Johnny Cash Hospitalized Again

Country music icon Johnny Cash was hospitalized in Nashville on Sunday morning, February 11th. According to a spokesperson at the city's Baptist Hospital, the sixty-eight-year-old singer is in "serious but stable condition," but the singer's family has asked hospital officials not to disclose further details to the media.

Cash was treated for pneumonia in October, 1999, at the same hospital, spending twelve days in coma, while in 1998, he was hospitalized twice with the ailment. In 1997, he was mis-diagnosed with Shy-Drager's syndrome, which attacks the nervous system disease, but as recently as two months ago, the singer told reporters that his health was much improved.

Cash, an eight-time Grammy winner, is nominated for two awards this year.

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Song Stories

“Let My Love Open the Door”

Pete Townshend | 1980

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."

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