The Last Man Standing
Johnny Cash looks back on a life and asks what remains. Willie Nelson looks around, discovers that he is still here, and laughs.
Two great American voices. Two men near the end of a very long road. Two remarkably different encounters with age, memory, regret, friendship, death—and the strange fact of still being alive.
In Johnny Cash’s haunting “Hurt,” the trophies are tarnished, the rooms are empty, and memory becomes an examination of conscience. In Willie Nelson’s “Last Man Standing,” the friends are disappearing too—but Willie meets mortality with a shrug, a grin, and another song.
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