Johnny Cash. Good Morning. ‘Well, hello there little lady.’ (Said like John Wayne.)
You’re funny. ‘Why the hell not!’ (Johnny laughs.)
We love listening to your music, especially my brother-in-law Neil, he is a huge fan. You feel your music in your heart. ‘It’s the hearts that have been broken and busted up that feel my music the most. The man in black speaks to those with blackened hearts to be restored in the blood.’
We all have a role to play. ‘We do. The lives I touch are different from the lives you touch. It’s in the tuning, the fine, delicate tuning of the strings. The frequency, the lines of consciousness that do not bleed.’
That is a powerful responsibility. ‘It is darlin’, it is.’
My husband would like to know if you wrote your own songs. ‘Yes, but mostly the songs wrote me.’
Divinely inspired? ‘I’m not sure that I would put it like that. It’s more like getting stuck then dragged through the mud and falling face first into a deep mud puddle after tripping over tree roots that you couldn’t see. You make your way out to lie on your back on solid ground, then the rain comes to wash you clean. You wipe your eyes for the tears are all gone and then you see it.’
See What? ‘The shards of light burning off the cloud cover. The most beautiful, brightest rainbow you ever saw. It’s God’s promise. “Son, I’ve got you” It says, “I’ve got you.”
That is beautiful. ‘It’s all true. Don’t listen to what the world tells you. Don’t get stuck in your head and over-complicate it. Be nice, love your neighbor. If you can’t love your neighbor, just be nice.’
Is there anything else you wish to share before I go Johnny? ‘Love. Love is a burning flame that goes down, down, down until the flames reach higher and higher. Be love. Be fire. Reach higher.’
Thank you Johnny, love and gratitude to you sir. ‘Thank you little lady with the big heart and fire in her belly!’
Channeled message from Johnny Cash, (J.R. Cash) born in Kingsland, Arkansas, 1932-2003. Johnny had three older and three younger siblings, his brother Tommy was also a successful country artist. Under the New Deal colony established in the Great Depression under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cash worked the fields of cotton with his family singing as they worked. Suffering a flood during his childhood, he later wrote the song “Five Feet High and Rising”. His families struggles during this time connected him to the poor and working class that inspired many of his songs. Johnny lost his brother Jack in a farming accident when Jack was 15. Johnny and his mom had a foreboding sense of doom but his brother went to work anyway because the family needed money, a guilt that Cash always carried with him. Johnny Cash wrote over 1,000 songs. Thank you Johnny.