Frusciante Friday: Johnny Cash?
{Feb 26}
2000s frusciante friday, john frusciante, johnny cash, neil young No Comments
Let’s take a break from the Beatles countdown and do a Frusciante Friday post. It’s going to be hard for me to muster up the strength to do it as I’m still a little depressed from him leaving the Chili Peppers. Yeah, Klinghoffer’s good, but RHCP has always been at their best with Frusciante. Damn, I’m going to get more depressed typing this. What to do, what to do, what to do? Wait, I could do a Frusciante song done with someone else to get my mind off of it. Yep, that sounds like another genius idea, Doug. Way to go! By the way, I am talking to myself in my own blog post here and I find nothing wrong with it. It’s the effect listening to Kid A at five in the morning will have on you. Go ahead and try it – it’s great! But back to the point, we’re going to talk about Frusciante’s work with a legendary artist who had an album just come out posthumously: Johnny Cash!
The beginning of Frusciante working with Cash actually starts with Cash’s American albums with Rick Rubin. An already legendary producer, Rubin began to branch out of the rap & hard rock genres he was famous for in the mid-90s. What he got was Johnny Cash looking to go a new direction in his career and the two helped each other out immensely. Rubin got his smaller record label a lot of notice and Johnny Cash got another fresh breath for a career that was winding down. From 1994 on to his death, Cash would record with Rubin ultimately releasing six albums with him that churned out immense classics like “The Man Comes Around” and his legendary cover of “Hurt.” That’s saying a lot for Rubin too as Cash had a long history of despising his producers, most notably Jack Clement who tried to add a barbershop quartet to some of his songs. Knowing Rubin’s lengthy history with the Chili Peppers, it’s no surprise that Rubin enlisted John Frusciante’s help in collaborating with Cash to re-work some famous songs for his new albums.
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