Eight Johhny Cash songs including "Folsom Prison Blues" and "I Walk the Line," are now offered for download to Rock Band 3. Probably more so than anyone else, Johnny Cash defined country music... real country music, not the glittered pop-tinged soft rock with a twang that oozes up from Music Row too often. His rags-to-riches story, complete with a flawed hero who chased away his demons but never fully shed the scars they left on his soul, may even define America.
After being turned out by Columbia records in the mid-80s, he eventually paired with indie rock producer Rick Rubin. Johnny was comfortable from the start. "I'm just going to roll some (recording) tape," Rubin told Cash, "and you just do whatever you feel like."
"Son," said Cash,"the only other person who ever said that to me was Sam Phillips. We're going to get along just fine." And so they did, winning the accolades of critics and fans, and piling up awards despite still receiving the cold shoulder from Nashville. (Of course, I had to include the in-yer-face "finger" ad that Rubin arranged to have published in the music industry trade journals after Johnny's Grammy win for "Unchained".)
His work with Rubin in the finals years of his life, hitting its zeinth with his cover of Trent Reznor's "Hurt," garnered Johnny a whole new generation of fans. No surprise, really. Cash always had one ear to the youth of America. Even on "The Johnny Cash Show," recorded at the Ryman Auditorium, then home to the Grand Ol' Opry, he provided a platform for musicians like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, even The Monkees.
The tunes selected for Rock band 3 are Cry, Cry, Cry, Don’t Take Your Guns to Town, Five Feet High and Rising, Folsom Prison Blues, I Got Stripes, I Walk the Line, Tennessee Flat Top Box, and The Ballad of Ira Hayes. The songs are available on Xbox 360, Wii, and PlayStation 3.
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