Johnny Cash Songs : Cover Songs & Music Videos Category

  • The Laptop Sessions: “Long Black Veil” (The Band / Johnny Cash Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Thursday, June 12th, 2008

    By Chris Moore:

    Welcome to another video blog in the Laptop Sessions music video series! Today, I bring you a cover song that was written in the 1950s and was covered on two separate occasions by two of my favorite artists — Johnny Cash and the Band. Cash recorded it most famously on his Folsom Prison concert and the Band included it on their 1968 album Music from Big Pink. Both are great albums, and this is a fun song. I hope you like it…

    See you next session!

     



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  • The Laptop Sessions: “I Hung My Head” (Johnny Cash Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

    By Chris Moore:

    Hello and welcome to this Easter Sunday edition of the Laptop Sessions! Yes, that’s right, during 2008 we’re playing a song a day, even on the holidays…

    I thought it would be fitting to play Johnny Cash’s “I Hung My Head” for Easter — it involves death and the idea of moving on to heaven (or hell, depending on how you interpret his lyrics). This is from the same album as his final hit, his cover of Trent Reznor’s “Hurt.” I’ll be recording that one in the future, as well.

    On a side note, I should reach my 100th subscriber by my next session on Wednesday, and I’ll be giving him/her a $10 coupon to the Fusco-Moore Store, as promised! To think that, at the beginning of February, I only had 10 subscribers and I wasn’t planning on 50 until the end of the year…

    I hope you enjoy this video, and I hope you’ll comment or rate it!

     



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  • The Laptop Sessions: “Man in Black” (Johnny Cash Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

    By Chris Moore:

    I had such fun playing “Folsom Prison Blues” that it was only a matter of time before I chose another Johnny Cash song! This is one of my father’s favorites and my grandfather is also a big fan, so I’d like to send this one out to them!

    Well, I recorded this one in one perfect take… except for the very end, when I accidentally sang “I’ll try to carry off a little COLOR on my back…” instead of “darkness.” I obviously couldn’t let that go, so I re-recorded it. Again. And again. And again…

    You get the point. But, I’m really happy I learned it (and anyone in hearing range the other night must’ve learned it, too). Thanks for coming back to laptopsessions.com; check back tomorrow for an all-new session from none other than Jeff Copperthite!

     



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  • The Laptop Sessions: “Folsom Prison Blues” (Acoustic Rock Cover Song by Chris Moore)

    Sunday, November 18th, 2007

    By Chris Moore:

    I’ve always loved this Johnny Cash song; his songs often remind me of my grandfather and father and of my youth. That being said, no, I have never shot a man nor can I personally relate to this song. But, that being said, Jim was reminded today of another Johnny Cash performance that utilized the same chords, so thus there is a little surprise in the middle for all you Fusco-Moore fans out there…

    Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
    Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 5″:

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Johnny Cash Acoustic Cover Songs

Many have said that it is the personality as much as the acoustic music of Johnny Cash that is responsible for his success. Truly, there are few performers whose cover songs of other songwriters’ material are more respected. In the late nineties and early years of the new millennium, it became a compliment for Johnny Cash to begin recording an acoustic cover of another music artist’s song. One of his most famous and best cover songs was his recording of Trent Reznor’s “Hurt.” The NiN songwriter was impressed and honored by the cover. Johnny Cash reached this status through his own recordings, to be sure – after all, he was responsible for the songwriting and recording of many classic acoustic songs, such as “I Walk the Line” and “Man in Black.” He took on that nickname, due to his constant black garb – black jacket, black pants, black boots. Along with his voice, that instantly recognizable deep tenor, his personality – his religious beliefs and his roles in westerns – Johnny Cash has become an American icon in addition to a successful songwriter and performer. His acoustic guitar music helped set the tone for a recent trend of music artists releasing new rock music that sounds minimalist. He was the first of many after him – Neil Diamond and Jakob Dylan to name a couple – to record with Rick Rubin as producer. It is with pleasure that the Laptop Sessions songwriters have recorded cover songs from his catalog.