Hey guys welcome back to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing.
I'm doing a series and the series is called What Makes This Singer Great. Before we get started if
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where I walk you through what it, what it takes to help make you be a great singer okay .
With that said like I said before when I think of a singer and particularly in Johnny
Cash's case, I don't just think of his low baritone vocals and his you know gravelly you know, you know
storytelling, kind of monotone, you know almost wrappy sort of country storytelling. I think of
him as what one of his songs was about The Man in Black you know, he had a very black, dark outlaw. He
was kind of like the ultimate country music outlaw you know that was the image that he put off to us, the
the badass of country music so to speak. I think of his life being kind of a wreck actually you
know. His first marriage failed, he had some tough times with June Carter Cash. I know that he went
in and out of a lot of bad you know, getting in trouble a lot, I know that he just drank a lot
and so you see this guy who went after the world with everything in him to be you know,
it's like again the ultimate country music badass and then comes full circle and dedicates his life
to Jesus Christ and becomes a Christian. I think that's really interesting and why I think that's
interesting, in one of those songs I wanted to do, so let's let's talk about songs here for a second.
You know I think about "Walk The Line" right, there was the prison songs, there was the railroad
songs, there was like I said the song "Man In Black", "Boy Named Sue", remember that one, that was
interesting tune, "Folsom Prison Blues", and I'm gonna do "Ring Of Fire" because that's what I could
get publishing on to to describe to you but I wanted to do the song "Hurt" and yes I know it's
a Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails song and all that stuff but it really exemplifies and personifies his life.
So I really encourage you, in fact I'm going to put that in the description tag so you
guys can go and check out that tune. It is probably one of those most moving, compelling music videos
I've ever seen in my life and yes it's probably some of it because I know his backstory but it's
also because we're all kind of in his back story, we all kind of live through this you know, everyone
goes away in the end and you know what's it left and you can have this empire of dirt and all, you
know all the different you know of imagery that's in this video is amazing. He's sitting at a table
what looks like the Last Supper of Christ and and there's no one there and pictures of his
wife, deceased wife are kind of appearing and all these different things and he's asking you
know life's toughest questions, what is life all about, why are we here, what am I doing, was it just
to become a you know, a country music star or is there more to it. So he's trying to answer some
questions and the imagery shows that in the video so I think that's super awesome so with that said I'm
going to dive into "Ring Of Fire" here and we're just going to catch Johnny early on in his career. Here we go.
Okay a couple things I'm going to finish here. Now I did, I did a vocal demonstration on
on how, how to sing low. I did two different vocal demonstrations one was on the song called
"Low Rider" and one was so on "Ring Of Fire" and I took it down really low so I'll put,
I'll put both of those how to sing low because he was a, a known baritone but
he, but I have another video out called you know a singer is only a singer because they
have the guts to be one so it's, the video is actually titled can anyone learn to sing
and what a great example is Johnny Cash. Does he have a great voice no he could hardly sing
but that guy could tell a story, he can suck you into a story like no tomorrow. You listen to "A
Boy Named Sue" or watch "Hurt", watch "Hurt" and watch his ability just to bring you in to his story so
wearing his heart on his sleeve, wearing his life on his sleeve, really was amazing. So those are kind
of the things that I think of when I think of Johnny Cash, the ultimate badass, the outlaw, the Man in
Black, turning his whole life around, giving his life to Christ in the end or just before the end
and, and making some really gosh amazing assumptions, not assumptions, amazing premonitions
about life, that's not the right word but you get the point. Anyway and just, just a phenomenal
phenomenal artist that has just been an absolute legend, withstood the test of time throughout
country music. So tell me what you think of when you think of Johnny Cash. If I missed some songs
put him in there, if there's a lyric you thought that was funny put it in there and if you guys
have someone that you'd like me to cover and do a reaction to, I'm totally down. Put that in the
comments sections because I'm doing this mostly by request and definitely check out my next video.