Terry Scott, Johnny Cash Tribute Artist on February.

Johnny and I share the same birthday month; he was born on February 26^th, 1932; 24 years before my birthdate of February 20^th. We share the same birthday month, love of country music, love of country and love of God.

I have a baritone voice but I don’t sound “exactly” like Cash; I really haven’t heard anyone tribute artist really come close. Cash didn’t have a voice one could easily imitate like Elvis’ for instance. Even Cash in his later years said, “I don’t sing like that anymore”. Cashes voice changed over his long life span as he even recorded up the week prior to his death. My performance is “one man, one guitar and one ‘HECKOFA’ tribute. In narration and song, I try to do a little to make sure that J Cash Lives.

The Charitable Side of the Man in Black: How Johnny Cash Gave Back

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Have you seen the new Johnny Cash Ragged Old Flag Video? Words are here.

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Ragged Old Flag

Johnny Cash

I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench an old man was sitting there
I said, your old courthouse is kinda run down
He said, naw, it'll do for our little town
I said, your old flagpole has leaned a little bit
And that's a ragged old flag you got hanging on it

He said, have a seat, and I sat down
Is this the first time you've been to our little town?
I said, I think it is
He said, I don't like to brag
But we're kinda proud of that ragged old flag

You see, we got a little hole in that flag there when
Washington took it across the Delaware
And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key
Sat watching it writing say can you see
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seams

And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the texas flag, but she waved on though
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg
And the south wind blew hard on that ragged old flag

On Flanders field in World War one
She got a big hole from a Bertha gun
She turned blood red in World War Two
She hung limp and low a time or two
She was in Korea and Vietnam
She went where she was sent by Uncle Sam

She waved from our ships upon the Briny foam
And now they've about quit waving her back here at home
In her own good land here she's been abused
She's been burned, dishonored, denied, and refused

And the government for which she stands
Is scandalized throughout the land
And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin
But she's in good shape for the shape she's in
'Cause she's been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more

So we raise her up every morning
We take her down every night
We don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right
On second thought, I do like to brag
'Cause I'm mighty proud of that ragged old flag

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Ring of Fire played on guitar (without Mexican Horns).

This Johnny Cash song, Ring of Fire was co-written by his wife June Carter Cash and Johnny had a dream where he heard the tune being played with Mexican horns. So he recorded it that way. For my performance, its just me and my guitar. Fortunately, I have a great sounding guitar!

In most of Johnny's performances, he had his guitarist Bob Wootton play the horn part.  

NOTE: Whatever it was, guitarist Bob Wootton inherently knew at an early age that his life's calling was to play music with Johnny Cash. The amazing thing is he achieved that goal, serving for nearly thirty years as Cash's lead guitarist, replacing the late Luther Perkins, who had been killed in a tragic house fire. READ MORE.  

Ter Scott performs The Ragged Old Flag as a Tribute to the Vets in Cloquet MN

Johnny Cash wrote a song called The Ragged Old Flag back in 1975 after returning from a concert tour overseas. He narrates (captured for all time on YouTube) how he cherishes the rights that we still have here in America; even the rights to burn the flag. I emulate him in his words as shown here when I did this tribute to the vets when I performed at the VFW in Cloquet, Minnesota recently.

J Cash Lives, I Guess Things Happen that Way... Ba-doo-ba-doo!!!

When I perform, especially as J Cash Lives, my Johnny Cash Tribute show, I love getting people from the audience to join me on stage. I understand that people come to a performance to have fun and one way for the audience to have fun is having one of them up on stage. I try to find a few ways where someone who isn't usually in the limelight can easily have a part in J Cash Lives in such a way that he or she will have a positive and memorable experience. Here I had someone back me with the Ba-doo-ba-doos! 

Ter Scott sings "I Walk the Line" as J Cash Lives.

I mentioned before how Johnny Cash's voice really had a pretty fair range even though he chose to stay in the keys of E and F. (Usually played E with a capo on the first fret). Here in this performance I borrow a dollar from someone in the crowd and put it in the strings and explain to the audience how Johnny would do so (he used paper too when he didn't have a buck, which was pretty often when he started out) to create the sound of a snare drum because at first he only had the two musicians Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on the stand up bass.

Here though, Johnny modulates in keys with all the verses which at the time was pretty clever in song arranging. Here is my rendition...

By the way, most of the time I stand in performing but this setting was to be an "intimate" setting with me, my guitar and the audience as if I were Johnny in his Henderson home.