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October 31 Spiritual Bouquet: Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Phil. 4:4 SAINT QUENTIN Apostle of Amiens, Martyr at Rome Saint Quentin was a Roman, descended from a senatorial family. Full of zeal for the kingdom of Jesus Christ, he left his country and went into Gaul, accompanied by eleven other apostles sent from Rome. They separated to extend their campaign of evangelization to the various regions of France. Saint Quentin remained at Amiens and endeavored by his prayers and labors to make that region part of Our Lord’s inheritance. By the force of his words and...

In January 1968, Johnny Cash set up his band on a makeshift stage in the cafeteria at Folsom State Prison in California. "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," he said in his deep baritone to thunderous applause. Song after song, the inmates thumped their fists and cheered from the same steel benches now bolted to the floor. The morning that Cash played may have been the high-water mark for Folsom — and for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The men in the cafeteria lived alone in their own prison cells. Almost every one of them was in school or learning...

Here is video of the late Johnny Cash performing, "Ragged Old Flag" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic," at the 100th anniversary rededication of the Statue of Liberty on July 4, 1986. . . . . (Watch Video)

NASHVILLE, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Singer-songwriter Roseanne Cash says she's "appalled" by others invoking the name of her father, music legend Johnny Cash, to "further their own agendas." Writing on her Web site, Roseanne Cash, a Grammy winner with 11 No. 1 country music singles since 1979, took exception to unnamed people appropriating the memory of her father, who died five years ago. While not singling out anyone in the post, the message came only days after country music superstar John Rich said Johnny Cash would have supported likely Republican U.S. presidential nominee John McCain, The Nashville Tennessean said. Rich,...

A Johnny Cash tribute band will recreate the singer's legendary Folsom Prison concert 40 years to the day. The country star's performance in front of inmates at the US prison on 13 January 1968 won him critical acclaim. Cashback will perform Cash's greatest hits during a free, hour-long gig at Suffolk's Highpoint Prison on Sunday. A prison spokesman said Highpoint had agreed to allow the Cambridgeshire band to perform as "music has a positive impact on prisoners". Cashback's lead singer Lee Gillett told BBC News: "We wrote to the prison but we were not expecting a reply, but we got...

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STARKVILLE, Miss. A Starkville, Mississippi, man wants a pardon -- not for himself, but for Johnny Cash. The country music star spent a night in the Starkville Jail more than 40 years ago after a public drunkenness arrest. Cash wrote about it in his autobiography. He said after a concert on campus in 1965, Cash later went to a party at a fraternity house and was arrested by police while walking from his motel to a grocery store to buy cigarettes. He was released the next day. Another version of the story has Cash arrested while picking flowers in someone's...

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BOOK REVIEW & DISCUSSION: Ain't Got No Cigarettes: Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller By Lyle E Style "It's an endless story about Roger. He was one of the cleverest people I've ever met in my life." (Waylon Jennings) This is my own review of Ain't Got No Cigarettes, the first Roger Miller book ever published. My review is based on reading the book (twice) and having several discussions with Lyle E Style, the author. He may stop by later to answer questions (as his schedule allows). This one is a must-read, folks. And for you radio personalities who...

When Syd Barrett died earlier this summer, you would've thought I was a personal friend or relative. My wife called. Co-workers asked if it was going to inspire a column. Old friends sent e-mails. If you don't know - which is no crime, trust me - Barrett was a founder of the classic rock band Pink Floyd in the mid-1960s. He only stuck around for one full album before a drug addiction made him an impossible creative partner for a group that went on to do tremendous things in his stead. Some of Pink Floyd's best work - songs like...

It’s a special thing when artists who’ve achieved greatness in their own right join forces to create a new musical entity. We’ve been blessed with a number of these “supergroups”: Blind Faith, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Velvet Revolver and Golden Smog, to name just a few. When a supergroup clicks, it can be magical. But when they don’t work…look out. The Million Dollar Quintet It’s a little-known fact that the Million Dollar Quartet —Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins— was originally a quintet. The fifth member of this historic December 4, 1956, Sun Studios jam...

NEW YORK -- He died nearly three years ago but Johnny Cash is back at the top of the charts _ for the first time in 37 years. The accomplishment, though, is muted slightly: "American V: A Hundred Highways," a compilation of recordings by the Man in Black, reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart with a record-low sales figure for a first-place debut, 88,000 units, according to the Web site billboardradiomonitor.com. The disc is Cash's first No. 1 album since 1969's "Johnny Cash at San Quentin." It also tops Billboard's country-albums chart, pushing the Dixie Chicks' "Taking...

For a movie that is so scrupulously accurate in so many respects, "Walk the Line" makes surprisingly little of the abiding faith that Mr. Cash always credited, along with Ms. Carter, for saving his life. "That dimension of Cash's life, which was present all the way through, was absent," said the Rev. C. Clifton Black, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, who criticized the film for that reason in a review for the magazine The Christian Century. "I was stunned."

New Navy Working Uniform and Service Uniform Concepts Approved Story Number: NNS060302-11 Release Date: 3/2/2006 12:35:00 PM By Chief Journalist Michael Foutch, Task Force Uniform Public Affairs WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Outfitting the Sailor of the future took another step forward last week when Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Mullen approved plans for a single working uniform for all ranks and a year-round service uniform for E-6 and below Sailors. Based on recommendations made during a comprehensive briefing by Task Force Uniform Feb. 24, Mullen agreed to production of both a BDU-style working uniform for all Sailors E-1 to O-10...

DEBUNKING CINDY SHEEHANHEAR ABE LINCOLN/JOHNNY CASH + PBS' NEIL CONANby Mia T, 8.31.05 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)   "You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East."--Cindy Sheehan "And if you think I won't say bulls**t to the President, I say move on, cause I'll say what's on my mind."--Cindy Sheehan   The trusty triad's half-truths, exaggerations and outright lies,...

KINGSPORT - The last of her generation, Carter Family matriarch Janette Carter, 82, died early Sunday morning at Holston Valley Medical Center after slipping into unconsciousness and being hospitalized on Tuesday. Carter was the last surviving daughter of country music legend A.P. Carter, who was the founder and leader of the country music trio The Carter Family that began recording in 1927. With the death last March of Janette's brother Joe, Janette became the last surviving child of members of the original Carter Family group. Janette Carter had been unconscious since Tuesday evening, but her struggles with health problems were...

WHEN the new movie Walk the Line about the life of Johnny Cash opens in London next week, cinema-goers will be treated to a selection of his songs in London Underground stations. Buskers are being hired for £40 a day to sing Cash’s hits as part of a marketing ploy to sell CDs. Record companies have discovered that one of the best ways to promote a new release is to pay buskers to sing its songs to some of the 3m people who use the Tube each day. The stunt will surprise many travellers who believe buskers are enterprising musicians...

The acclaim surrounding Johnny Cash and the recent hit biopic about him—Walk the Line, whose two leads, Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and Reese Witherspoon as his wife June Carter, are up for Golden Globe awards Monday night in Beverly Hills—raises a question. Why has Cash stood out for Hollywood from the ranks of country singers, most of whom mainstream popular culture dismisses and parodies as musically unsophisticated rednecks? Granted, Cash’s life story is filled with film-worthy drama: the Arkansas cotton farmer’s son who becomes a star, records with Elvis, but must overcome drug addiction, a marital break-up, and a series...

The event was organized by Chuck Colson's PRISON FELLOWSHIP .... ------------------------------------------- Actor's tribute to Cash jail show Joaquin Phoenix, tipped for an Oscar for his portrayal of musician Johnny Cash, has followed Cash by performing at Folsom State Prison in California. More than 50 prisoners watched a screening of Walk the Line, in which Phoenix plays the late country star. Phoenix then played several songs at the prison's Greystone Chapel, including Cash's Folsom Prison Blues. Referring to absent co-star Reese Witherspoon, Phoenix said: "I know you guys would probably rather see Reese." Hit live album Cash famously played in the...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Kathy Cash, one of Johnny Cash's five children, was so upset about how her mother is portrayed in the upcoming movie "Walk the Line" that she walked out of a family-only screening _ five times. She thinks the movie, which opens nationwide Nov. 18, is good and that performances by Joaquin Phoenix as her dad and Reese Witherspoon as her stepmother, June Carter Cash, are Oscar-worthy. But she also said the film unfairly shows her mother, Vivian Liberto Distin, Johnny Cash's first wife, as a shrew. Actress Ginnifer Goodwin plays her in the movie. "My mom was basically...

There was an empty seat at this year’s MTV Music Video Awards. The late Johnny Cash wasn’t there. It’s not as though Cash frequented the Generation X/Y annual awards program. He was old enough to be the grandfather of the most seasoned performer on the platform. Still, two years ago, even while he was sick in a hospital, the Man in Black was there. At the 2003 awards show, Cash’s video “Hurt” was nominated for an award—up against shallow bubblegum pop acts such as that of Justin Timberlake. Cash didn’t win. But the showing of the video caused an almost...

Walk the Line Ignores Cash's Christianity by Jack Langer Posted Nov 21, 2005 Just as I began contemplating walking out of the new Johnny Cash biopic, Walk the Line—it was when Cash is in the throes of a drug addiction withdrawal scene ripped off from the movie Ray—I turned my head and saw the middle-aged woman next to me dabbing her tears with a handkerchief. I found the display deeply surprising and somehow unsettling; I’ve been more emotionally affected by Kenny’s death in most episodes of South Park than I was by any scene in this movie. But my weepy...

I was 19 when I fully understood that historians often can’t grasp the complexities of the characters they purport to speak of. It's something I learned once in a history class, when a professor suggested that George Washington was less than devout and merely used civil religion to unify the nation. When I raised my hand to question this, I was told to bring in evidence to the contrary--which I did the next day, reading aloud from Washington's diary, in which he expressed his deep religious faith in the manner less of a president and more of an 18th-century revival...

As most people know by now, the biopic of Johnny Cash, Walk the Line, is set to hit theaters on November 18 and is then set to reap a range of Oscar nominations. And as most people also know, it is a film about a rebel and legend, about a Man in Black who nearly kills himself before turning to the light. But while a movie about a musician battling addictions and the demons of his past is not unusual, a movie about a musician sharing a faithful, lasting love for 35 years is. Before their deaths in 2003, Johnny...

Two years ago this month, musician Johnny Cash passed away. I have been a fan of his music since as far back as I can remember, and one of my favorite songs is "Ragged Old Flag." Its theme resonates throughout American history, but today it seems lost. In "Ragged Old Flag," Cash tells the story of Old Glory, where it came from, where it went, and how it waves on despite hard times. In one verse he sings, "You see, we got a little hole in that flag there/ when Washington took it across the Delaware/ and It got powder...

Richard Maltby Jr., the director who guided Ain't Misbehavin' and Fosse to Broadway, is staging and co-creating the new Johnny Cash-inspired musical, Ring of Fire, in its test run at Studio Arena Theatre in Buffalo, Sept. 2-Oct. 9. The world premiere, subtitled The Johnny Cash Musical Show and conceived by William Meade, will move to San Francisco's Curran Theatre in January 2006 before heading to Broadway in March 2006. Singer-songwriter Cash, a country music and blues legend, died in 2003. The new theatrical event features six actors and eight musicians, bringing theatrical life to his classic story songs. The show...

There are two new books out about the legendary Johnny Cash, and there's a definite Council Bluffs connection to be found in them. That's not surprising because Council Bluffs had a special place in Cash's heart. In "My 33 Years Inside the House of Cash" by Peggy Knight, the cover photograph shows Cash performing in Council Bluffs in 1987, a photo taken by local resident Dennis Devine. There's also a touching paragraph on the back cover from Devine about his longtime idol. In the book, "I Still Miss Someone - Friends and Family Remember Johnny Cash," there's an eight-page chapter...

Almost 50 percent of Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief. For decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of people. It is a mystery that only science can solve, and yet the phenomenon remains largely unexamined. Most of the reporting on this subject by the mainstream media holds those who claim to have seen UFOs up to ridicule. On Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" takes a fresh look at the UFO...

WHY would a serious journalist like Peter Jennings tackle a silly subject like UFOs? Maybe it's because 40 million Americans can't be wrong. It turns out that 40 million of us have claimed to have seen UFOs, while half — yes, half — of all Americans believe in their existence… < snip > So, why, if millions of people have seen UFOs, are the eyewitnesses immediately reduced to the level of raving loonies (from "lunar")? Interestingly enough, that is the legacy of another successful government PR campaign…< snip > The feds thought they could keep a lid on UFO sightings...

Was feeling awash in pride for my country this evening. Happened to be listening to a little Johnny Cash, and though you might find his 'Ragged Old Flag' inspiring. Apologies for terrible HTML formatting. ------------------------------------------------------- I walked through a county courthouse squareOn a park bench an old man was sittin' there.I said, 'your old courthouse is kinda run down'.He said 'naw, it'll do for our little town. I said 'your old flagpole has leaned a little bit'and that's a ragged old flag you got hangin on it' He said 'Have a seat', and I sat down'Is this the first time...

A couple of weeks ago I unleased John Kerry's Bad Rap on FR and do to overwealming hits, I had to move it to a new server due to it crushing my server space on sbcglobal. (thank you one and all!) The Kerry Rap in all honesty was a secondary project. I always wanted to do a serious flashmovie on President Bush with Johnny Cash singing "When The Man Comes Around" (your spared my singing voice) I collected literally hundreds of photos published in the "Day in the Life of President Bush Thread". (Special thanks to freepers GretchenM, MJY1288, rintense,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Erin Siegal heard one of the many soirees linked to the Republican National Convention included a celebration of Johnny Cash, the Man in Black fan said she just had to do something."A lot of his political songs really represented issues the Republicans don't really seem to care about very much," Siegal said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I find this really offensive, for his name or his memory to be used like this." The 22-year-old Brooklyn art student has organized a protest of the Cash bash. She launched a Web site dedicated to her...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Sick and consumed by grief after his wife's death, Johnny Cash struggled to record his last songs and spoke regularly with the Rev. Billy Graham for comfort, according to a new family authorized biography. "He would look at me, a couple of times with tears in his eyes, and he would say, 'I can hardly wait to see heaven, to see the Lord and to see our family,"' Cash's sister Joanne Yates tells author Steve Turner in his book, "The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love and Faith of an American Legend," set for release Sept. 13....

Cash family rejects piles of cash By Hugh Davies, Entertainment Correspondent (Filed: 19/02/2004) The family of the late Johnny Cash is outraged at a plan to use his 1963 classic song, Ring of Fire, to promote a haemorrhoid ointment. Advertising copy writers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, thought the lyrics, ". . . and it burns burns burns, that ring of fire, that ring of fire", were perfect for such an advert. Johnny Cash So did Merle Kilgore, the song's co-writer and the manager of Hank Williams jnr. He said he had often joked about the pile cream possibilities of his...

The family of late singer Johnny Cash has blocked an attempt by advertisers to use his hit song Ring of Fire to promote haemorrhoid-relief products. The idea had been backed by Merle Kilgore, who co-wrote the song with Cash's wife, June Carter Cash. Cash's daughter Rosanne said the family "would never allow the song to be demeaned like that". Cash and his wife died in 2003. Kilgore said he had not intended to upset the family. He said at first he thought the idea was funny, and he had often joked about haemorrhoids onstage whenever he would introduce Ring of...

In the world of popular music, one generally becomes a “legend” only in death—as if death accomplishes for a musician all that he was unable to do for himself in life. Legends are often made in the manner of their death—in a helicopter crash, say, or collapsed on the bathroom floor. But Johnny Cash’s death at seventy-one on September 12 was decidedly un-legend-like: silent, slow, and unspectacular. Yet “legend” seems, if anything, not big enough a word to describe Johnny Cash. We all knew the end was coming, particularly after June Carter, to everyone’s shock, beat him to it. But...

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Daughter of Singer June Carter Cash Found Dead Deaths of Adams, Fiddler 'Suspicious' Associated Press Sunday, October 26, 2003; Page A18 CLARKSVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 25 -- The daughter of late country music singer June Carter Cash was found dead in a parked bus along with a Nashville bluegrass fiddle player, authorities said. Officials said carbon monoxide from six propane or kerosene heaters on the bus may have killed the two and that an autopsy was planned. The bodies were found Friday afternoon. Ted Denny, spokesman for the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, said Saturday that the deaths were "suspicious." He said...

The day the man in black died. (A collection of memories) September 12th 2003 By : J. King. Edited by : J.Rousse & S.King. It was a morning like any other. I raced around the house gathering my things in a rush against the clock. I had just finished getting my wife a towel when I stepped into the living room and looked up at the TV, which displayed an image of Johnny Cash on the screen. Below his picture read a caption in white italic writing stating “1932 to 2003”. My heart sunk. The day came that many people...

  Remembering Johnny "Johnny was the North Star." Bob Dylan I was asked to give a statement on Johnny's passing and thought about writing a piece instead called "Cash Is King," because that is the way I really feel. In plain terms, Johnny was and is the North Star; you could guide your ship by him -- the greatest of the greats then and now. I first met him in '62 or '63 and saw him a lot in those years. Not so much recently, but in some kind of way he was with me more than people I see...

Johnny Cash didn't know he would get free room and board when he booked a performance at Mississippi State University in l965. Unfortunately, his overnight accommodations weren't voluntary and he cooled his heels in a Starkville jail cell after the concert. Cash wasn't walking the line in the wee hours of May 11, 1965, when he was arrested for cavorting in a Starkville resident's flower garden. The incident has been told and retold many times, particularly on Sept. 12, when the 71-year-old singer's death was announced. "I was whistlin', pickin' flowers, swayin' in the Southern breeze," recalled Cash in the...

JUST MONTHS BEFORE JOHNNY CASH DIED, Elizabeth Miller, writing in the highbrow literary magazine McSweeney's, said that "The Man Comes Around"—the title song on his last album—"just might be the best song I have ever heard in my entire life." The song is a montage of biblical images and quotations about death, hell, judgment, and the coming of Jesus, the Man who comes around. Ms. Miller said that she has no idea what it all means, but that she cannot stop playing it over and over: "After hearing this song, the song that I listen to every night before I...

Country-Western singing legend Johnny Cash, who died last week in Nashville at age 71, was remembered fondly by Israeli officials as a staunch supporter of the Jewish state. A frequent visitor to Israel, Cash released an album in 1968 titled “The Holy Land” which dealt with his love of the country. The lyrics to one of the songs on that album, “Come to the Wailing Wall,” speak movingly of the strong connection he felt: “Shout it across the mountain/Shout it cross the sea/We have been delivered/Israel is free/Come to the Wailing Wall... “Bring the lost ones homeward/Lead them to this...

Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs. He had listened to those hymns with taking his mother's milk, in brush-arbor revival meetingsinthe Arkansas backwoods, but it was the drugs that took the message public. Whenhe straightened up and kicked amphetamines, he confessed to the earlier hypocrisy in praising the Lord. He hated it that he sang of the serenity of peace with God when he didn't feel a word of it. But perhaps it was the gap between public performance...

Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while stoned on drugs. He had listened to those hymns with taking his mother's milk, in brush-arbor Pentecostal revival meetings in the Arkansas backwoods, but it was the drugs that took the message public.When he straightened up and kicked amphetamines, he confessed to the earlier hypocrisy in praising the Lord. He hated it that he sang of the serenity of peace with God when he didn't feel a word of it. But perhaps it was the...

Israel Remembers Johnny Cash As Strong Supporter By Jason Maoz Country-Western singing legend Johnny Cash, who died last week in Nashville at age 71, was remembered fondly by Israeli officials as a staunch supporter of the Jewish state. A frequent visitor to Israel, Cash released an album in 1968 titled “The Holy Land” which dealt with his love of the country. The lyrics to one of the songs on that album, “Come to the Wailing Wall,” speak movingly of the strong connection he felt: “Shout it across the mountain/Shout it cross the sea/We have been delivered/Israel is free/Come to the...

Tributes paid to Johnny Cash HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Friends, family and some of country music's biggest stars bid farewell to Johnny Cash at a funeral service, filling a Tennessee church with music, songs and memories of the "Man in Black". Former Vice President Al Gore, who said he had known Cash since his childhood, told the assembly inside the First Baptist Church near Nashville that he had talked to the entertainer just a few weeks ago and got a premonition of his death. He said Cash told him he had visited the grave of his wife, June Carter Cash,...

We walked trouble's brooding, windswept hills And we loved and we laughed the pain away At the end of the journey, when our last song is sung Will you meet me in Heaven someday? Johnny Cash wrote those lyrics many years ago for his wife, June Carter. The song is entitled "Meet Me In Heaven" and it testifies to the irreplaceable bond of love, trust, and devotion that was shared by the couple throughout their 35-year marriage. "We've seen the secret things revealed by God/ And we heard what the angels had to say/ Should you go first, or if...

He never forgot his roots. Johnny Cash, who died Friday at 71, was the soul of country music. In the tradition of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, he wrote and sang of working people with honesty and conviction. More than any other performer, he transformed down-home music into a cultural phenomenon. Cash, who was part Cherokee, gave voice in his music to Native Americans, prisoners and landless farmers. He has been my hero since the summer of 1963 when I first heard his "Ring of Fire" album. With Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, Cash in the 1950s on the...

On July 25, shortly after he had been nominated for six MTV Video Music Awards for his rendition of the Nine Inch Nails song Hurt, Johnny Cash talked with TIME's Lev Grossman: Why did you choose to cover that song, Hurt?It was [producer] Rick Rubin's idea. We were looking for a song that we felt had an impact. He found this one, and he asked me what I thought of it. I said, "I think it's probably the best antidrug song I ever heard, but I don't think it's for me." And he said, "Why?" I said, "Because it's not...