Hive open Mic week 153 - Hurt (Johnny Cash Version) - Cover

Cheers @steevc

Yeah, lol I am reasonable at finger picking, but I am so out of practive. And I honestly tried recording that song three times singing while playing and it sounded aweful, like really bad with my singing way out of tune.

So, to get over this I basically watched the video I'd made of me just playing the melody and sung over that into a directional microphone. Then Used DaVinci Resolve video editor to synch the lyrical audio to the instrimental. A bit long winded but it did the trick.

I guess in case there are any serious curators watching I should show you my DaVinci Resolve set up screenshot.

P.s. As far as I know you're not a curator, but it suddenly occured to me that I maybe should have added this pic to the post, and might do now. Lol, but we've met and I'm guesssing you can tell that is me singing just from the accent.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my open mic entry 🙂

Ahhhh cheers m8.
It is an emotional rollercoaster of a tune for sure.

Glad you enjoyed it. I might even try entering again next week... see if I can play and sing at the same time next time around 😉

Indeed, the time we need our friends around is when we are in hurt.

I agree jesus-son. Sometimes sad things happen, berievment etc and at those times it is important to come together, family and friends... and even just anyone who wants to make an act of compassion that day.

I remember going to a funeral once, and a homeless guy walked in and just started crying. No one said anything, until the person conducting the ceremony approached him and asked what he was doing, it turns out he was best friends with this man in school.

Myself and two other people offered him a seat beside us. Things like these make me realise we can't judge a book by its cover, and in fact I think that we shouldn't judge overall as a species as much as we do.

Your playing is really good and editing your voice over the track worked well here.

Thanks celticheartbeat

I spent many hours last night making sure it was as close to synched up to the relevant chords as possible. I wish I could just sing and play at the same time easier to be honest.

There are only one or two I can sing and play together, but I just wanted to cover Hurt this week. It was a cathartic need to sing that song, but share it somehow.

I might try something else next week that I feel more confident singing while playing. But I'll have to buy a little microphone to strap to my guitar I think as trying to do it through the bluetooth earphone mic has mixed (replace the word mixed with shit) results 😂

I love both the NIN version and the Johnny Cash cover. The chorus in the NIN version is almost more powerful, and it makes me think he was 100% writing about drug addiction as the way Trent Raznor goes from almost a whispering pain style of singing in the verse, to this outpouring of uncontrolled emotional high in the chorus. I was listening to the NIN version when I wrote this part of a short story I know you read:

The water flowed in dark rivulets as he lathered shampoo into his scalp. It felt good. He could feel it all drain away.

Not just the dirt but the last six years of wandering from town to town, chasing new places to play the drug addict's game of manipulation and intimidation. Washing away that world of threats and debts, living for the quiet moments of death, those quiet moments where the needle or the pipe wiped it all away.

No more birth, growing up, making a marker of yourself based on expectations; parents, peers, teachers and friends. No memory of failing. No memory of falling in love, a part of you dying each time that feeling disappeared, and above all a window wiper to fear. That's what it was to be a drug addict, running from that fear, that truth, which every human must eventually face. There is nothing more to this life than a brief fleeting lucid dream.

He washed it all away.

In the story The Dinner Party (Cosmic Reverberations) which I remeber we had a dep conversation about some of the isssues raised in that story in the comments.

But having said all that, I think Johnny cash borrowed Hurt and covered it in an entirely different way. He did the almost impossible - same lyrics bar one or two - but the meaning is completely different. In the Johnny Cash video, in the way he presents it, sings it... beyond all it is a mourning song.

Whether mourning a death of a loved one, or a loss of a partner through a break up of a realtionship/marrage.

I also, prefer the Johnny Cash version but it makes me cry so often so I have to modertate how much I listen to it 😂

That's what gr8 music should do though, inspire such emotional reactions. You said it yourself:

it's the emotion in his voice.

Those are the masterpieces when that happens IMO.

Thanks for the hugs 🤗

Thank you karlex77

It is really late in my part of the world, but I shall go and see if you have an entry to Hive Open Mic yourself tomorrow and take a listen.

If you don't, I'll just say thanks and the gift of a smile and something from nature 🙂 🌿

Hi @musicandreview

we appreciate you opening up to tell us about the loss of your dear friend, sometimes we need to drain through words.

It comes natural to me as I'm a proffessional writer outside of hive. I've never been one to keep things to myself, but in regards to the accompynying text with this post and entry I felt like I needed to explain the context of choosing such a sad/depresssing song for what was quite a posative prompt lol

But, as I said I beleieve the world would be a better place if we all stand together with each other both in joy and in sadness. Loss is loss, and as we get older (I'm over 40) you find yourself having to deal with it more and more. I try my best to celebrate the life of a friend who passes away, but the feelings expressed in the song Hurt show more how loosing that friend makes you feel personally. This is just life though, without death their would be no life, without darkeness no light.

Thank you for your kindness👍🙂

The lyrics are simply beautiful, and I think Johnny Cash with his voice/way of interpreting this song gave it a much more nostalgic and powerful touch.

Yeah, I agree I said it in other comments in this post's thread but I firmly believe the meaning in Johnny cash version is different to the Trent Rezenor version. In the Johnny Cash video, in the way he presents it, sings it, beyond all else it is a mourning song.

Which is strange because as you said:

wife died 1-2 months after the original video was shot

And he passed away himself pretty soon afterwards. It is almost like he saw it coming, future echoes or synchronicity or whatever you want to call it. But there was something going on.

Anyway, It is a mourning song for me. It always reminds me of my long dead friend who succumbed to alcoholism and died due to that addiction, and it is just beautiful in how purely it expresses sorrow.

Thanks for your comment @therealflaws
👍🙂

Thank you for running this open mic weekly 😀👍

Thank you so much for the compliment Nancy 🙂🌿