I Find the Darkened Corner

What could anyone possibly write to capture a Johnny Cash song, covered by Emmylou Harris and Elvis Costello at a sweaty dark club in Memphis, TN? Better to get the fuck out of the way and let the music play.

I suppose a few facts won’t hurt. 

• “I Still Miss Someone” was written by Cash and his nephew Roy, appearing as the B-side on his 1958 single “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town.” 

• It was a popular live choice for Cash, perhaps most famously in his appearance at Folsom Prison in 1968. 

• Cash performed the song with Bob Dylan in an unused version meant for Nashville Skyline. (This was finally released officially in 2019’s installment of The Bootleg Series.) 

• Cash and Dylan also performed the song backstage in 1966, as documented in the notorious and unreleased film Eat the Document. 

• The song has charted four separate times in four separate versions by four different artists. 

EC and Emmylou performed the song in 2005 for Club Date: Live in Memphis, a live DVD filmed in 2004 at the Hi-Tone Cafe in Memphis, TN.