![]() Cash also said the humming at the beginning of each verse was inspired by a physician he went to as a child in Arkansas who would hum all the time during appointments and that the line I keep my eyes wide open all the time was a quote from writer and lecturer Dale Carnegie. ![]() A 2000 retrospective story on “I Walk the Line” by NPR reports that the guitar chords came from sounds on Cash’s tape recorder from when he was in the Air Force in Germany that turned out to be a backward recording of a song by the band he performed with overseas, Landsberg Barbarians. I feel the songs is about a guy who loves a woman so much, he is completely happy and satisfied with this one person and doesnt so much as even look at other. Melodically, Cash allegedly drew inspiration from real-life sounds and quotes. In the book, Grant says “there’s no doubt that ‘I Walk the Line’ was the turning point in our career.” 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, becoming Cash’s first chart topper, and crossed over into mainstream music, peaking at No. ![]() ![]() Despite the band’s insistence that the record label release the ballad to radio, Phillips went ahead and issued the faster version, which proved to be a resounding success. The song was originally crafted as a ballad, which Cash was adamant about keeping until Sun Records founder and the song’s producer, Sam Phillips, requested that they cut a more uptempo version. ![]()
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