Connecting Puss N Boots to Johnny Cash
15/08/2014
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When I first discovered this band 16/07/14 at AllMusic.com, it was as a feature item. I wondered what they might sound like, and hopped over to check them out on YouTube. There I found no "Official Video"s, all they have are live performances or fan-posted audio-only.
I was impressed, and gathered a playlist of some performances I liked. This was one of them; it sounded like an old country number. Then, this week while checking out CDs at the mall, I found close by each other, two Johnny Cash anthologies:
Johnny Cash 10 Greatest hits $7.99 Johnny Cash 8 Classic Albums 4 CD set $9.99 Guess which one I bought? (Strangely, the "Label" Real Gone Country, is not findable on the web as far as I can make out. There is a URL inside the case for www.musicmelon.co.uk but that appears to be dead as well. It is apparently not the same as the US-based Real Gone Records. Maybe they went bust after paying for all that DIGITAL REMASTERING AND ENHANCING FOR SUPERIOR QUALITY.) Last night I put on Disc 1, which starts with 1957 LP "Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar" and lo and behold, at track 5 I find where the girls got "Cry Cry Cry" from. The song was written by him as well.
There is a kind of cool involved in picking old and obscure tracks to record. I am guilty of much the same conceit, having assembled a list of songs "my" band would play, if such a band ever formed. |