Johnny Cash – Chicken In Black
Here’s an excerpt from Grant’s blog post “OK Bring it: Cash v. Haggard” where this video is referenced. It’s a great debate, check it out!
I think of Cash as a very complicated kind of holy man, in part because of what I saw that day in the studio, how he handled the chords of his fame. I would note, too, that it is essential to my way of thinking that one listen to and grapple with the implications of Personal Files, a two-disc posthumous release of home studio guitar and vocal workouts begun in 1973, before deciding about the vitality of his 1970s (and even 1980s) releases. And I renew my plea for SOMEONE to find the “Chicken In Black” video he turned into CBS when he wanted finally out of his deal in the 1980s.