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Johnny Cash Tribute
Feb. 25th, 2013 09:12 amFriday afternoon on Facebook, Chris heard about a Sunday night concert by One More Round, a Johnny Cash tribute band. Despite the short notice and the fact that it came on top of both Conflation and Tammie's Grove weekend, he got us tickets and we all went, tired and sleep-deprived as we were.
Consider me blown away. The headliner's voice was spot-on, and he was obviously having a delightful time. He did a highlights tour of Cash's whole career, from "Cry Cry Cry" to "Hurt" and "Personal Jesus", with lots of our favorites as well as a few that were less familiar. The morbid and creepifying factor was high, with many songs about being hanged or shooting someone.
As an encore, after two pure gospel songs[1], we got a rousing rendition of "Ring of Fire". Rivendell Family sang at the tops of our voices. :-)
[1] one of these songs was "Do Lord". It's a song I remember learning as a kid, unrelated to anything Cash, but the words were slightly different. They sang "Do Lord oh do Lord, oh do come for me, way beyond the blue" but I learned it "...do remember me..."
Consider me blown away. The headliner's voice was spot-on, and he was obviously having a delightful time. He did a highlights tour of Cash's whole career, from "Cry Cry Cry" to "Hurt" and "Personal Jesus", with lots of our favorites as well as a few that were less familiar. The morbid and creepifying factor was high, with many songs about being hanged or shooting someone.
As an encore, after two pure gospel songs[1], we got a rousing rendition of "Ring of Fire". Rivendell Family sang at the tops of our voices. :-)
[1] one of these songs was "Do Lord". It's a song I remember learning as a kid, unrelated to anything Cash, but the words were slightly different. They sang "Do Lord oh do Lord, oh do come for me, way beyond the blue" but I learned it "...do remember me..."
