Johnny Cash’s “final performances” (parts 1-4)…June 21, and July 5, 2003 HQ remastered
Sorry, I gave the wrong date in the title and here in the text for awhile. This is the first of four parts, provided by jlabomb
. The first three parts were recorded by him on June 21, 2003. Part 4 was recorded two weeks later, July 5, by a friend.
Johnny Cash at the Carter Family Fold 6-21-03
Sorry for the camera work but we didn’t expect to be able to film it so I didn’t have a tripod. we got there 8 hours before it was to start and had front row seats, but it was so crowded they added folding chairs in front of us 15 minutes before it started. Also you wouldn’t believe how many people needed nachos when Johnny Cash is singing.
There are two songs on this first part. Surrounded tightly by fans who are walking back and forth (overcome by a desire for nachos according to the cameraman) and backed by a small combo, he opens with Folsom Prison Blues, and then gives a very moving performance of Sunday Morning Coming Down.
Above is Part 2 of JC’s farewell performances recorded on June 21, 2003.
Here he dedicates the song Angel Band to his recently passed on wife and life-partner of 40 years June Carter. This intro and the performance are very emotional and coming from deep in the heart.
A fragment of a song by his daughter-in-law, Laura Cash, ends the piece.
In Part 3 JC and band do Ring of Fire and I Walk the Line.
Part 4 of jlabomb’s four part “final performances” has the same two songs as part 3, but in reverse order. These were recorded by a friend of his (of the cameraman for parts 1-3) two weeks later on July 5, 2003.
The first song is I Walk the Line. JC then introduces the next and last song Ring of Fire by mentioning a visit that very evening that he had from June Carter–she had passed on less than two months earlier–who came “I guess from Heaven” to visit him. He was very grateful for the visit and mentions again the love they shared while she was with him and which remains after she is gone, the bond between them that cannot be severed.
