RIP Mashall Grant

Marshall Grant -- the bass player in Johnny Cash's original backing band -- The Tennessee Two -- has died in an Arkansas hospital.

Grant was in Jonesboro, AR, for a Johnny Cash festival that featured George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Roseanne Cash and John Carter Cash.

You can't match the music that Marshall Grant helped make. But one artist who recognized his immense contribution in song is Stan Ridgway -- the former frontman for Wall of Voodoo. His 1996 song "Luther Played Guitar" paid tribute to the great Luther Perkins, Cash's guitarist, but that was largely because both Cash and Grant were still alive at the time. Grant got plenty of respect in Ridgway's lyrics, with lines like "Put Marshall on the bass/I'll sing/And Luther plays guitar."