Walkin' The Line Concert at Pala Casino Explains as Well as Sings Johnny Cash

JOHNNY GUITAR: The First Existential Western

Written for the Olive Films Blu-Ray, which came out in 2016. — J.R. François Truffaut called it the Beauty and the Beast of Westerns, without saying who was the beauty and who was the beast. (One could find many candidates for either role). And Jean-Luc Godard, in his second feature, Le Petit Soldat, offered a spin on the movie’s most celebrated dialogue exchange, before offering explicit references to Johnny Guitar in several other films he mad…

Walkin' The Line concert at Pala Casino explains as well as sings Johnny Cash

Bennie Wheels portrays Johnny Cash in the tribute band Walkin' The Line which performed July 10 at Pala Casino's Palomar Starlight Theater. Wheels not only sang more than two dozen Johnny Cash songs but also explained many elements of The Man in Black. The backing band of the actual Johnny Cash was known as the Tennessee Three. The lead guitar, bass guitar, and drum musicians backing...