But he started out by modulating down and then modulating back up. And it-normally with a modulation, you would just start in a lower key and modulate up a half-step or a full step. The chords are changing and he's going up and down. It was just completely turned around and disassembled, and he's modulating down. It was almost like the Southern white man's version of Charlie Parker, in a way. "As an adult, I've really given it some thought about what music before could this song have derived itself from? I couldn't find it in Roy Acuff's music or Jimmie Rodgers because it was a folk format that those songs came from.
The song blindsided him, and he says he can only describe the experience that day as `otherworldly.' Crowell remembers the first time he heard "I Walk the Line." He was in the back of a car his father had borrowed to go on a fishing trip, just five years old. But his connection to Cash goes much farther back. Rodney Crowell is one of Nashville's most respected musicians, and he happens to have once been married to singer Rosanne Cash, Johnny's daughter.
Rushmore could open their mouths and sing, that's what it would sound like." Rushmore could open its mouth-any one of the sculptures on Mt. But if you ask Johnny Cash's fellow musicians to describe `the voice,' they reach for loftier words: `the voice of truth of wisdom of thunder of America something ancient, ageless, from the bowels of the Earth.' Singer and songwriter Rodney Crowell has his own take. In his autobiography, Cash wrote that, `The scent of hickory smoke is another memory gone deep in my bones.' And that smoke seems to have gone deep into his voice, too. When Johnny Cash was growing up in Dyess, Arkansas, in the 1930s, his parents,Ĭotton farmers, kept strips of green hickory smoldering in the smoke house day and night. It also influenced the course of some younger musicians' lives. "I Walk the Line" made the country and the pop charts, and pretty much set the sound for the man in black. Johnny Cash had his first big hit in 1956. But that was hardly news to people who've been listening to Cash since the 1950s. It happened again just recently when he released an album that included songs by Soundgarden and Beck and other rockers. He's been performing and recording for nearly 50 years, and every so often, a new wave of young music fans discovers him. Johnny Cash walks inside the gates of Folsom Prison, preparing to perform his fourth concert for inmates there.įor a lot of people, there's one voice that defines American country music.
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