Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson? Go!

[Shawn@PRS]

Willie or Johnny and why?

 

[veinbuster]

This is the toughest yet for me because both are iconic.
Willie has written a number of excellent songs that other people made famous.
I’ll go with Johnny though because I knew and liked him at a very early age and never stopped hearing him.

 

[walrus]

Johnny Cash.

 

[Wakester]

Cash, something about his voice, and the way he tells a story.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

Willie Nelson, because his name sounds like an illegal move in wrestling! Well that’s what I was told

 

[bodia]

Cash, something about his voice, and the way he tells a story.

I'm in this boat as well. Johnny, by a mile, for me.

 

[xjbebop]

Both....

 

[drawshot]

Johnny Cash, by a long shot.

The boom-chicka-boom rhythm of his songs has been intoxicating since I first heard them, way back in the day.

And his take on Trent Reznor's work was the reason I picked up acoustic guitar playing.

 

[jxe]

willie and ozzy singing johnny cash and dio songs.

 

[Huggy Love]

Willie is so much more than Cash on all musical levels, I think they give Johnny too much love cause he spent time in the joint.
I guess it's a street cred thing.

 

[jxe]

i agree with huggy that automation won’t make cash any better and with les that it wouldn’t make willie worse.

Willie is so much more than Cash on all musical levels, I think they give Johnny too much love cause he spent time in the joint.
I guess it's a street cred thing.

 

[Huggy Love]

automation won’t make cash any better

I guess you never heard the Johnny C Easy E collaboration.

 

[jxe]

easy does it — lot of ‘cred’ on that track.

 

[alantig]

Johnny Cash over anyone else.

If not for Johnny, I may not have ever picked up a guitar. (Which I realize is not a ringing endorsement...). When I listen to his music, I still see the images I imagined to the songs almost 50 years ago.

Plus, I've never met Willie Nelson.

Cash. Always.

 

[Callan]

I think my first ever big concert was the highwaymen. At ~8 years old I probably just talked and whined the whole time. I wish I could see them again as an adult.
Highwaymen = Johnny cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. I Saw them twice in my youth, the second time I ended up getting the bandana off Willie's head! That was pretty cool.

 

[alantig]

Nice. My first concert was Johnny Cash, the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers, and Carl Perkins. My mother took me up closer to the stage so I could get a better look - at least 125 feet away from the stage and I was shaking because I thought he might see me.

 

[Jmartin]

Cash, no question.

 

[WeFixFlats]

Willie because he's still alive and his birthday was yesterday...

 

[veinbuster]

Nice. My first concert was Johnny Cash, the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers, and Carl Perkins. My mother took me up closer to the stage so I could get a better look - at least 125 feet away from the stage and I was shaking because I thought he might see me.

So now we know where the addiction started.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Willie.