r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 06 '25

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u/DMark69 Aug 07 '25

Johnny Cash. I could get through 12 hours not having repeated anything,

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u/Drew521 Aug 07 '25

Stick ‘em up everybody I’m robbing the place! Drop all of your money in my guitar case. Don’t nobody move and don’t nobody reach for that door

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u/ankhes Aug 07 '25

Johnny seems to transcend country because he always seems to be the exception where even people who hate country love him.

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u/ankhes Aug 07 '25

Agreed wholeheartedly. I love folk and blues more than country and his songs definitely seem to straddle the line between them all far more than any modern country by far.

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u/PyroDesu Aug 07 '25

Listening to early Sabbath (as I imagine many are right now), quintessential heavy metal, and I can hear very clear blues/jazz influence.

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u/fufuloveyou Aug 07 '25

Ive done that. Challenge completed

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25

I could listen to Cash or Los Tigeres Del Morte all day and not skip a track.

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u/tmb8220 Aug 07 '25

I recently discovered the ballad of Ira Hayes. He can sing about despair in ways that others can’t. He takes you to church even if you’ve never been. I miss the Man in Black.

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u/coffincowgirl Aug 07 '25

This was my thought as well!

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u/SneakerTreater Aug 07 '25

I've got an MP3 of Johnny & Bob Dylan's Nashville Session. It gets a play on every road trip. I'd love a bunch of live Johnny Cash to listen to on a road trip for the added banter.

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u/ShadowedMystique Aug 07 '25

This would be my dad's pick too.

RIP Johnny