Johnny Cash CDs. Box Set Makes History with Release Of - Yes - Two Shows! Lyrics to "Hurt" song by Johnny Cash: I hurt myself today To see if I still feel I focus on the pain The only thing that's real The ne. The story behind Johnny Cash’s . Hurt.”Most people know that it was originally an (excellent in its own right) Nine Inch Nails song, but exactly how the cover and its iconic music video were put together only adds to its resonance. When asked if Cash could take on the song, NIN’s Trent Reznor at first said he was “flattered”, but worried that “the idea sounded a bit gimmicky” (his opinion would massively change, but we’ll get to that). The recording went ahead, produced by super producer Rick Rubin, and was released as a single in 2. One Hour Photo director Mark Romanek.“I begged Rick Rubin to let me shoot something to that track,” Romanek told Dave Urbanski in . He had only days to turn something around. Original conception for the video thrown out the window, Romanek jumped on a red- eye flight to Nashville and began scouting potential filming locations, leading him to Cash’s home and museum, The House of Cash. I cried the first time I saw it. Rick Rubin“It had been closed for a long time,” the director recalled. That’s when I got the idea that maybe we could be extremely candid about the state of Johnny’s health - as candid as Johnny has always been in his songs.”That idea would blossom into a heart- wrenching music video, that spoke about the transience of life, the gracelessness of death, the Ozymandian crumbling of an oeuvre and the decline of a genre, an era and an attitude. The . The cracked platinum records. The caviar and lobster banquet with no diners. The clips from earlier in Johnny’s career. His wife June looking on. The closed piano lid. The tears well at different times for different viewers - for me it’s always the pouring of the wine from Cash’s frail hand. June would die three months after filming, her husband, seven. Rick Rubin now sees the video as a historical document.“I cried the first time I saw it,” he said. To do it in a four- minute music video is shocking.”Reznor was sent the video while in the studio with Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha, and, when the pair sat down to watch it, any doubts he had about the cover were long gone.“We were in the studio, getting ready to work and I popped it in,” he recalled. There was, like, this moist clearing of our throats and then.
Watch videos & listen free to Johnny Cash: Hurt, I Walk the Line & more. Johnny Cash (born J.R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was a Grammy Award.
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