MusicBilly Bob Thornton reveals he recorded a duet with Johnny Cash

Imagine recording a song with one of your idols. This is an honor few have achieved, but the actor and musician Billy Bob Thornton You can say you are part of this select group. In an interview with The Guardian, he revealed that he recorded a version of the classic “I Still Miss Someone” with himself Johnny Cash.

He recalled the episode when he was asked how he met the singer. “I never got over being nervous around Johnny Cash because it was as if God entered the room”, Thornton remembered. “I stayed at his house a few times and didn’t want to be caught in my drawers looking in his fridge. So I stayed in my room all night. But he was very kind to me. We did a duet together of one of his songs, ‘I Still Miss Someone‘, which I never released.”

“Cash said to me, ‘What’s your idea, son?’ And I said, ‘Well, I thought we’d do the first verse and the bridge and then you could do your recitation.’ This was at a point where Johnny I was a little sicker. And I said, ‘Then you do the recitation and then we come back and do the last verse and the bridge.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, that sounds good to me.’ And then he said, ‘I might even have an idea or two. After all, I wrote the f***ing thing.’ And I was like, ‘Yes, sir, sorry.’” said the actor about how the recording process with the artist went.

The actor also said that Cash “wrote a story about that day on four pieces of notebook paper.” “It was part truth, part fiction,” explained the actor. “And on the last page there are three of his autographs: ‘John R Cash‘, ‘Johnny Cash‘, ‘John Cash‘. And I said, ‘Johnwhy did you write three autographs on that paper?’ He said, ‘Son, if you run out of money, cut this into three pieces and you’ll be fine.'”