end of his life during his American recordings, it was only natural for him to explore that theme (though it could be argued that was always one of his major subjects).
"On The Evening Train" has a narrator who is simply watching the casket of his wife being loaded onto a train with his infant son. Even though the song tells us in the first verse "...they're taking Mama on the evening train", it's not until halfway through the song in the second verse that he mentions the "Long white casket in the baggage coach" (harsh!), which is jarring if you don't know it's coming (I didn't).
The lines where you can read again into Cash's life occur in the final verse -
I pray that God will give me courage
To carry on til we meet again
It's hard to know she's gone forever
It' hard not to believe he's singing about June Carter Cash, his longtime wife and love, who passed away before he did. It makes an already sad song even more poignant.
Interestingly, out of the four verses, the first is from a third person point-of-view, while the other three are first person, from the man whose wife has died. Intentional or not? What's the narrative purpose there? Another question - why is the dead wife's casket being loaded on a train? Where is she being buried? Why isn't there a funeral at the place where the family lives?
Anyway, here's the song (nothing happens in this homemade video. It's a train and....a train. But at least you get to hear it.)
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You're right. Cash is one of those artists who even before Rubin reinvented/repackaged/reintroduced him (I think) that everyone at least knew about regardless of where your musical proclivities lay (lie?).
I knew he was a badass but never owned anything of his until I came across a copy of American I around '95 or '96. It was just called American Recordings at the time as there was no II-IV to deal with. I knew Rubin through Slayer and the Cult, so was willing to give him a try with a man in black. Drove my wife crazy playing "Delia's Gone" over and over. No one can make kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, and premeditated murder sound more benign.
Just like you say that the first Rubin/Cash recording can be directly linked to Walk the Line and Dewey Cox, of course, that's also the reason I now own all four of the American Recordings and a random greatest hits (Best of the Man in Black, I think).
My son at one time knew the majority of the words to "Ring of Fire." Maybe it's not too late for him.
He was set to cover Color Me Badd's "I Wanna Sex You Up" on his follow up but there just wasn't enough time. He leaves us wondering what could have been.
It would have been badass.
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