The Hometown of Johnny Cash - From Arkansas To Memphis / Where He Lived / First Performance & MORE
A visit to Dyess Arkansas to see the hometown of Johnny Cash . Followed by crossing into Tennessee and eating Memphis BBQ before finding his former homes and where he performed .
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welcome everyone Adam through here and
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Cody hold it's a little warmer it's a
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little warmer here I gotta give it that
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little rainy this warmer some have
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created a nickname Kolby coldy holdy
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because you have been a little on the
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chilly side I have lost track of what
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day it is from Florida I'm not used to
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impact right although state by state
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we're heading southbound we're going to
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be covering two different areas the
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first into Arkansas the stomping grounds
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of the man in black man Johnny Cash
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Johnny Cash right I'm excited I'm pretty
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excited too I'm being I've been like
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we've been listening to some of his
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tunes and albums in the car as we cruise
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so it should be fun inviting you to join
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me Cody
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shall you
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here in the state Welcome Center is a
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little display there he is up top a
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little kitty cat a legend in his own
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time the man his world and his music and
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a cardboard stand up holding his guitar
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right there there he is in his younger
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years and a little bit later in life off
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in the distance you can see the water
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tower for dice gonna make this turn at
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the intersection of Johnny Cash Memorial
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Highway also the boyhood home of Jean
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Williams back at the Welcome Center I
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asked the pronunciation it was told dice
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originally I had guessed
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daya's but dice is what they stated
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here's the water tower
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the downtown area it's not us town
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square it's a town circle very very much
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Americana
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that was a 4-wheeler the theater still
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stands very retro
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Town Hall very much like a mansion no
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one outside is very peaceful very quiet
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there was another building in the spot
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up until 1944 when fire destroyed it the
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colony established in 1934 by President
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Roosevelt slab of the former commissary
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that went by the wayside in 57 but there
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is a little storefront over there on the
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corner adjacent to the city hall in fact
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a rusted-out pepsi sign up there still
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stands
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a local pulled up and gave us maybe some
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directions wrote them down for us I was
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standing here admiring this dr. pepper
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okay
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incoming she said it says volunteer fire
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department yep oh yeah I see it now
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takes you a minute what do you think it
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says underneath that's what I was trying
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to figure what was painted over I think
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it says recycling recycling recycling
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plant that's what they put over top of
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it that's why these trucks are our old
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recycling but I think that on the top is
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an old siren I think you're right
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yeah and walk the line the film about
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his life this building was used in one
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of the early scenes yeah right up inside
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that door to your left is where he was a
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kid
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and his brother ran here brother was
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working brother ended up getting cut up
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while he went out fishing
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it's where his accident happened right
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inside this door camera facing outward
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into the town square
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you can notice the top are these pillars
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were the V was in the shabbat and often
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that far distance is that white plaque
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my guys cruising hanging out in order to
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get to his childhood home I get to take
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this dirt just on the outskirts of town
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a couple miles give or take a little bit
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of a ways an unpaved section a few years
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ago they restored it to its former glory
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where he moved down in 1935 at the age
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of three till about 18 or 19 1953 I
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believe is when he left
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currently it was a fence around an annus
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locked
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today they are not giving tours but
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still we're stopping by he sold over 90
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million albums during his lifelong
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career it's pretty interesting one of
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the most iconic musicians of our or past
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right here in this hole that rights are
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to come down drop just dropped on the
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lens
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the wind coming across the pines he
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returned here a little later in life a
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nostalgic trip down memory lane some of
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that footage was used in the hurt video
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very powerful him looking in the windows
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and reminiscing inside the address
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posted is number 266 the only one left
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of these homes in the immediate
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neighborhood I'm just kind of peeking up
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over the chain-link ideas from a mini a
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song stump from this humble
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accommodations including the cotton
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fields behind it
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reference and quite a few of his hits
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very gusty and went a higher cool
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briskness in the air that is for sure
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greetings from Memphis made it into
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Tennessee a little pit stop for a meal
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the establishment is a barbecue place
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called Corky's there's a pig with the
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chef's add-on out front and this is what
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we're dealing with hood even with the
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mac and cheese and big old work action
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and I went with the catfish oh yeah and
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look who's sitting in the booth next to
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us over there a little photograph of
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Johnny painting there is a flag in your
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pickle there and you're just going to
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town on that mac and cheese sandwich
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doing that usually ready to quick we
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were about to leave and realize we
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didn't try any baked beans and you what
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do you got over here you got some banana
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pudding little made it said okay so
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we're gonna go this is supposed to be
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their specialty for dessert and okay I
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think we needed beans first and it would
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have been a no putting fur to top it off
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might have consumed a little too much
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but only because it was good would eat
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here again most definitely this was the
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second home he purchased here in Memphis
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right after his success as a musician
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lived here for three or four years
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starting in 57
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into this day currently there is a
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guitar top of the mailbox
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a few years prior to that other home
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him and his first wife Vivian moved in
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here the first homestead in town he was
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still adore door salesman 1954 I believe
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yeah believe us 54 the one on the left
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is the address that matches up but I
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believe it was the entire home at that
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point now I think it might be apartments
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the site of his first gig for money took
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place inside this church building for a
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charity event during Christmas himself
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in the Tennessee - took the stage and
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just down the block a bit is a statue of
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mr. cash right there on the sidewalk
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some of the songs that they played one
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of them was his own composition
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Belshazzar referring to the Babylonian
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king in the Book of Daniel also peace in
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the valley walking the floor over you
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and several Christmas homes after that
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first performance they did then became
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the Tennessee 3 adding himself into the
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mix with the other two
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just hanging around oh you hear that
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in the background I can hear a trainer
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coming around the bend and the nightfall
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has reared his head so I haven't really
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seen the sunshine and I don't know what
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Johnny Cash that we're 26:32 to
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September 12 83 yeah 1 million records
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sold 17 Grammys 48 singles on the 100
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pop two or more singles on country
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charts rock and roll hall of fame
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Country Music Hall of Fame
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Kenny Center Honors the National Medal
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of Honor and the Grammy Lifetime
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Achievement Award thats a that's a
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that's a lifelong it's a good resume
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yeah
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it's almost as if he's exiting out of
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the church spot of his first gig and
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about to cross the road
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as we were commuting over to Sun Records
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to finish out the evening pulled off the
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street notice this it's a very large
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mural just doing some thinking wasn't
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sure we'd find a painting like this here
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in town we just looked over to the right
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as we were driving in there he was
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recording just like Johnny Cash and
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come back when the tour's are happening
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it's currently closed in the evening
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unless you are a recording artist
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which I'm not but I will be back at some
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point