The pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll and what we now call American Music are in their eighties now. It’s remarkable that Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino are still playing, but we’ve lost many other legends of that generation.
Marshall Grant, the last living member of Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two, died on Sunday. His bass playing was basic, but essential to Johnny Cash’s sound.
Peter Cooper of the Tennessean wrote an excellent piece on Grant’s passing, including this quote from Rosanne Cash:
“I was thinking yesterday that there would be no me without Marshall,” said
Cash’s daughter, the singer, songwriter and author on Sunday morning. “Had Dad not had Marshall, he wouldn’t have had the ‘Johnny Cash Sound,’ and he wouldn’t have become all that he was, in his fullness. And I wouldn’t have become a songwriter or a musician. There’s a whole lineage that wouldn’t have happened.”
You’ll find Cooper’s story here.
