"It Ain't Me Babe" Johnny Cash 02/2/11

Hudson,

We listen to music and dance everyday, as you have already read a hundred times. We "jam" out. I try to expose you to all different genres - hip hop, rock and roll, country, techno, ethnic, and so on. We have been listening to a lot of the late great Johnny Cash. You like him so much! So does mommy. I taught you how to hold the guitar like he does, and I will say, "Johnny Cash" and you will hold it like he did. Let's remember you are not even three! Amazing, you are Hudson! He was the nicknamed "The Man in Black" because he always wore dark performance clothing. He was known for his deep, distinctive bass-baritone voice and the boom-chicka-boom freight train sound of his Tennessee Three backing band. I love Johnny Cash because he had empathy for life's underdogs, as I do. He might have been one of the coolest guys ever. I like his themes of sorrow, redemption and moral tribulation, because we all experience these themes throughout life. We are all human. No one man is better than another.

The lyrics in his song "Man in Black" explain why he wore black -

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times.

How about "A boy Named Sue." Great song. A rather funny, but dark song. "And he said: Son, this world is rough and if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be tough..."

We also listen to "Folsum Prison Blues." Cash performed the song at Folsum Prison itself on January 13, 1968. The song was history after that and it become one of his signature songs.

We also listen to "Walk the Line," "Jackson," "Ring of Fire," and other classics.

We were listening to "It Ain't me Babe" written by the immeasurable Bob Dylan in 1964. Dylan and Cash admired one another, and with Dylan's blessing, Cash recorded the song with June Carter in 1965. You were playing the piano, singing the lyrics verbatim, "It ain't me babe, no, no, no, it ain't me babe. It ain't me your looking for, babe." It's unbelievable. You are 2 yrs and 10 mos old. You have a gift Hudson. I love you amore mio, Mamma