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“When You Were On The Pills, Did You Think You Were A Better Singer Because Of Them?”

October 28, 2011 in Urban Studies, Videos | Permalink

Harry Reasoner profiles Johnny Cash on 60 Minutes, 1982.

“If You Can Keep Your Head”

September 18, 2011 in Film, Urban Studies, Videos | Permalink

As Hollywood’s studio system collapsed in the 1960s and the anti-hero indie Easy Rider showed a new path to riches, mavericks like Dennis Hooper could do anything they wanted. That freedom, of course, wasn’t the best thing for Hopper’s health or sanity. One of the least self-lacerating things he did during that era was to read a Rudyard Kipling poem for Johnny Cash in 1970.