Has anybody reading this seen the video for Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt"?
I never really paid my attention to it, I mean, I love the song. But i'm talking about the soul stirring video and the thought provoking message in it. When I first saw it a few years ago, it reminded me of my dad right away. My Love of Old Country came from my dad, he loved Johnny Cash, George jones, Merle Haggard..all those great honky tonk trust tellers.
When I was a kid, i dreaded when he would have his buddies over and they would spend the night playing poker, getting drunk and listening to these Outlaws blaring at ear-drum shattering levels. At that age i was surely influenced more by my mothers angelic & church going ways. Which probably was'nt a bad thing at the time. My dad was a christian, he had a very special relationship between him and God. He wasnt the kind of mad who flat out said "I love you son" but his actions spoke volumes.
How when we would go fishing, he always let me use his pole .or If my brothers and i were figting he would seperate us and usually take me with him to his workshed and make me sit on the cement steps beside him as he worked on lawn mowers or one of our old bycycle chains. Every once in awhile glancing over to me and giving me a sly grin, letting me know...I was free to move about and help him, he would always keep cold root beet in a cooler inside his workspace, and sometimes he would go in and get us each one and he would open them with the bottle opener on his keys that hung on the side of his motor oil stained pants.
Most times it was just us sitting out there for hours at a time in the summer, not always for being in trouble, but just sitting there, enjoying the midday sun, or better yet..the sun goin down, gazing at the neighbors horses running up the hillside heading for the stable. My dad remind me so much of Johnny Cash & his music. I will always think of him each time a song comes on.
