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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
GET RHYTHM: A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH
It’s a two-hour tribute in song and story to the Man in Black. We’ll hear from his family, friends and associates on the contradictions—preacher, outlaw, loving family man, rockabilly rebel—that made the man. Voices include Rosanne Cash; son John Carter Cash; sister Joanne Yates; bassist and original member of the Tennessee Two Marshall Grant; guitarist Johnny Western; producer Rick Rubin; long-time manager Lou Robin; writer and critic Michael Streissguth; and, of course, Johnny Cash.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
The Legend, Columbia - Get Rhythm Johnny Cash
The Legend, Columbia - CLIP: Rosanne Cash
- Post: Big River Johnny Cash
The Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family - Big River Johnny Cash
Legend, Columbia - SEGMENT: Growing Up
- CLIP: Joanne Cash Yates
- Post: Pickin' Time Johnny Cash
The Legend, Columbia - CLIP: Johnny Cash
- Country Trash Johnny Cash
Solitary Man, American - CLIP: Biographer Michael Streissguth
- Five Feet High and Rising Johnny Cash
The Man in Black 1959-1962, Bear Family - SEGMENT: Tennessee Two
- CLIP: Bassist Marshall Grant
- Post: Wide Open Road Johnny Cash
Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family - Post: Wide Open Road Johnny Cash
Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family - Post: Intro Tennessee Two from "I Got Stripes" Johnny Cash
Live Recordings from the Louisiana Hayride, Scene - Luther Played the Boogie Johnny Cash
Legend, Columbia - SEGMENT: Sun Records
- CLIP: Marshall Grant
- Hey Porter Johnny Cash
Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family - CLIP: Johnny Cash
- Post: Cry, Cry, Cry Johnny Cash
Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family - SEGMENT: "I Walk the Line"
- CLIP: Marshall Grant
- Post: I Walk the Line Johnny Cash
The Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family - Post: I walk the Line Johnny Cash emcee intro
Live Recordings from the Louisiana Hayride, Scene - Post: I Walk the Line Johnny Cash
The Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family - CLIP: Joanne Cash Yates & her cell phone ringer
- Instrumental: I Walk the Line Red Rhodes & the Roadrunners
Dobro Album, Crownstar Records - SEGMENT: Family
- CLIP: son John Carter Cash and Rosanne Cash
- POST: Don't Take Your Guns to Town Johnny Cash
Man in Black 1954-1958, Bear Family - POST: A Satisfied Man Johnny Cash
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Original Soundtrack, Maveric - CLIP: Rosanne Cash
- Tennessee Flat Top Box Rosanne Cash
Hits 1979-1989, Columbia - SEGMENT: Faith
- CLIP: Biographer Michael Streissguth
- POST: Great Speckled Bird Johnny Cash
Legend, Columbia - CLIP: Johnny Cash Franklin Bible Sessions
- BED: By the Side of the Road John Fahey
Of Rivers and Religion, Warner - CLIP: John Carter Cash
- CLIP: Rick Rubin
- CLIP: Joanne Cash Yates
- Daddy Sang Bass Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-83, Columbia - Instrumental: Ring of Fire The O'Neil Brothers Group
Oldies But Goodies on Guitar, Shamrock-and-Roll - SEGMENT: Drugs
- CLIP: Johnny Cash
- POST: Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-83, Columbia - CLIP: Rosanne Cash
- SEGMENT: June
- CLIP: Marshall Grant
- Jackson Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
The Legend, Columbia - CLIP: Son John Carter Cash
- CLIP: June Carter introduces Carter Family onstage
Johnny Cash- The Man, His World, His Music, Cherry Red - CLIP: Johnny Cash
- If I Were A Carpenter Johnny and June Carter Cash
The Legend, Columbia - End Bed: Minor Tipitina Allen Toussaint
American Routes original recording,
HOUR two
- Open Bed: Ring of Fire Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia - Post: Ring of Fire (Spanish Version) Johnny Cash
The Man in Black: International Johnny Cash, Bear Family - Post: Rueda de Fuego Mingo Saldivar
Y Sus Tremendos Cuatros Espadas, Rounder - POST: Dub is My Occupation King Tubby
Dub Like Dirt, Blood & Fire - POST: Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
Live at Folsom Prison, Sony - POST: Crescent City Blues Gordon Jenkins
Seven Dreams, Dacca - SEGMENT: Prison
- Post: Folson Prison Blues Jonny Cash
Live at Folsom Prison, Sony - CLIP: Merle Haggard
- CLIP: Marshall Grant
- POST: I Got Stripes Johnny Cash
Live at Folsom Prison, Sony - CLIP: Michael Streissguth
- A Boy Named Sue Johnny Cash
Live at San Quentin, Sony - POST: Doing My Time Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash, Sony - SEGMENT: Original Outlaw
- CLIP: Son John Carter Cash
- POST: Cocaine Blues Johnny Cash
Live at Folsom Prison, Sony - CLIP: Guitarist Johnny Western
- POST: The One On the Right is the One on the Left Johnny Cash
The Man in Black- 1963-1969 Plus, Bear Family - CLIP: Michael Streissguth
- What is Truth Johnny Cash
The Legend, Columbia - CLIP: Rosanne Cash
- The Man in Black Johnny Cash
The Man in Black: 1963-1969 Plus, Bear Family - Instrumental: Nashville Skyline Rag Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline, Columbia - SEGMENT: Dylan
- POST: I Still Miss Someone Johnny Cash
Nashville at Newport, Vanguard - POST: It Ain't Me Babe Johnny Cash
The Man in Black- 1963-1969 Plus, Bear Family - POST: I Walk the Line Bob Dylan
The Dylan/Cash Sessions, Spank - CLIP: Rosanne Cash
- Girl From the North Country Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
Nashville Skyline, Columbia - CLIP: from film The Night Rider
- POST: I Still Miss Someone Emmylou Harris
Portraits, Reprise - POST: Cry, Cry, Cry Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Almost Blue, Columbia - POST: Get Rhythm Little Richard
Kindred Spirits: A Tribute to the Songs of Johnny Cash, Lucky Dog - One Piece at a Time Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983, Columbia - Instrumental: Delia Elizabeth Cotten
Shake Sugaree, Smithsonian Folkways - SEGMENT: American Recordings
- I Won't Back Down Johnny Cash
American III: Solitary Man, American - CLIP: Johnny Cash
- CLIP: Rick Rubin
- POST: Satisfied Mind Johnny Cash
American VI: Ain't No Grave, American - Before My Time Johnny Cash
American III: Solitary Man, American - CLIP: Rosanne Cash
- POST: Hurt Johnny Cash
American IV: The Man Comes Around, American - SEGMENT: Sickness/Death of June
- CLIP: Rick Rubin
- Flesh and Blood Johnny Cash
Unearthed, American - SEGMENT: Remembrances
- CLIP: Rosanne Cash
- Black Cadillac Rosanne Cash
Black Cadillac, Capitol - CLIP: Rosanne Cash, John Carter Cash, and Marshall Grant
- Bed: Green Green Grass of Home Allen Shelton
Shelton Special, Rounder - Wayfaring Stranger Johnny Cash
American III: Solitary Man, American
