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Lee Productions Booked Johnny
Combs Tribute To Johnny Cash At The Bratt Stop And Johnny Tears
'Em Up.
When I was twelve, my Dad
told me, 'Playing the guitar is fine, but you need a voice to go
with it.'"
Those words stick with Johnny Combs today, and as he repeats them, the small
twinkle of that young boy gently graces the corner of his weathered eye.
"Years later, when I was in the Army, I went to a PX, a place for the Military
to do their shopping. I bought an electric guitar."
He remembers, as a young man, playing a lot of the music of the 60s: "Walk
Don't Run" seems to come most easily to his mind. But lingering was the
memory of his cousin Ronald back home playing "I Walk the Line" and
the lead from "Folsom Prison Blues."
"I was hooked. I bought all of Johnny's albums, and started learning all
of his songs."
He also began to notice the uncanny resemblance of his own natural, earthy baritone
and Appalachian drawl to that of the Man In Black himself.
" So I stuck with Johnny Cash music, and I've been doing it ever since."
Click on image to see Johnny Combs bio and sound bite
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