99 Reasons 

Why Johnny Cash Is Cool!

On a recent email post Norman Schwagler took the opportunity to sit down with his computer and think of 99 reasons why Johnny Cash is cool. Though they are one person's opinion, many of the reasons unlock the passion many feel towards Cash music. Scroll down and enjoy this creative look at why Cash is Cool!

guns

guitars

I don't care if I do I do I do I do...

seventies headphones

sideburns

women

family

god

belt buckles

black

morals

history

trains

drugs

alcohol

traveling

leaving

coming back

leaving again

prison

camaraderie

humor

friends

strength

America

cars

Sun Records

putting paper in his guitar strings in the late 50's when recording "I Walk The Line" and wanting the sound of a snare drum (before drums were commonplace in recording studios)

modesty

there is no Cashland

still playing

love

life

walking the line

never changes

my dad likes him

rolls his own cigarettes

pissed - off

lights a candle in the dark instead of complaining about it

tells it like it is

quiet

dangerous

cowboy hat

boots

he's not a wimp

fists

John Henry

the working man

gets even with his foreman

respects women

great story teller

got dirty and came clean -- proves dirtier than ever

gives the finger on friends calendar

sweats

me and Tom Canning played along (we thought) to his songs on our plastic Mickey Mouse guitars when we were 8 years old

easy to understand

never went through disco

flower

beatbox

all-electric phase

Oney

Ira Hayes

tells about the plight of Native Americans

wouldn't do well in Japan

tall

Folsom prison

shot a man

mystery

compassion

passion

energy

subtlety

work ethic

image

fire

dusty

album covers

he'll never sound better on a CD than on a twelve inch thirty-three and one third revolutions per minute scratchy slice of vinyl

never smiles unjustly on album covers

June Carter Cash is cool

she's Johnny's woman

realizes he's a custodian to something greater - music

ducks in order

makes Bono look like even more of a wanker than he already is

probably makes anybody more wankerlike

carpentry

let's the Carter-Cash family singers out on stage in the middle of the set

but know's what's what and closes with just him and the boys

never heard him scream

never seen him naked

punk rockers (Oi) moshing at his Seattle concert

baritone

sorrowful

proud

never had sunken in rock star cheekbones

thinking about him took up almost an hour of my time at Cleveland Airport

Johnny Cash...wait a second...JC..JC...HE'S A CHRIST FIGURE!

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