johnny cash

[stu87]

anyone know of and cash songs for the mandolin - i know that its not conventional but would be great if i could get my hands on some.

cheers stu 87:mandosmiley:

[swampstomper]

Well.... why don't you work them up by ear? Or, you could buy the music (I am sure there are plenty of official transcriptions of his songs) and work out your parts from the piano / guitar scores. Of course you have to listen closely to see how you think the mando can fit a particular song. It's hard to duplicate Luther Perkin's funky low E-string telecaster licks -- although Niles can surely do something reasonable there!

It also seems that e-mando, particularly 5-string, would be a lot closer to JC's sound than a typical acoustic mando.

Monroe did "Big River" in his own style -- maybe that's what you should do with any song, especially as done by a stylist such as Cash -- it really can't be duplicated so don't try.

HTH

[Ben Milne]

I would love to hear some Cash interpretations similar to what Iron Horse (http://www.ironhorsebluegrass.com/) did on the Back in Bluegrass (ACDC) album I own and cherish.

seriously... someone lay it on me.

[Matt DeBlass]

You can get lyrics and chords over at www.chordie.com, there's even a drop-down on the right that'll let you transpose and show you chord shapes for mandolin. Usually they don't have solos transcribed, and as said above, I think you'll have to work up your own arrangement to make it work.

Still, it could be pretty cool. I may have to come up with one or two to play myself.

[Ivan Kelsall]

Well,you'd rock 'em in their socks if you could come up with a half decent Mando.version of "A Boy Named Sue". Personally,while not a great lover of Johnny Cash as a singer,he's a guy i greatly admired as a man. For me the finest thing he ever did was the film, "Murder in Coweta County",one of my favourite films,
Ivan