And don’t get cute and do songs people don’t know are covers like I Will Always Love You or Torn

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      3 days ago

      Yeah…but only because he’s Johnny Cash. No way the cover was getting radio play if it was just some random old guy who recorded it

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      4 days ago

      Mercy seat and In my life are masterpieces in the original but his renditions are immaculate. It’s something about his low emotion, speaking from a position of looking back at the events rather than being emotional and in them like the originals.