TRUE STORY? 🎵 Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues REACTION

[@miguelnavarrete3893]

If I’m not mistaken “the crowd going crazy” were prisoners in Folsom prison, where Johnny Cash was performing.

[@debjorgo]

Yeah. He did this song in the Folsom Prison show. Most likely, this is it. It's not on Hymns by Johnny Cash.

[@sherbert500]

@@debjorgo it is the folsom prison live show!

[@rickyriederer7459]

Yepp

[@williammclaughlin8205]

Bro I visited Folsom they got deer and wildlife that domesticated themselves can feed and pet coons and possums out there too

[@dillonsronce2583]

You're correct.

[@playbassken]

That was from his live performance in Folsom Prison, actually. Johnny Cash is a legendary artist that was as wild as his music. RIP, JC.

[@HandleTakenlol]

The " shot" unfortunately refers to a needle. John was/is a legend. R. I. P. You Man in black

[@Herbert04]

Thank You. I was curious.

[@Transmodulator]

Love him for his true words, he had no scruples to sing how it really is, the dirty reality. When other singers sang about love, flowers and daisies, he never hesitated to tell the truth. RIP Johnny.

[@joegillam1497]

He kept it real his whole career and never sold out to the mainstream..Big respect to JC.

[@Transmodulator]

You also should watch "The Gift : The Journey of Johnny Cash", it's a documentary about him and his life, it's worth it. You'll find it on KZbin.

[@fronthorse]

But he sang about this stuff too. ☺️

[@tackle47]

Love this song and performance, Joaquin Phoenix did a hell of a job doing it in Walk the Line as well

[@lizwillnow7899]

Oh hell yeah he did!

[@nomasker1360]

And then there's George Thoroughgood's version .

[@t0dd000]

Cash shook the country music scene when he showed up.

[@kesleycottrell1416]

Don't forget to play Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant on Thanksgiving. It's a old hippie tradition.

[@leannmiller7153]

Yep, still play it every Thanksgiving ❤️

[@kesleycottrell1416]

We do too. Every year.

[@jorgerodrigues5880]

It's a MUST. Every year!

[@thomassamburgh5904]

Yes,got it on vinyl and cd,been listening over 40 years. Arlo has a lot of good stuff.

[@carmengrisham1748]

My mama loved Johnny she would have been 93 this year. I loved Johnny I'm 56. My daughter loves Johnny she's 31. He was such an amazing artist transcending so many generations.

[@jeremiahrose4681]

Such a great Artist and song, the man in black never fails.

[@timpindar]

Just… utterly… brilliant. I’ve loved this song and performance for years, and never tire of hearing it. What a legend!

[@ronin4580]

This is a remake of an old song by T.J. "Red" Arnall, which was itself a re-write of an older song called "Little Sadie". Jimi Hendrix's recorded his own version called "Hey Joe."

[@fuzzybutkus8970]

I thought we were only people who knew the real true story. It’s funny words are almost the same but no one makes the comparison.

[@galenstone9097]

Johnny Cash and Luther Perkins were the masters of the freight train shuffle rhythm. Great song. Cash DGAF

[@russallert]

Bassist Marshall Grant and drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland (with his two-handed style where the snare is as busy as the hi-hat) also played an important part in Cash's sound.

[@TZ61]

His voice is shredded, the guards are waiting for a riot, ROCK AND ROLL!

[@THEDEEPDIVE]

this is one of the songs that Cash would sing to put himself at the level of the criminals and also to give a lesson at the end of the song... This performance was live in front of prisoners at Folsom Prison. Cash wrote folsom prison himself but this one was written by someone else who had reworked the traditional song called Little Sadie. Cash really believed that people can change and even harden felons deserve to be treated as fellow brothers in humanity. We are all more than the worse things we have done.

[@ajaxslamgoody9736]

AMEN from a fellow bunk mate in the dirty Cleveland downtown jail......I was stuck with 3 gang members....Text me back

[@20sovereign23]

Totally badass, totally gangster, nobody did it better than Johnny

[@WilliamWarlick]

Ultimate Badass!

[@cmortenson3647]

one of my favorite Johnny cash songs. I can't believe anyone did a reaction to this. good on ya!

[@joegillam1497]

Cash nearly started riots at Folsom and San Quentin jails with songs like this.

[@AncientWisdomTeachingsLLC]

This was recorded at fulsome prison, and the crowd was going crazy because probably a lot of them have had that experience. Lol.

[@russallert]

It's especially chilling to hear them cheer when Cash sings Folsom Prison Blues and the line "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die".

[@Bikebrh]

back in the day cocaine was available in drinkable forms...that's how Coca-Cola started. There was cocaine in Coca Cola until at least 1904. This song is set in the late Old West, where drinkable cocaine syrup "patent medicines" would have been common.

[@estoy1001]

It was also injectable; as in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. His "seven percent solution" is what he uses as 7% cocaine & 93% saline from time to time. In fact, Dr. Sigmund Freud used it quite a lot back in the day (being the very early 1900's). Laudanum, opium & heroin would also have been easily available OTC.

[@michaelharvey75]

Free Market Economics for the win. .

[@TheSadpunk0]

Musicology is so interesting. While this is the most popular version of this song, it is actually a cover. There had been a previous popular version by Roy Hogshead that Johnny doubtless heard as a youth. The song itself is a reworking of the American folk ballad "Little Sadie", one of many so-called "murder ballads" from Appalachia and the South and the result of cross-pollination between African folk music and Anglo folk ballads. It is from music in these traditions that almost all modern popular music in the US and even the world emerged

[@lipby]

This is the important information.

[@tackle47]

Bravo for pointing this out

[@jeffreekoch9298]

Outlaw country music. 🎶 A little rockabilly.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Great song

[@bryansmith5980]

Johnny Kick a bad cocaine habit he had in the late 60 early 70's

[@DamnedEyez]

He mentioned Folsom because this recording was from a concert at Folsom Prison.

[@gavinsmith9016]

Fantastic song and performance. The whole live album, recorded in Folsom Prison, is fantastic. Recorded in front of the inmates. Each song version is better than its studio equivalent.

[@jeffreyflint6286]

Johnny Cash was and is the sh@t that all others wanna be!! Long live the legend in our hearts. 🤟🤟

[@wolfmanscott8669]

One of my faves by Johnny is San Quentin.

[@Bluewizard7131]

Just a bit of history, cocaine was originally an ingredient in Coca-Cola in the 1800's, so yes you can actually drink it in that form. But, I'm pretty sure he was using slang, just meaning a hit or snort.

[@DarthRaider520]

This was the essence of rebel country. Darkness, humor, and pure grit. It was the punk movement of its time.

[@detredwings21]

song was written by Troy Junius Arnall, a reworking of the traditional song "Little Sadie." Roy Hogsed recorded a well known version of the song in 1947

[@wolfdesikan1766]

I just love how Lex knows all about that yayo. 😂 The crowd went wild because this was recorded at Folsom prison.

[@Braveheart0484]

Awesome song. One of my favorites from Johnny. The album Folson Prison is one of the best ever done.

[@davemcbroom695]

I guess a shot of cocaine is in reference to a hypodermic shot. Sherlock Holmes found that a 7% solution was best but I dunno.😄

[@andyd.5195]

Try from Johnny, Personal Jesus. Cover version of Depeche Mode song. Really great. ❤

[@KC-pc8ou]

Dang .. listened to Johnny Cash for many years ... And never heard this song! Thanks for finding this one from your followers!!

[@thefoss5387]

This was a Country and Western song that was written in 1944 by a guy named Troy Arnall. Cash changed the lyrics in his cover, the original being, "99 years in the San Quentin Pen".

[@docdarlin5491]

Brad & Lex are so innocent. It’s adorable.

[@ctsmith580]

As others mentioned, Johnny was performing at Folsom Prison. The regular version of this song mentions San Quinten prison.

[@emilee22]

25 minutes to go is a fun song by johnny cash to react to, it was written by shel silverstein

[@77tml]

I think he was playing to the crowd ar Folsom prison. One of my favourite Johnny Cash songs. Have you checked out Orange Blossom Special by JC?

[@markbaker3013]

Thank you for sharing this with me 😊

[@eddiekoch3901]

I love hearing you guys trying to figure out what a shot of cocaine is. Johnny Cash broke all boundaries when he hit the scene.

[@manchasdos]

It's a rework of the song Little Sadie which is itself a folk song that's at least 100 years old. I assumed Cash wrote it but wikipedia just told me it's a cover from a recording some other dude made in the 40s.

[@davidhicks5992]

My favorite song to hear Johnny Cash sing is "Hung my head". Would love to see a reaction.

[@rubbersole79]

Johnny Cash: Gangsta about 30 years before Rap.

[@jonahtee5889]

My favorite Cash song. Thanks for reacting to it.

[@garyschill7923]

Suprised and pleased to see you react to this. Don't be afraid to do more Cash!

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Well, the crowd going crazy is the prisoners in Folsom prison. And the lyrics in the recorded version are actually about San Quentin pen. But obviously you would modify it in that situation and they loved him. There is a whole live album that he recorded there and guess what? He has a whole other live album that he recorded at San quentin!

[@spress7254]

One of the Great story tellers of his time.

[@belewda]

Glad to see you two still at it, haven't checked in for a while. Hope you had a happy thanksgiving and your holidays are awesome.

[@ComradeNerd]

"I thought I was her daddy, but she had five more." GODDAMN! 🤣

[@jimphilidor9031]

This song belongs to the tradition of murder ballads that probably goes way back, maybe even centuries. Nick Cave made a whole album called Murder Ballads, a semi-parody of the genre.

[@narlycat]

you might say that crowd was a real "captive" audience 🤣😂 Johnny Cash performed live at San Quentin prison (north of San Francisco) in 1969 and the concert was released as an album and it was a big hit. I can't believe I rolled into the San Quentin parking lot and asked if they had a gift shop because I confused the active San Quentin prison with the now empty Alcatraz prison. Alcatraz prison is on an island in the middle of the Bay and it's open to tourists but SAN QUENTIN ISN'T OPEN TO TOURISTS......UNLESS THE TOURISTS ARE COMING IN ONE WAY. Somebody's car at San Quentin had Folsom Prison written around their license plate so apparently the legend of Johnny Cash's 1969 performance there is still remembered.

[@matthews7805]

It's a riff in an old folk song called Little Sadie.

[@sidmark48]

Back in the day, You used a needle for coke!! That's when they say you feel the train!! :)

[@danw2276]

True bad ass. thanks!

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Oh and also, George Thorogood and the Destroyers have a ripping good version of this, obviously years later. It really kicks hard.

[@gkiferonhs]

People also inject cocaine. The "shot".

[@sydlawson3181]

I feel like we in the cocaine community mostly say "bump" these days but "shot of cocaine" is defo an expression I've heard around

[@TheNewRevolution]

I could be wrong but I think a shot of cocaine means IV use. You know.....needle and the spoon.

[@donmorfeo8901]

If you think about it, Cash was the original gangster rapper. RIP JOHNNY.

[@josephvanalstyne4049]

amazing album. pure Cash!

[@custardflan]

Performed at Folsom Prison in California, I b elieve. The crowd cheering are inmates.

[@williamburke1882]

Snort smoke and or inject, cocaine is versatile that way.

[@cletushouse906]

Coca Cola started out with coke in it. They were told NO you can not do that.

[@JustADrunk-u9z]

She is always on point

[@alexanderbeta-werburghii6176]

Great stuff, so glad you are reacting to this. There are more classics on 'Live at Folsom Prison' and 'Live at San Quentin', his best material and the best versions.

[@fcruz43215]

So friggin' cool!!!!

[@davidcmcchesney]

I heard they put a little in water & shoot it with works (before they smoked it, in the 50’s & 60’s) I don’t know about drinking it like a shot of Whiskey but I am sure someone has tried it.

[@cabel000]

Johnny Cash is the best. This is an old traditional country/folk song and has a few different names like Little Sadie. This one is the only version I've heard that mentions cocaine.

[@tonkatoy3636]

Maestro Fresh Wes - Let Your Backbone Slide

[@mattm402]

Along these lines is louisiana stripes by hank iii. In fact anything by III is killer.

[@lizwillnow7899]

Although Cash cultivated a romantic outlaw image, he never served a prison sentence. Despite landing in jail seven times for misdemeanors, he stayed only one night on each stay. On May 11, 1965, he was arrested in Starkville, Mississippi, for trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers.

[@STEELCITYBERMA]

Awesome!

[@Land-Shark]

Stevie Ray Vaughan was fond of drinking whiskey with cocaine in it. Pretty much every early video of Stevie playing music, he's jacked up on cocaine mixed with whiskey. Over the years, it almost destroyed his stomach and health (both physical & mental), until he cleaned up his act and went into "Man In Black" mode with his clothes and life shortly before dying in the helicopter crash.

[@allendixon7700]

I live near Johnny Cash's wife Jim corner how got the Carter f***** Carter fold is still happening today brother it's It's closed until the Spring but we'll be doing it again as the Carter felt better as a little young boy brother I actually shook Johnny Cash At times about 9 years old Johnny give a speech and it comes and shook my what's the back of the hood of course I was like 9 years old but he was

[@allendixon7700]

I love Johnny Cash brother I'm so you know so all that you know I'm I'm I'm there alright

[@allendixon7700]

I need to know something about brother I just don't know anymore from Miranda around you know what I'm thinking brother is Confederate railroad the round route take a train brother get on that track Confederate railroad and pick Some trashy women along the way brother trashy women Confederate railroad doing trashy women play that brother you gotta if you don't know the song play the song then come back to action Coming up part 2

[@allendixon7700]

OK now I have to give listen to the trashy women song by Confederate railroad have funny To me it would be hilarious but what do you think give me your European your thoughts half How d*** funny would it be for Brad and lex or any couple any couple to react to To react to Confederate railroad trashy women a couple a couple would that be funny brother? But some But make some real bad guys? On that dog s***???????????????

[@kj320175]

Cocaine Blues- Lonnie Mack is a great one to listen to as well.

[@jlara36]

A guy names Billy Hughes wrote this song in 1947, only the original version he wrote is a little bit more intense than this version. Just look up "Billy Hughes Cocaine Blues 1947" and give it a listen.

[@PHILPOP2]

Great cover

[@saratemp790]

This is a good example of playing to your audience, lol. I am sure the audience in jail could well relate to this.

[@mbsnyderc]

The song is based on an old murder ballad popular in bluegrass call little Sadie I've heard several version different than this one but there all the same basic story.

[@lindaaumiller7592]

Johnny Cash had done concerts in prisons.

[@harrytrevenen2310]

for a much more fun upbeat version listen to George Thorogood do it.

[@joedonlewis9820]

In Folsom Prison Blues he "shot a man in Reno just to watch him die". You should watch his big comeback hit video that freaked out the kids on MTV, Delia's Gone. Ozzy is Disney Land dark compared to Cash.

[@JS-iz2fk]

Johnny Cash was the Tupac of Country Music.

[@peesua]

'I thought I was her daddy but she had five more,' is one of the best lines ever.

[@SteveInTheOC]

That was a fun song 😂

[@stephaniecabrera9396]

Can’t Stop The Rain - Cascada

[@mikeengle6839]

A shot , a jab. Just what it says

[@shaundlevine]

a shot of cocaine -- modern day "let's go to the toilet." haha Ya'll are awesome

[@metrolax]

Johnny Cash. Nuff said

[@lachlantaylor1453]

Most of he’s songs are about he’s life

[@_LVC]

Try social distortion cover of ring of fire by Johnny 🎸🔥

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

I think the Song “Casey Jones” by Grateful Dead was inspired by this song.

[@matthewgentry3264]

Live at Folsom...

[@bdd1469]

You should watch the movie about him called Walk the line.

[@macaholic100]

This song is full on gangster!

[@jerrylee2553]

A shot is doing a shot ( injection)

[@bobdelp2023]

ISN'T IT GREAT YOU GUYS??? 😊HERE'S ANOTHER GREAT ONE : ONE PIECE ATTA TIME 😊WANT SOME MORE OF JOHNNY: THE MAN IN BLACK, SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN, THAT OLD RAGGED FLAG, THERE'S 3 MORE BRAD AND LEX 😊

[@haroldsockey6987]

Snort ,smoke or shoot up cocaine, however cash only went to Folsom prison to play for the convicts. He did help David Allen Coe get out of prison. Listen to" Ohio boy" by D.A.C. to find out.

[@christian7951]

The Coke was liquid back in the day modern Coke started in the 70s come from the cartel in Colombia and don't know if you guys watched Blow with Johnny Depp, the movie is based in this pretty much