Johnny Cash – Hurt
An evening pause: A truly moving music video by Cash, reflecting on his life in music and pictures.
Make your own memories this weekend.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
Behind The Black
c/o Robert Zimmerman
P.O.Box 1262
Cortaro, AZ 85652
You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
Interesting choice. I was playing that on the way home from Quub this afternoon.
Songwriter Trent Reznor’s take on The Man in Black’s cover of the Nine Inch Nails 1995 release:
” It felt invasive.” It was the moving video, though, that made it all fall into place for the Nine Inch Nails star: “It really, really made sense and I thought what a powerful piece of art. “I never got to meet Johnny but I’m happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug.”
Sep 12, 2023
The Greatest Cover Song of All Time?
Nine Inch Nails, Johnny Cash, and “Hurt”
https://youtu.be/2Z9pB4yI-BQ
8:09
I’m going to drop this in here.
(One point for every person you can ID in this video….)
Johnny Cash –
“God’s Gonna Cut You Down” (November 2009)
https://youtu.be/eJlN9jdQFSc
2:51
Something I never noticed until this view.
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
Which is reflected in his section of the highwaymen.
I’ll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
I know this is a cover but its interesting themes the keep coming up in his music over this life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkcAH-m9W0