Billy Bob Thornton reveals he once recorded a duet with Johnny Cash

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Johnny Cash.The actor shared the anecdote in a new interview with The Guardian, in response to a fan asking him what it was like to meet the ‘I Walk The Line’ singer.Thornton replied that he never got over being nervous around the late musician “because it was like God walked in the room.”He continued: “I stayed at his house a couple of times and I did not want to get caught in my drawers looking in his refrigerator.

So I just stayed in my room all night long. But he was very kind to me. We did a duet together of one of his songs, ‘I Still Miss Someone’, that I’ve never put out.”‘I Still Miss Someone’ was written by Cash and his nephew Roy Cash, Jr.

in 1958, and was released as a b-side to ‘Don’t Take Your Guns to Town’ – the lead single from his seminal album ‘The Fabulous Johnny Cash’.Thornton went on to say: “Cash said to me, ‘What’s your idea, son?’ And I said, ‘Well, I thought we’d do the first verse and bridge and then you could do your recitation.’ This was at a point where Johnny was in a little more ill health.“And I said, ‘Then you do the recitation and then we’ll come back and do the last verse and bridge.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, that sounds good to me.’ And then he said, ‘I might even have an idea or two myself.

After all I wrote the fucking thing.’ And I was like, ‘Yes, sir, sorry.’”He then added that Cash “wrote a story about that day on four pieces of notebook paper.” “It was partly truth, partly fiction,” he said.