Friday, November 25, 2005
"Ray Cash" - two headed monster
I had the strange experience of watching both "Ray" and "Walk The Line" within a month of each other. The similarities between the movies and the biographies of both musicians are overwhelming.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Both men...
- were born in the early 1930's
- were born in the South
- were dirt poor as children
- shared guilt over the death of their brothers
- were inspired by gospel music
- started their careers in small independent recording studios
- took on a drug habit to cope with being on the road
- were considered controversial
- cheated on their wives while on the road
- went to prison for bringing drugs across the border on a plane
- tried to make their wives happy by buying them progressively larger houses
- moved to a nice house in California
- always wore dark sunglasses
- went through painful sweaty rehabs and hallucinated seeing their dead brothers
- died within 9 months of each other
