The rock & roll king interpreted Cash’s song for a 2002 tribute album to the Man in Black
at 87, threw himself into the performance, no doubt remembering his own childhood washing dishes in a Macon, Georgia, bus terminal as he sang about the song’s “little shoeshine boy” with the “dirtiest job in town.” Listen to the way he draws out “street,” turning it into a multisyllabic word. He adds hiccups to “rhythm” too, and brings it all home with one last elongated “blues.” Pleased with himself, he offers an ad-libbed “thank you.
Stuart, who played electric guitar on the track, was awed. “I didn’t know Little Richard [before this project], but I was a fan, and my instinct told me that Little Richard would absolutely get it,” he toldin 2002. “I wanted to give him a song that he could absolutely tear alive, and we made some real rock ‘n’ roll that night.”track list had close ties to Cash. Rosanne Cash was his daughter, of course; Hank Williams Jr. was a friend; and Stuart was his former son-in-law and band member.
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