Video: To Johnny Cash, we destroyed a 1979 Volvo in rural New Mexico

This week's video sidebar to Jef Otte's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" column -- "Johnny Cash's covers album has the gravity that Paul McCartney's doesn't" -- talks about country music and destroying a 1979 Volvo 240 in rural New Mexico with the "Murder" cassette from Johnny Cash's Love,...

By Nick Lucchesi

February 15, 2012

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This week's video sidebar to Jef Otte's "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" column -- "Johnny Cash's covers album has the gravity that Paul McCartney's doesn't" -- talks about country music and destroying a 1979 Volvo 240 in rural New Mexico with the "Murder" cassette from Johnny Cash's Love, God, Murder box set stuck in the player. Enjoy.

Be sure to also watch last week's video, "Why Nickelback is poised to take Creed down a peg."

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