The Big Light
From the Grand Rapids Press, on Johnny Cash and EC's The Big Light:
"Bruce Parrott, news director at WLHT-FM has fond memories of meeting Jonny Cash in the Mid-1980s. "He was Playing at DeVos Hall, and I was working at WCUZ-FM and emcee-ing the show. " Parrott said. Elvis Costello's "King Of America" album had just come out, and, as I was standing next to him backstage, I said, "There's song on the new Elvis Costello album that you should do; it sounds like it was written for you."
Knowing he had to pick up Cash at his hotel the next day. Parrott says he copied the lyrics to the song and made a tape of it to give to the singer. "Two months later, I got a letter from Cash thanking me and telling me that he had recorded "The Big Light" for his album "Johnny Cash is Coming to Town." Parrott said.
The next time he came to grand Rapids, which was about two years later, he did that song onstage at DeVos and dedicated it to me" He said Proudly."
(Submitted by James Bleeker)