Fri. Feb. 26

 Johnny Cash will forever be known as the Man in Black. Forget, that for a time he wore all white. Black was his color. I believe he once said something to the effect of "I wear black so as to remember all the suffering in the world." Or maybe because it was slimming. Hey, we saw Cash at age 12, when "A Boy Named Sue" came out. Our first concert ever: With the Tennessee Three and the Statler Bros. Way cool. I can't tell you how great it is not to say "Journey" when asked what my first concert was. Some of my friends have not been so lucky ... Anyway, back to black. It's been a pretty recurring theme in my wardrobe for many years and remains so, so in doing what our pal Heidi Robinson - who does PR for Cash's music, Rick Rubin and others - asks, it will not be difficult. She wants to celebrate Johnny's 78th birthday on Friday Feb. 26 - one he didnt' quite make himself - by encouraging everyone around the world to ... wear black. If you're on Facebook you can "attend" the "Johnny Cash's 78th Birthday" Event (http://awe.sm/50iWn). You can also pick up "American Recordings VI," the last of the Cash-Rubin series of songs he recorded not long before his death. It's spare, haunting, moving, the sound of a man who knows where he's headed and soon. (Our headline comes from a great song by Johnny Angel, singer-guitarist of the former Boston punk band, the Blackjacks. A truly great song, find it on YouTube. ...)