Man Arrested For Impersonating Merle Haggard’s Son

When he [Johnny Cash] was going to do “Sunday Morning” on his TV show, the network tried to make him take the word “stoned” out of it. You were at the Ryman Auditorium when that happened.

Right. They were filming the Johnny Cash show at the Ryman, and he was going to sing it. The people from the network didn’t want him to say, “Lord, I’m wishing I was stoned,” and there was a bunch of them standing around and they suggested “wishing, Lord, that I was home.” And I said that’s not the same thing, you know, and John never said a word. He just stood there looking at us, so I didn’t know what he was going to do. I would have gone with whatever he wanted to do, but in the show, I was in the balcony up there, and he got to that line and looked up and he said, “wishing, Lord, that I was stoned,” and I just loved him for that. He saved the song. It would not have been the same thing.

Check out the whole thing, it’s good stuff. The second part will be posted tomorrow.

I slipped before I jumped onto the drum riser, that was the first one, and then when I took that jump off the stage, that was already 5 or so feet in the air, I jumped a little higher than I thought. I got some good air though! While I was up there I looked out into the crowd and was blinded by the spotlight so when I looked down, I couldn’t judge how far I was from the ground. All those factors, plus the grass was wet led to those spectacular falls Wednesday night. So to wrap up, nothing hurt but my pride! When I laid in the grass for a while after the fall I was just thinking yep my name is Jason Michael Carroll and I just fell on my butt in front of thousands of people!