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                                      Hurt
                                        
> Cash's producer, Rick Rubin, sent a copy of the video to NIN (Nine Inch
> Nails)'s Trent Reznor. “We were in the studio, getting ready to work—and I
> popped it in,” Reznor says. “By the end I was really on the verge of tears.
> I'm working with Zach de la Rocha, and I told him to take a look. At the
> end of it, there was just dead silence. There was, like, this moist
> clearing of our throats and then, ‘Uh, OK, let's get some coffee.’”
> 

“Johnny Cash Makes 'Em Hurt [1]”

I came close to tears myself watching the video [2]; it's that powerful. And
he just doesn't cover NIN “Hurt,” he owns it.

I then played the original version done by Trent Reznor [3] and both Spring
[4] and I agree: Johnny Cash owns this song; Trent just doesn't come close.

[1] http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=17603
[2] http://www.markromanek.com/video/14_video.html
[3] http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/trent/trent.htm
[4] http://www.springdew.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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