![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What changed his opinion, and what ultimately lifted Hurt to an entirely different level, was the video for it. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. “It was this other person inhabiting my most personal song. “I listened to it and it was very strange,” he said. Rubin later said there were times that Johnny “sounded broken,” but they tried to turn that into a positive.ĭespite being “flattered” when told that Cash was covering his song, Trent Reznor had his reservations when they first sent him the track. The open space in the Hurt backing track revealed all the creaks and crags in Cash’s voice. But we really tried to step up for Johnny, even above and beyond the usual call.” ![]() You always try to do your best, no matter what you’re doing. Tench, who played on four of the five Cash/Rubin albums, told JamBands (opens in new tab), “It was just staggering to be in a room with Johnny Cash, playing all those songs. Fast forward to 2002, when Rubin and Cash, recording in the producer’s living room, had settled on a bare-bones arrangement for their Hurt cover – an arpeggiated acoustic guitar, flecked with tasteful touches of organ and piano by the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench. ![]()
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