by Ed Bruce edbrucevegas@yahoo.com
You sure as hell are not !!!!!!
That was Jimmie Ray's opening line, I am not Johnny Cash and he was right !
Another impersonator show, this one at the terrific Starbright theatre in Summerlin.
Jimmie Ray and the Ring of Fire show twice on Sunday, I am sorry I was most uncomfortable with this,.... whatever it was. I arrived expecting a Johnny Cash impersonator, similar to Shawn Barker at the Sante Fe earlier this year. Not today !
I carry lots of baggage here with 31 Johnny Cash albums before I went to Viet Name in 1966...I know how it goes...I have seen the real Johnny Cash. If your are going to impersonate the Beatles, be true to the lyrics and the music, all Beatles groups carry that load accurately, if you are going to do Tchiakovsky's violin concerto don't add anything or change anything, Olegh Krysa did that......Jimmie Ray on Sunday did not do Johnny Cash ! He did some of Cash's music and made up lots, which may be ok for some, but not for me under the Cash storyline. I went in expecting Ballad of a Teenage Queen, Five Feet High and Rising, Don't take your Guns to Town, Cocaine Blues and Big River....Ira Hayes where are you ? Even worse for a guys like me who knows all of Cash's music I heard stuff that was new to me....in a tribute show ?
This show had decent music but it was not like Shawn Barker's Cash and not a true tribute show...it had other stuff....and when I left 54 minutes in a woman was playing the harmonica and doing Hank Williams.....Ring of Fire is not a duet ! They started late....audio was bad (gee I was hoping to hear Cash lyrics) and the experience was negative, I was not entertained and I was disappointed.
Not a total failure, not loud and some decent music even if you could not hear the lyrics. 70 C-
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