Johnny Cash - I Am The Nation

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Pretty good video I found on you tube

Johnny Cash's America was not red, white, or blue, but black. And that blackness contained multitudes. While society has become increasingly divided. Cash navigated some of the most contentious issue of our time - war, prison, reform, youth discontent, religion, Native American rights - without losing his audience. Americans who can agree on little else have agreed on Johnny Cash. What lessons can be learned from his story?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OGUZEEQOj8

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1. thanks

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2. Johnny Cash Is Simply The BEST!

I am a long-time, die-hard Johnny Cash fan! Thanks for posting this!

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3. After watching Johnny Cash's America on Biography tonight

I had to bump this up.

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4. At Last It Can Be Told

The year was 1957, shortly after Elvis had been voted "King Of Rock And Roll."

Pissed off beyond belief, Jerry Lee Lewis demanded a recount. Much to his chagrin, Johnny Cash came out the clear winner--by a margin of thirteen points.

Though it seems impossible, Little Richard was inflamed by these results and demanded a second recount. Cash's margin went up another point, at which time Chuck Berry joined the fray. Upon the third recount, Berry came up second and Elvis went down by TWENTY points--behind Carl Perkins. Little Richard got such a shock that he renounced Rock And Roll and went to preaching.

It was at this point that Chet Atkins and Col. Tom Parker, aided by 27 New York lawyers, stepped in to have the recounts stopped and all results suppressed for fifty years.

Shorty before September 13, 2003, Cash came to me in a dream. He told me the whole story and how much it messed with his head to have been declared The Man so long ago ("Too much responsibiity" was the phrase He used). He swore me to secrecy for a period of five years--which has recently elapsed.

So I now proclaim unto you all that Johnny Cash is--and HAS BEEN since 1957, by whatever method you choose to verify it--the True King Of Rock And Roll.

Let every knee bow, let every tongue confess!

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