God Johnny Cash is seriously America's bad-a**

he was blind?

he was blind?

I wasn't aware that he was blind.

Awesome news, though.

Reading his wikipedia bio I'm pretty sure he was not blind.

You can't exactly take Wikipedia all too seriously, as anyone can edit it.

I never heard of him going blind, theres no way you could write thirty songs blind i don't care who you are.

It's possible he could be blind and write thirty songs after playing for as long as he did. NME (where I got this) said he was both blind and in a wheelchair.

my dad is a huge johnny cash fan and grew up with him and when i inquired of him (he knows a lot about johnny) he said he wasnt blind, but he might be wrong.

The guy was old and I believe at that point he had some health problems. I would not be surprised if he was blind at this point in his life.

I'm a big fan of Johnny Cash recently. Amazing music.

I wouldn't be surprised if he was blind towards the end of his lifetime. He was a great musicican, so I undoubtlingly enjoyed this news.

[quote=davybum69]I never heard of him going blind, theres no way you could write thirty songs blind i don't care who you are.[/quote]

Um, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles ring any bells??

Reading this I respect the man greatly.

he's the only country artist that i like.

same here, and a true legend.

I've never heard of him going blind, but even if he did I'm sure he could still write and record music. I'm not sure, but I think Beethoven wrote music after he went deaf. That shit would be f-ing hard.

http://www.myspace.com/johnnycash Im listening to the album right now, Ill buy and review this on monday.

He had diabetes, and he didn't treat it, which caused him to go blind. (Maybe not completely blind, but probably legally blind).

Like the 309 sounds pretty damn good considering its his last song and he was in a bad condition in those last couple of months of his life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw1bHaUk1CM

Johnny was awesome, his music was amazing, his music will always be listened to.