Johnny Cash - Man in Black | Metal / Rock Fans First Time Reaction with Prime47 Bardstown Barrel Pck

[@joannakirkpatrickmorgan6681]

Hey y’all, Joanna here. This is the first and probably last time you’ll see me comment, but guess I felt compelled to set the record straight. Keith already told you the story of why I requested this song. I did knowing Keith would hate it, but I did it anyway for my dad. Johnny gave our family a gift- he was there in the last days of my dad’s life. My dad was a pastor, a friend of Bill W.’s for 61 years and someone who did prison ministry in the 60’s and 70’s. I think he identified with Johnny. I was blessed to be at his side in his last days, and Johnny’s music seemed to bring him comfort. And for the record…I was able to be there because of Keith. My dad loved Keith, and he watched this channel even though he hadn’t had a drop of alcohol since 1963. Part of why he loved Keith is why I do too…he tells you his truth. The thing is it’s his truth. He’s not telling anyone else how to feel. Some of you decided not to watch anymore which is totally your right. He will probably be annoyed I’m even posting this, but I also tell my truth. So y’all can be mad, and disagree, and say what you want but I’m not letting the idea stand that Keith is somehow disrespectful, or unkind or not a wonderful human being. Furthermore had Johnny heard his opinion I doubt he’d have cared either. Hope you all have a good weekend 😋

[@crbr1432000]

Thank you for this Joanna. Johnny Cash was just speaking his mind about us all being kind to one another. (Or at least try to be kinder) I have huge respect for you and your comment here. Everyone has their own opinion and don't ever let others dictate yours is what I have always believed.

[@laurashelton5942]

I respect that Keith and Dustin say what they think. I appreciate that they encourage others to do the same. I like how when provided more background and explanations sometimes their opinion changes. They are always open minded which is why I would never stop watching. Thank you for the suggestion Joanna, I'm so sorry for your loss. I lost my dad almost 17 years ago. I want even 30 years old. The pain gets less sharp but if he was as great as my dad, there will always be missing piece. Your family is in my prayers.

[@Gutslinger]

There's no "his", "your", or "their" truth. Truth isn't subjective like that. There's only _the_ truth. What you're describing is perspective/opinions. Opinions are subjective. Truth isn't. That being said, I wasn't bothered by his honest opinion of this song. But I certainly wasn't expecting it. Lol

[@donnawilliams4148]

Hi Joanna, I'm late to the party here but I wanted to tell you I'm so sorry for your loss. I also wanted to note that 2 days before this video dropped, I happened to watch the movie about Johnny Cash. In the movie there was a scene where his first band was trying to find what they were going to wear. The only things they all had in their closet that matched was black shirts. And that was how he began wearing the black. Knowing that and watching this video made this song feel a little disingenuous to me. But over the years I've heard Johnny say that people always ask him why he wears black. My guess is this story sounded better to Johnny than the actual reason. lol. I wasn't offended by Keith's comments because they kind of rang true to me. And I understand that now Johnny's voice will always bring memories for you. Don't worry, most of us like Keith BECAUSE he says exactly what he thinks. That and the fact that he and Dustin are Like the cool kids back in school. You couldn't resist watching their antics. May God bless you all.

[@MrAWL94]

I was getting ready to lambast Keith on his opinion of this song (because it is one of my favorites) and I saw your comment and it changed my opinion. Your comment reminded me that everybody is entitled to their own opinion.

[@icspots2351]

Rainbow back then was just colorful.

[@laurashelton5942]

Johnny Cash had an appreciation for all people. This wasnt a the world sucks song. It was a lets be nicer to everyone. Lets show some respect to others song. Johnny Cash was a difficult but great man. He deserves respect. He was right about injustices in the world.

[@cathybrookeburt2616]

As a veteran your attitude is wild to me, Keith. This was during the Vietnam war & our soldiers were drafted & many went unwillingly, only to be spat on by the people who should have been supporting them when they returned. My brother served 3 tours & it happened to him every time he came home. These young men were either dying by the thousands or were being treated like they were monsters & murderers. Artists display their hearts through their music.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

I call them as I see them. And you do not get to define "veteran attitudes," especially in any attempt to bend any of us to your will. Futher, speaking for me personally, an entire class of society aside, you'll find the same result as anyone before you who has attempted to coerce my thinking. It will not go well. - Keith

[@jamesoliver2196]

You can't think of the song in today's world it was fitting to the times it was written in

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

Another commenter noted this could actually have been the genesis of emo. I really have no idea, but, it sure sounds plausible. - Keith

[@ranger-1214]

Johnny had a weekly TV show in Nashville. The lead-up to this is missing from the beginning of this clip; he was out on the campus of the local Vanderbilt University and talking with random students. He invited many of them to the next week’s show, so that was the majority of the crowd. This was 1971, Vietnam, 100 young men a week killed, etc. Almost all asked why he always wore black so he wrote the song to answer that question.

[@liloljen1]

Rainbows back then symbolized “everything was Okay after the storm”

[@757optim]

Context is germane here. It was the Vietnam era and the people Johnny mentioned talking with, and which conversations inspired the song, were students at Vanderbilt. I'm a Vietnam vet, Regular Army (iykyk) and never protested and thought that the guys who went to Canada should have been worth what a GI was worth at the time ($10K) Carter pardoned them - I appreciate the sentiment of the song. If I had to agree with the politics of the music artists of my time, I'd be ship outta luck.

[@marycarricaburu3683]

When this song was written the rainbow did not mean what it does today. It meant happiness and God's promise

[@cliffgraham9892]

The story I got from Johnny's sister Margaret almost 45 years ago is thus: WHen he was a boy JR loved the serial westerns, particularly Lash Larue and Zorro, which is why he started wearing black on stage. Some reporter asked him if the reason he was wearing was because the world was so dark. Johnny then adopted the policy.

[@michaelbarefoot188]

this song is about having empathy for others. he was a man who faced many demons and knew that he could have easily wound up where a lot of those he mentioned ended up. in other words for the grace of god there go i. if you can't understand that sentiment than you are not the person i thought you were. he is not a martyr he is hoping by wearing black that it reminds you of how blessed you are and to treat everyone with respect and civility. there is not enough of that sentiment around in the last 10 years. It is no different. than the different color bracelets they wear or the pink bows some people wear all year.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

"I wear black because everything and everyone sucks." Yeah, I understand it perfectly. Break out the black eyeliner and fire up the Type O Negative. - Keith

[@itchyandred4131]

You have it all wrong

[@michaelbarefoot188]

@@itchyandred4131 do tell. please inform of my errors. lol

[@magic8ball1982]

The real reason he's known for black? When he first got started, he wanted matching outfits for himself and his backup band and it was the only color all of them had their closets.

[@d.t.r.8036]

He didn't have to keep it up after that point though. We can all start doing something for one reason and then reach a point where we consciously choose to continue doing it but for a different reason/with a different intent than what prompted us to do it the first time. Whether that sort of shift in the "why" happened here or not, I really don't know. What I do know is that Johnny obviously wanted us to think of the folks mentioned in his song every time we see him because, in this song, he made that explicit connection of him wearing black with being a reminder of the folks that society tends to overlook/forget about. To use more modern vernacular: he made a choice to use his platform to bring attention to injustices experienced by lots of folks who didn't have a platform and reach like he did.

[@kailyns8159]

Coming at this as someone who prefers wearing black but is very much not emo or goth… I wear black because I feel comfortable in the color. Half my wardrobe is black and the other half is blue. Honestly, I’ve never understood why black is associated with sadness. In some countries, yellow is the mourning color, or white. I don’t understand those choices either. When my cousin died, she asked everyone to wear purple to her funeral. We did. It didn’t feel weird or wrong. Music has a way of reaching the unreachable. When my composer uncle was dying of pancreatic and liver cancer in 2022, we played his piano compositions for him to de-stress him. He couldn’t talk anymore, was heavily drugged, really wouldn’t engage with anyone. Until we put on his music. He’d cry during his emotional pieces, move his foot as if he was pressing down the pedals, move his hands as if he was playing the keys… it was honestly beautiful and peaceful to have one final concert. Even if he wasn’t truly playing, he believed he was and it gave him such joy. Something similar happened when my great-grandmother passed as well. She was in hospice about 5 days and we played Lawrence Welk for her the whole time. He was her favorite. She never woke up to say goodbye but we never saw her agitated either. Earlier this year, I had major surgery that went great. But in recovery I had a dangerous reaction to my meds that brought rapid response to my room. My heart rate started spiking, my body shaking and tensing, my eyes clamped shut, teeth started chattering, started crying, couldn’t feel my tongue and my gums felt tingly. I got super groggy as well, like my brain was shutting down my consciousness to keep me from panicking. It was so weird. Apparently one of the five rapid response nurses suggested they play music to try to calm me down so my heart rate would slow and I said “Judy Garland playlist.” 30 seconds into one song and I was able to stop shaking. Two songs later, I was able to open my eyes and my heart rate was almost back to normal. After 3 songs, you’d never have known I had ever needed rapid response at all. I was absolutely zen. I’ll never understand it, but I just zone into zen whenever I hear Judy sing. She’s calmed me down since I was four.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

I have always found music to be incredibly powerful, and in various ways. I've seen plenty of evidence of that power over my lifetime. - Keith

[@pmbramucci1056]

Still very relevant today! We need Johnny's successor to carry this song on, whoever they may be.

[@dlamrock160]

Cash is one of my favorite OG country performers. But I agree with you 100%. This song always came off a little "cringe" to me. He always wore black. Not for the reasons in this song, but because it became his " thing" later on in his career. He originally started wearing black because he wxnt to match his backup band and wanted to stand out from the brightly colored and sequined suits worn by many country artist at the time. I guess he didn't want to be seen as a " rhinestone cowboy ".lol

[@firefighterchick]

I'm sure you know you're gonna catch shit from people on this Keith.😂 I respect your opinion but I don't think he wore black because he had a gut. From everything I've ever seen or read of Johnny Cash he genuinely loved people and wanted to be a voice for those who didn't have any. He also spoke of the underdog. Please consider reacting to his song Ira Hayes. It's about one of the Marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.

[@michaelbarefoot188]

johnny became a devout christian and followed gods 2 greatest commandments. jesus told the disciples that the 2 greatest commandments were to love god above all others and to love thy neighbor as i have loved you. he always reminded people to look out for those less fortunate than themselves and treat all people with dignity. I know that is a strange code these days to some people.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

Nah. More people than most realize actually view the world that way. It just doesn't attract views, likes, shares, etc.. in the way that negativity does. The reason for that ... hell ... maybe I should break this down on channel at some point, but fear sells. Fear sells better than any other human emotion. Sells ads. Sells votes. Sells anything. Thus the constant barrage of negativity in our world. - Keith

[@firefighterchick]

@@BourbonCountryReacts agree 💯 Keith. The news doesn't show anything positive. Most of the world isn't doom and gloom it's the negative that sells.😊

[@michaelbarefoot188]

@@BourbonCountryReacts that is why do not fear appears in the bible 365 times. fear drives people to act and think in ways that they would never even contemplate in a normal state of mind. that is why politicians have become the biggest purveyor of it.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

Politicians have capitalized on it throughout human history, but fear as a sales tactic is pervasive in our society. It's the digital world that has brought the deluge of it upon us. And it is corrosive. - Keith

[@GaOutlawVinyl]

You’ve got to remember that at the time this came out there were no or at least very few emo’s. For the time it came out he was right. Today we don’t need a man in black. Today we need a man in white. Today everyone thinks it’s cool to be dark, to be the bad guy. That’s why the people in country who were considered outlaws didn’t like the term.

[@susannorton1397]

I just watched your reaction to Dixie "Chicks" Not Ready to Make Nice. Google the meaning of this song. There is no interpretation. You missed it by a mile. Go back and listen, and you'll get it and enjoy the song much, much more. Peace.

[@rebecca_is_book-hooked]

Well, we certainly know that Keith doesn’t pander to a crowd. Can’t knock you for that!

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

No. I definitely don't. We definitely don't. I think we've stated multiple times that we do the channel because it's fun. We're both pretty successful in life, and don't care about views/money from it. Not caring about that provides us the freedom to truly say what we think. It's a freedom I exercise often. And I rather enjoy it. - Keith

[@rebecca_is_book-hooked]

@@BourbonCountryReacts Your core audience realizes that and appreciates it. Also, if both of you had the same exact thoughts and opinions as me, there would be no value in watching your videos.

[@AuntCoke]

If you dont like this one, dont listen to "What Is Truth". Lol. I tend to the liberal side myself and you remind me of my brother who 1000% does not - and that is ok, we all have our own opinions and we can still bond over the music we love and all the values and other things we have in common even if we disagree about politics. I love the song myself - the empathy of Johnny especially in this song speaks to me.

[@MrNiccholas]

@@AuntCoke it seems like so many Americans have forgotten how to agree to disagree. I appreciated that Keith and Dustin work hard to keep politics off the channel, from what I've noticed it tends to bring out the worst in people!!!

[@AuntCoke]

@@MrNiccholas it absolutely does. Unfortunately.

[@leannlaplante3643]

Thank you to anyone who helps those to read. It is comforting to read the words that Jesus said. Thank you to all who served in Vietnam. My family still mourns the ones we lost and those whose bodies never made it home.

[@minilockwood24]

Y’all should do “One Piece at a Time” the next time you do a Johnny Cash reaction!

[@LyshiaHodges]

This was back when Vietnam was going on dummies rainbow was more hippie then

[@lindanicholson950]

It was sort of a protest hippie vibe. I like the tune and the recognizable Johnny Cash guitar sound. The message was never something I was into.

[@lisamccartney7573]

My condolences to you and Joanna.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

Thank you. - Keith

[@barbarahighlander8840]

Great song. Tell Joanna hello.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

I will tell her you said hi, Barbara. - Keith

[@TheLenyon]

My first unsubscribe over a preference for callousness

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

Bye!

[@dlamrock160]

😆​@@BourbonCountryReacts

[@notme411]

Enjoy!!

[@amandahandlin1405]

The part in the song where Johnny says you'll never catch me wear a suit of white isn't that a remark at Elvis presley. Can someone tell me if this is true?

[@howrued1500]

I too have always wondered about this!

[@bertramfien1095]

You don't even understand that time. Sad. He was singing about Vietnam War, and all the other events in my youth.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

I understand just fine. And today's black-wearing, mascara-dripping emo youth are signing about current wars and other events of their youth. It's not a mindset I'm going to entertain. - Keith

[@PK-VLOGG]

How do we get you guys to react to REN- Tale of Jenny and Screech trilogy

[@MrNiccholas]

While I'd LOVE to see that, I really don't think it would be considered country, so I don't think it's something they would react to on channel. Plus they may have already listened to it, I told them about it a while back and said it wasn't country so they were safe to listen to it off channel and I think it was Keith that replied he would check it out. I would really love to see Keith's reaction to Ren's guitar on the Tails, especially Violets!!!

[@Mrskorba]

People are really upset because you don’t just love this song? This is why we can’t have a nice country anymore! People aren’t even allowed to have a difference of opinions without having something to say about it and agreeing to disagree. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I liked your reaction to it. I’ve never heard the song the whole way through either and I’m a CM fan. It’s not one of my favorite songs of his. I’m so sorry Joanna for the loss of your father 🤍

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

It happens any time we (usually me) say anything negative about a song. People sure are fragile these days. - Keith

[@andrewdepue5406]

Check out johnny cash one piece at a time

[@rebecca_is_book-hooked]

Great one!

[@TXplowgirl]

Damn Keith, is all I'm gonna say.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

I'm sure I'll get more than that on this one. - Keith

[@MrNiccholas]

Definitely not my favorite Cash song, but it's iconic for sure. It's interesting listening to it in today's day and age knowing how Emo and Sad depressing music took over a large part of music. I wonder what I would think about it if I'd have listened to it when it first came out? Would it have hit different without the backdrop of all the music that has come after it?

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

"Regardless of setting, all art is for the time in which it was created." - Some university art professor. Probably. - Keith

[@MrNiccholas]

@@BourbonCountryReacts lol!

[@michaelbarefoot188]

i am 63 years old and grew up listening to country music and most of it was about being heartbroken for whatever bad event had happened in you life. divorce, cheating spouse, some one or your dog or horse dying. ti was tied very close to the same sentiment blues were or told of the hardships face by poor people sense its roots come from the poverty of the appalachain mountains. why do you think country was not very popular in the 50's-90's. there were few radio stations that played country music.

[@tonfa2]

There might be a case to be made that Johnny created emo (right beside the one about him being the father of gangsta rap), but the black is even simpler. When he got started with his first band it's the only thing they all had that matched.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

I would entertain that argument. - Keith

[@denisec7999]

Here’s a fun song … Joe Diffie - pro me up beside the jukebox!

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Nice reaction.

[@bobfarris2245]

What is this bourbon? All I got was a Bardstown Barrel Pick.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

It's Bardstown. A barrel pick by Prime 47.

[@bobfarris2245]

@@BourbonCountryReacts Thanks, I guess I don't have a chance to add it to my wall in Houston.

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

Probably only a 2 hour flight and maybe a 40 minute Uber ride. If they still have any. I've been telling everyone I know to go get a bottle. - Keith PS: Not that I would *ever* go to that level of effort/expense for a bottle.

[@Kat._Blue]

I love Johnny Cash but not particularly this song! My condolences to you and Joanna, Music can be so powerful and calming. When my grandma passed we played some old German music for her that she and her choir used to sing. It helped keeping her calm. Thank you for your reaction! I’m so glad you are back!

[@BourbonCountryReacts]

The effect on Joanna's dad was apparently stark. - Keith

[@kathyw2355]

Oh please 😕

[@notme411]

This was back in the 40’s and 50’s

[@MrDavecdva]

1971...I imagine the 100 young men a week was a reference to Vietnam.

[@bfsgman]

You're only off about 20 to 30 years, lol!

[@AmberMeaney-yy2lm]

You all need to react to ant no love in Oklahoma by Luke combs

[@shawnpilgrim2355]

I love Johnny, but not SJW Johnny.

[@beestonsteve]

Damn you guys are cynical!