April's Theme: Music from the Movies
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm6ZO62IT4]
This song was NOT originally recorded by Johnny Cash, as I'm sure a lot of people believe it was. It was written by Cash, June Carter and Merle Kilgore, but it was first recorded by Carter's sister, Anita Carter. Cash was the artist that made it popular of course, and I've posted his version below. Phoenix actually did the vocal work on the version above, and he did a good job in my opinion.
There is some debate about the way the song was written. Cash's first wife claims, in her book I Walked the Line, that Cash actually wrote the song "about a certain private female body part", and he just let June take credit as a co-writer. As ominous as the title sounds, the other story is that June started writing it about the way she felt while she was falling for Cash. I personally think it reflects Cash's drug and alcohol addictions very well. I'm a huge fan of the mariachi hons in Cash's version, too. He claimed that he heard the song this way, with the horns, in a dream. After hearing it his way, he told Anita that he'd give her a few more months, but if the song didn't hit big for her, he was going to record it his way.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It7107ELQvY]
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