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Reflecting on the Loss of a Legend

News of Johnny Cash's death reverberated through the Austin music community on Friday. Here is what some in the music business had to say about the legendary Man in Black . . .

Bruce Robison, singer/songwriter, Austin: "It seems like that whole generation is dying, all these people who you believed when they sang a song. We're always looking for people on that level. ... He was also a truly larger-than-life character. You'd see pictures of him in the long black coat, and you'd just go, 'Oh, my God.' There's only one Johnny Cash."

Kelly Willis, singer/songwriter, Austin: "I used to cover 'Cry, Cry, Cry' when I was playing rockabilly. He was one of these people who crossed boundaries so well. He was considered a country artist, but he was really in a league of his own. When 'Hurt' came out (it was so good that) it was embarrassing to be a mainstream country artist making silly pop songs."

Will Johnson, songwriter, Austin: "One of the first musical memories I have is of my grandparents playing his records for me when I was 3 or 4. I didn't get the renegade nature of his music at that age. . . . I just kept coming back to the voice. It's been such a soothing element in my life. It didn't matter where I was or what circumstance I might have been in; that voice has always been such a song of therapy to me. He could have sung the dictionary, and I would have been elated."

Henry Garza, Los Lonely Boys, San Angelo: "We loved Johnny Cash. One of the first songs I learned was 'Folsom Prison Blues.' He left us a great deal to continue on with. We've lost a valuable person, a legend."

Dean Blackwood, owner, Revenant Records, Austin: "He never had to worry about becoming unfashionable because he never was particularly fashionable. . . . People responded to material that sounded hopelessly contrived on paper -- like having him do a Nine Inch Nails song -- because I don't think he was a guy who could be talked into doing something that he couldn't bring something new to. People responded to his investment."

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