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12-18-2006, 01:23 PM
Disco star Barry Gibb buys Johnny Cash house in Nashville, plans country record
16/12/2006 7:01:00 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - If former Bee Gee Barry Gibb was looking for some inspiration for the country album he plans to record, he couldn't have picked a more hallowed piece of ground to put down stakes.
Gibb bought and is restoring the lakefront house belonging to the late Johnny and June Carter Cash.
"It's going to be nice," Gibb said Wednesday during a reception in his honour by the performance rights organization BMI.
"We'd like to use it as our second home. I would like to come here and write songs."
"I am planning on making a country album. That is really who I am."
Gibb, known for Bee Gees disco hits including "Staying Alive," said he and his two sons have about three completed songs and several others in the works.
"I am a country artist, always have been a country artist and this is my chance to get some self-expression out because the group is no longer the group," he said.
The Bee Gees disbanded after the 2003 death of his brother Maurice.
And if Cash's old property doesn't stir his creativity, maybe Roy Orbison's will. Orbison, who died in 1988, lived next door.
"Do you realize how many hit songs have been written in that four-or five-acre area, including Roy Orbison next door? The inspiration, being surrounded by the musical atmosphere that has been there for 35 years, we just had to do it."
Sometimes, Gibb said, he can sense Cash's spirit in the house.
"You feel like someone is watching," he said.
"You feel like there is a presence in the house of both Johnny and June. I still haven't seen a tall man wearing black clothes yet but I am very much into it and hope that I do."
16/12/2006 7:01:00 PM
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - If former Bee Gee Barry Gibb was looking for some inspiration for the country album he plans to record, he couldn't have picked a more hallowed piece of ground to put down stakes.
Gibb bought and is restoring the lakefront house belonging to the late Johnny and June Carter Cash.
"It's going to be nice," Gibb said Wednesday during a reception in his honour by the performance rights organization BMI.
"We'd like to use it as our second home. I would like to come here and write songs."
"I am planning on making a country album. That is really who I am."
Gibb, known for Bee Gees disco hits including "Staying Alive," said he and his two sons have about three completed songs and several others in the works.
"I am a country artist, always have been a country artist and this is my chance to get some self-expression out because the group is no longer the group," he said.
The Bee Gees disbanded after the 2003 death of his brother Maurice.
And if Cash's old property doesn't stir his creativity, maybe Roy Orbison's will. Orbison, who died in 1988, lived next door.
"Do you realize how many hit songs have been written in that four-or five-acre area, including Roy Orbison next door? The inspiration, being surrounded by the musical atmosphere that has been there for 35 years, we just had to do it."
Sometimes, Gibb said, he can sense Cash's spirit in the house.
"You feel like someone is watching," he said.
"You feel like there is a presence in the house of both Johnny and June. I still haven't seen a tall man wearing black clothes yet but I am very much into it and hope that I do."