Johnny Cash sings “The Man in Black” for the very first time in 1971 to an American college audience, while the Vietnam war was ongoing. Most of the lyrics seem to still ring true.
Johnny Cash sings “The Man in Black” for the very first time in 1971 to an American college audience, while the Vietnam war was ongoing. Most of the lyrics seem to still ring true.
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Agreed. Most of those words used in those lyrics were truly real words.
our culture moves at such a rapid rate, while i can recognise this and him as great for his time, this music is just trash to my ears when compared with some of the advanced stuff artists like skrillex are putting out.
Didn’t know this was a protest song. I got chills from the cheers when he hints to the wrongdoings in Vietnam.
Fuckin’ A. Why he’s one of the greats.
wow!!!
He’s giving me the chills!
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[Johnny Cash – Hurt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FywSzjRq0e4)|[+1](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/6elrfq/_/dibi5ny?context=10#dibi5ny) – All his songs have some form of meaning. My favourite is Hurt: The music video is just too real…he talks about how things will be after he dies…i think its also about the record company that own him who will still make money from his “empire o…
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Truly an American treasure.
One of my favorite artists alongside Bob Dylan and many others, but Bob also wrote a few protest songs.
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College kids during Vietnam were able to avoid the draft but poor kids wound up going to war. College kids sympathized with them though and were very anti-war which was a huge problem for the US government.
Cash was playing in a college and changed the lyrics to show his support for the growing anti-war movement.
It’s interesting nowadays how the anti-war movement was killed off over years of media sanitization and propaganda.
It’s hard to believe that at one time Americans weren’t nihilists.
If Johnny Cash were still alive today, college kids in the US wouldn’t let him perform at their campus. They’d protest the shit out of him, call him a white nationalist, racist, misogynist Nazi and every other boogie-man name in the book. They’d set up human blockades preventing other students from getting in while calling those students the same names.
Not all heroes wear capes! What a champion!
I wish I could just see a bunch of first time performance videos of classic songs….
Fucking amazing
You don’t see a lot of music like this today, quality tunes with straightforward lyrics about serious topics. Wonder why that is. People say all the time that subtlety is the way to approach serious topics in song, but does that mean they enjoy deep thought, or do they simply want the meaning buried, so as to not have to deal with the way it makes them feel?
I miss that guy.
14 years. Wow.
Cash is king!
[…as I had another helping of Christmas ham, she said “we ain’t never been to Vietnam…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0mUOmE7-O0)