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Ring of Fire
I love it when the threads of my cultural interest braid into a single wonderful item, like this version of June Carter Cash’s “Ring of Fire” with Earl Scruggs and Billy Bob Thornton. The Sling Blade edit’s sort of fun, too. The song is from Earl Scruggs and Friends.
Update: I was reminded of this cut when I ran across my Oxford American Southern Music Sampler #5 (2001), which may be the best one they ever did. In addition to this cut, it also has Bob Dylan and Ralph Stanley singing “The Lonesome River,” Kevin Gordon doing “Down to the Well” with Lucinda Williams, Ann Peebles doing a pre-Tina version of “I Can’t Stand the Rain,” (here, too) and Jim White doing a really spooky thing called “The Wound that Never Heals.”
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2 Comments
1. MSW replies at 9th July 2008, 6:57 pm :
The video is really nicely bizarre. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Sling Blade, or if I did, it must have been so long ago that I don’t remember it. But I’ve always really liked that particular arrangement of Ring of Fire. And I have to agree that the 2001 Oxford American disc is probably the best one we ever got. That one, and maybe the first one we got (the one with June Carter Cash doing “The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore”) were my favorites of the lot.
2. sherry replies at 10th July 2008, 9:30 am :
I have seen Sling Blade but I remember disliking it, not for the performance, but because I thought the ending was morally equivocal. On the other hand, I’d say it didn’t make that big an impression. Like Forrest Gump, it seemed all about the gimmick.
There’s a Sling Blade vs. Forrest Gump video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv0AF9IrO4U
And then there’s Brokeback Gump:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcQFs-ktu8Y&feature=related
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