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A Tribute to the Man in Black
An all-star roster of musicians and speakers gathered in Nashville Monday night for a final tribute to the late Johnny Cash.
Through music, tears and laughter, those on stage and in the audience at the historic Ryman Auditorium paid homage to Cash, 71, who died September 12 from complications of diabetes.
Among the performers assembled to send the Man in Black out in style were Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock, John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, George Jones and Kris Kristofferson.
Tim Robbins hosted the event, backed by video tributes from celebs such as Bono, Whoopi Goldberg, Ray Charles, Trent Raznor, Emmylou Harris and Dave Matthews.
More than 2,000 Cash family members, friends and fans, attended the emotional four-hour memorial. Tickets were free, but distributed through a lottery system, with more than 20,000 people vying for seats to the event.
The Fisk Jubilee Singers opened the evening with "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down." Rosanne Cash took the stage next, singing a subdued version of her father's "I Still Miss Someone."
Rosanne Cash said her family's decision to hold the event was what her father would have wanted.
"Dad would have loved it. And we had a private funeral. We had a public funeral for June (Carter Cash, Johnny's wife of 35 years who died just four months before him) and the family felt we couldn't go through another public funeral. It was too soon," the singer said.
"And yet we wanted to honor Dad in a way that people who loved him could participate. That would have been so important to Dad. So that's why we're doing it, to honor him and to give his fans a chance to participate."
Nelson, Jones, Kristofferson and Hank Williams Jr. took the stage to perform an upbeat version of "Cry, Cry, Cry," Cash's first hit, which reached number 14 on the country charts in 1955, as well as the classic "Big River."
Kristofferson was choked up as he prepared to pay tribute to his old friend, blinking back tears as he spoke to reporters.
"It's kind of a bittersweet feeling for me, because I was looking forward to seeing when he won those CMA awards...and I think I better go to the bus," he said. "This is going to be a hard night."
Travis Tritt sang a slow, blues-driven rendition of "I Walk the Line," that Marshall Grant, Cash's original bass player, said was set to the tempo that Cash originally wanted it--much slower than the version that made it to radio.
Sheryl Crow performed an emotional rendition of "Hurt," Cash's cover of a Nine Inch Nails song about drug addiction that won him a MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography and two posthumously awarded Country Music Awards for Single and Video of the Year.
"When he gave his voice to something, he dedicated his heart and his intellect," Crow said of Cash.
Via video recording, U2's Bono toasted Cash with a pint of Guinness, saying, "He was an oak tree in a garden of weeds. He's not in a garden of weeds now. He's in heaven with June where all the saints are."
The tribute concluded with the entire Cash family taking the stage and singing with the audience "We'll Meet Again" from Cash's final, award-winning album, America IV: The Man Comes Around.
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