There are some songs that you can’t help but bop your head along to. Nowadays, most of the songs that we nod our heads to have some type of backtrack beat that gets us moving. Decades ago, it took something a bit different to get people moving and dancing!
One of best music genres for getting people moving is country!
Folk and country music have been around for a long time! They were the dance music before computers and speaker systems ever were a thing. People would come together for events and if someone had a guitar (or something similar), it was time to party!
Johnny Cash is the epitome of music with a groove.
The Man in Black is known for many things. His dusky, sulky voice has a bass that can make your mother cry. He has a swing that perks a listeners ears up as you hear the outlaw swagger contained within. And maybe, just maybe, the most important aspect of his music is his rhythm.
His music was “steady as a train, sharp like a razor”.
Most of Cash’s songs had a rhythm that reminds you of a train, churning away down the tracks. It moves you forward with its power. One of the best examples of this is the song Folsom Prison Blues.
While Cash doesn’t perform too much anymore, Vince Mira has taken up his mantle!
Vince Mira is a singer from Washington who often performs old Cash songs. Few people can perform his songs because of the bass-baritone that Cash has; thankfully, Vince is always up for a challenge.
Captured on video, we get to see Mira perform that “train of a song”, Folsom Prison Blues.
Mira and his band are performing a set at the grand opening for some new business. With Mira and his band on stage, Mira announces, to the crowd’s delight, that he will be performing Folsom Prison Blues. Launching into the song, we see why people love the song so much.
With a few twangs on the guitar strings, they launch into their performance.
You can immediately hear why people associate this type of music with trains. It is strong, driving, and gets the heart pumping. It is almost as if there is a coal engine driving the energy of the song. Led by the plucking upright bass and the swinging shaker, you fall sway to the song immediately.
When Vince starts singing you hear why people love him.
Mira has one of those special voices that few people can fake. It is something you are either born with or not! Mira has that bassy, low-register chest voice that is so loved in Outlaw Country songs.
The band grooves behind as the song chugs forward.
The mark left by Cash and his music is still visible in much of America. Cash is still releasing songs posthumously to this day, albeit with much more gravel and emotion in his voice. Listening to people like Vince can bring us back to a time where things were different and Men in Black captured the attention of the world.
Check out the video Vince’s talent in the below!
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