SF Jazz Center with Rosanne Cash

Cash And Cooder On Cash: The Music Of Johnny Cash

I was in the 4th grade and things were not looking up. Then one day they played “Hey Porter” on the aircraft worker’s radio station. In those days you heard Bob Wills and Webb Pierce, which was good, but Johnny was something different. It was like a hand reached out from my little Sears radio and grabbed me by the shirt and said, ‘you’re coming with me now.’ That was 63 years ago. So, when Rosanne said, ‘Okay, let’s do Johnny,’ I said, ‘I think I’m ready.’