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  Oh this garage which is in my wardrobe, is sort of like the one in the Lion Witch and the Wardrobe. We go to another land. It was Nashville before Nashville became cool. I was asked to appear on the Johnny Cash show. There were no long-haired hippie's in the south yet. The two worlds had not collided ..yet. I was the scout that went ahead.
  
  And for a girl from New York, I felt even more foreign and out of place than I did in Europe. I already had chart records in Paris England ,the Netherlands ,Germany.
  
  But I had never even been to ...THE SOUTH! And here I was on the Johnny Cash show with baby June Carter and all the other Carters. With the hair and hair spray. They were still living in the day of the doos. The guys had Elvis hair. Hair symbolized so much, hence the musical,HAIR. Baby June and the rest of the Carter's sniffed me(no hairspray).
  
  And wondered what I was doing there. And even more curious was the fact that I didn't have that sexy girl flow, had my underwear on but under developed social graces.
  
  Most people thought ,I 'd hear time after time that I was aloof. My introversion and quietness (inspired by fear ) misinterpreted for snobby. It was not a great scenario for making friends. Peter had to make friends for me~ but I don't think he did very well in the 60s SOUTH . He had long hair. One thing was for sure Johnny Cash was "the man". No one told him what to do.
  
  When he first looked at me I sensed he was looking at a different species or a bug. Then I detected a slight "oh it's a she"!baby June did not miss that and kept her eye on the ball.
  
  Then, I was a bit of a pitch freak. He seemed to sing in several keys at once. He modulated during our take without telling me he was going to do that. The whole band just followed right along. I used a capo.
  
  Now they have these clever little capos that role up so you could instantly modulate without taking off the capo and putting it back on a Fret up, which is near impossible in the middle of a song and I didn't play enough guitar to change the key by changing the cords!
  
  I came off from that dress rehearsal exasperated and began venting as I walked toward my dressing room still wearing the MICROPHONE, still on, so that the world of the Johnny Cash show could hear me, including Johnny Cash himself. A stage manager came running in with Peter making the universal shush sign. I was horrified and embarrassed. I would need to apologize when I saw him for the next run through.
  
  But as we took our places he just looked at me and smiled, he knew. He knew that I didn't yet know his 'style.'
  
  That left such an impression on me, he had such a strong beingness.
  
  He stopped looking at me as if I were a bug and with the knowingness that I was just a frightened little girl, with a really loud voice .I later recorded a song which I had written previously as a song about myself ,in tribute to Johnny Cash and the tremendous impression he left on me.
  
  Beau Jarred took the footage from the Johnny cash TV show ,extracting Johnny Cash's comments as they were spoken on that show. These are included in the recording.
  
  He lived for love , cried for love , died for love and lived.
  
  I now live in Nashville but I'm never home! ... more
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• Very Rare CD single: Working Legend

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  Tribute to Johnny Cash.
  * Working Legend
  Two bonus songs:
  Baby Guitar
  Silver Threads and Golden Needles
  
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