“It was one of my first public singing occasions,” says Cash of his 1949 performance of “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes”
“Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes” takes its lyrics from “To Celia,” a poem written in 1616 by English poet Ben Jonson, although various melodies to which it would be fused would come more than a century later. While never issued during his lifetime, Cash’s recording, essentially a guitar-vocal demo from 1973 , surfaced on the 2006 compilation, which consisted of 49 unreleased tracks chosen from tapes discovered at the House of Cash studios.
As was the case with this cut, several of the tracks on the two-disc compilation include the singer’s spoken-word memories of the songs and their significance to him. Included in the collection are his versions of tunes by John Prine and Rodney Crowell , as well as the Louvins , the Carter Family , songwriter Bill Anderson , and several written by Cash himself.
“It was such a strong memory for me,” Cash recalls of performing “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.” “I can see me when I was 17 years old standing … at the senior-class graduation. I never forgot that because it was one of my first public singing occasions, and I have sung this song, mainly to myself, ever since I was 17 years old because of those memories.”
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