Just to be a devil’s advocate, his life was pretty full of heavy amphetamine addiction from the late 50s to the 90s.
His recording sounds like a man singing about the hurt he no doubt caused to himself and those he loved during the decades of drug abuse, no matter how shiny that life looked from the outside.
Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt doesn’t deserve the praise it gets. If anyone else recorded it, no one would care. His singing sounds bad.
And to add to it, it’s a song about drug addiction and depression…but the music video is a highlight real of how awesome Cash’s life was.
Just to be a devil’s advocate, his life was pretty full of heavy amphetamine addiction from the late 50s to the 90s. His recording sounds like a man singing about the hurt he no doubt caused to himself and those he loved during the decades of drug abuse, no matter how shiny that life looked from the outside.