Post by Garland on Mar 15, 2023 8:12:25 GMT -5
This one is about a photo of Johnny Cash. The author, as I've said many times, is great! The amount of time he has to spend writing and researching flabbergasts me...
an excerpt: The ad also became a rallying cry for a lot of country music’s older artists that just like Johnny Cash, had been taken off the radio, and generally forgotten by the country industry. Willie Nelson loved the ad and hung it up in his bus. “John speaks for all of us. Everyone who comes in has to see it,” he said.
George Jones loved the ad too and made one of his own to promote his song “Wild Irish Rose” showing George surrounded by basketballs, footballs and baseballs and the caption, “If radio had any, they’d play this record.” “All of us older artists feel that way. Radio gives us one of the biggest insults there is when they don’t play our music. If no one is going to stick up for us, we’ll have to do it ourselves,” said Jones.
George Jones loved the ad too and made one of his own to promote his song “Wild Irish Rose” showing George surrounded by basketballs, footballs and baseballs and the caption, “If radio had any, they’d play this record.” “All of us older artists feel that way. Radio gives us one of the biggest insults there is when they don’t play our music. If no one is going to stick up for us, we’ll have to do it ourselves,” said Jones.
