Johnny Combs

Fulsom Prison Blues
Sunday Morning Coming Down
One Piece at a Time

When I was twelve, my Dad told me, 'Playing the guitar is fine, but you need a voice to go with it.'"
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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.
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" 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."
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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."
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" I was hooked. I bought all of Johnny's albums, and started learning all of his songs."
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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.
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" So I stuck with Johnny Cash music, and I've been doing it ever since."