Somewhere out there is a recording ofBilly Bob ThorntonandJohnny Cashplaying Cashs 1958 song I Still Miss Someone together.
What was that like?
So I just stayed in my room all night long.
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But he was very kind to me.
He continued, Cash said to me, Whats your idea, son?
This was at a point where Johnny was in a little more ill health.
And he said, Yeah, that sounds good to me.
And then he said, I might even have an idea or two myself.
After all I wrote the fucking thing.
And I was like, Yes, sir, sorry.'
Thornton added that Cash wrote a story about that day on four pieces of notebook paper.
It was partly truth, partly fiction, the actor explained.
And I said, John, why did you write three autographs on that paper?
I went to LA to play music, accidentally got into acting, he said.
Im still not sure how it happened.
I loved both of them.
Its all one vision, all out of the same brain.
I couldnt choose one over the other.
Id like to do both, as long as theyll let me.
I was playing in bands since the time I was a kid, he said.
If you want to talk about paying my dues, its all I ever did.
I wasnt in theater.
I was only in music.
