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 BK>>  really like. I wasn't much of a Johnny Cash fan, but I had a lot
 BK>>  of respect for him as a person. That started when Richard Nixon
 BK>>  asked Cash to come to the Whitehouse and sing the song, Welfare
 BK>>  Cadillac.

 DD> Bob Seger and The Eagles are hardly country by any cogent
 DD> estimation. Johnny Cash, OTOH, grew up in Dyess, AR and
 DD> picked cotton with his family long before he picked a
 DD> guitar.

 Having been there makes a difference.

 BK>>  Cash refused. He said he knew too many poor people he would not
 BK>>  sign on to trashing them.

 BK>>  Turning down the president of the US on principle like that
 BK>>  deserves respect.

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 DD> Johnny Cash was a helluva guy and a huge bundle of
 DD> contradictions. After all the drug and alcohol problems he
 DD> had during his life it was undiagnosed diabetes that did
 DD> him in. He was the first one I heard make the statement
 DD> that country music is "just white man's blues". I don't
 DD> think that was original with him, however.

 Drug and alcohol can set you up for a lot of things. Diabetes
 may well be a consequence of such abuse. After all, it is a
 failure of balance, and substance abuse can contribute to that.
 Or at least weaken you to the point where something else can
 weaken you more so that something else kills you.

 After all, diabetes doesn't really kill all that often, but sets
 you up for complications.

 Complications kill more than a lot of other things.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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