Memories: What Was Your First Memory Of Someone Else’s Music Influencing Your Life?

That’s easy. For me, it was Johnny Cash. My dad was a huge fan of the “Man in Black” and owned all of his records. He actually had instituted a policy whereby all of us kids were required to sit in the dimly-lit living room after dinner and listen to his records with him.

Most of [what we listened to] was country music. This was when country music was more real. Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Elvis - my dad had great taste in music, if you ask me.

I loved everything he would play, but the big favorite between me and my sister was Johnny Cash’s Live at San Quentin. We knew every word and would raise our arms and cheer in all the same spots the prison crowd would on that record.

To this day, Johnny Cash remains one of my all-time favorites. Hearing certain old Jonny Cash songs can instantly bring me back to that scene - sprawled out on an orange/brown shag-carpeted floor, digesting a home-cooked meal with the rest of my family and listening to those old records.

Bryan Kienlen
Bouncing Souls

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