re: #688 Cato the Elder

I an I gotta tell ya, mon, Johnny hung with the people all the time. Yeah, he was a zillionaire, but he was a down-to-earth guy, and if he hadn’t already taken the slow train I would trade a year of life to hang with him for a day. When he tells that story in a concert with Willie Nelson, you believe him. He called the guy a “bum”, not a panhandler. Johnny shot straight. The Man in Black.

And his recording of the complete New Testament is an eye-opener, no two ways about it.

yeah he was an original…he was celebrity around Half Moon…when you leave the place the road is lined with higglers, and gin joints up and down the way…fisherman and food places etc…he was a mixer, you are correct…and the Jamaicans around there loved him…one chance encounter and it’s the biggest event of a lifetime