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"I just like Johnny Cash — not everything Johnny Cash has ever done, no, but I like the idea of Johnny Cash, and ultimately that’s enough."

Yeah, that's what I and a lot of people who came to find Johnny through the back door of rock and backroads of Americana would say Amen to. I admire these concept albums as collective cycles as opposed to individual titles. The song truly as a collective idea.

"with Johnny, it’s always a «children-don’t-do-what-I-have-done» vibe the moment he opens his mouth. That’s just the way God planned it, and there is nothing we can do about it."

As strange as it sounds, I always got this vibe from Ozzy. The difference is that whereas Johnny is the righteous rebel/Man in Black, Oz is the Snowblind Madman/prophetic fool. Both are drawn to crawl into the abyss, survive with their skin intact, and speak cautionary tales of its horrors.

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