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Originally Posted by creekster
I am a big fan of Johnny Cash but he didn'[t write all of his own stuff and his work doesn't' have the breadth and depth of somebody like Springsteen or Dylan.
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His work very much has the breadth and depth of a Springsteen or Dylan.
In fact I'd say even much more so. He was touching lives and writing deep songs long before either of them became popular, and still was affecting people right up until about the day he died.
Ironically his cover of "Hurt"....which ironically being a cover from Trent Reznor, might've effected more people late in his career than anything Springsteen or Dylan have done in the past 20-30 years. That's one of the more heart breaking and emotional songs I've ever listened to and no one could've done it like him.
Springsteen and Dylan were great in their own way.....but neither of them comes even close to having the haunting kind of voice or emotion that Cash put into his songs. Springsteen sounds like someone's got his balls in a vice grip and Dylan can't sing at all...but they both can write.
Cash could and did ALL of the above and it could EASILY be argued that he wrote and performed music across more genres than either of them.
To me Dylan was weird as hell...but of course people think that weird and bizarre is ground breaking....and I guess it is...to a point. Yes he can write fancy lyrics that don't make a damn bit of sense,,,,but again....I guess to some people that's where his genius lies.