Re: NBC-Johnny Cash

Date: 01 Feb 2003 06:56:38 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.artists.springsteen
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<<<I don't know who came up with the idea of having Cash cover a Nine Inch
Nails song, but it works perfectly. SGH>>>
Assuming your question wasn't rhetorical (<g>), I'm gonna go with Rick Rubin,
producer of the record. From a feature story on the release:
http://universalcountry.ca/johnnycash/index.php
(begin excerpt)
Cash reveals a special fondness for the two songs on "The Man Comes Around"
that are initially the most suprising choices - the industrial anthems
"Personal Jesus" and "Hurt," so dark and dissonant in their original
recordings. But when producer Rubin brought them to Cash's attention, he
recalled the demons in his own life and responded to them instantly. "I think
'Hurt' is the best anti-drug song I ever heard," says Cash. "It's a song about
a man's pain and what we're capable of doing to ourselves and the possibility
that we don't have to do that anymore. I could relate to that from the very
beginning." As for "Personal Jesus," Cash says simply "that's probably the most
evangelical gospel song I ever recorded. I don't know that the writer meant it
to be that, but that's what it is."
(end excerpt)
BP