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Johnny Cash, Wife Win Posthumous Grammys
By Dean Goodman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Late country music icon Johnny Cash won a Grammy Award on Sunday for a heartbreaking video clip that served as a nostalgic farewell to his fans.
His wife, June Carter Cash , who died just a few months before he did last year, also won a Grammy, in the traditional folk album category. Both awards were accepted on their behalf by their only son, John Carter Cash.
Cash's clip for "Hurt," filmed at his home north of Nashville less than a year before he died last September, won the Grammy for best short form video, the first prize announced during the non-televised portion of the ceremony.
A funereal tune about depression written in 1994 by Trent Reznor of hard rock band Nine Inch Nails, "Hurt" was covered by Cash on his last album, "The Man Comes Around," which has sold more than one million copies in the United States.
"My father, he can take any song and make it his own," John Carter Cash said. "To take a song of such gut-wrenching potential and strength and fear and not lose his dignity is amazing."
June Carter Cash died in May, before the release of her third solo album, "Wildwood Flower." Her son said she was able to hear the recording and review the artwork for the album, which he described as "a real labor of love."
His mother's cover of the Carter Family's "Keep on the Sunny Side" was nominated for female country vocal performance. The Cashes were also nominated for their duet on "Temptation," a contender for the country collaboration with vocals category.
Johnny Cash already had 11 Grammys , including two he shared with June Carter Cash. She won a Grammy in her own name for her 1999 solo album, "Press On."
Filmed by director Mark Romanek in October 2002, the clip shows the frail, white-haired "Man in Black" sitting at a table at his Hendersonville, Tenn. home while June worriedly looks at him from a nearby staircase. Some scenes were shot at Cash's nearby flood-damaged museum, complete with broken artifacts such as a shattered gold record.
The video includes old footage from Cash's hellraising glory days, including a jailhouse performance at San Quentin in the late 1960s.
Despite airing only once on MTV before his death, the clip picked up six nominations at the music cable channel's annual Video Music Awards last year.
In a major snub, it won just one prize, for cinematography, and Cash died 15 days later, on Sept. 12.
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| Pattie |
I can't believe Justin T won a grammy! I'm gonna go throw up now |
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| Pattie |
kudos to Johnny of course, forgot to say that in my disgust |
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| glencar |
Grammys are meaningless, people. |
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