Month Of Sundays 1994, A/The Best Of Johnny G 1977-1989 - Johnny G

Advantages: 104 songs means great value for money, plus, a book!
Disadvantages: Not a chance of getting this on your CD shelf, it is a tall book too!

...happily married until the spring of 2003 when June died unexpectedly due to complications following heart valve replacement surgery. Less than 4 months later, on 12th September 2003, diabetes caught up with Johnny, his body failed, and his spirit was sadly set free. He was 71 years old when he died. Johnny Cash's hits included "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", and "Man In Black". He also recorded several amusing songs, such as "One Piece At A Time", "The One on the Right is on the Left" and "A Boy Named Sue", and all of these songs appear in this box set. Johnny Cash is a musician who appeals to many different people, as he does not just fit into one genre of music. He recorded songs that could be considered to be rock, blues, folk and gospel, and he seemed to influence all of these genres in different ways. He... Read review

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Advantages: He is Johnny Cash
Disadvantages: I am not Johnny Cash

...” is a tender ballad which he dedicates for the most part to his wife (the woman that tamed him) June Carter. “Rusty Cage” is a song about almost everything that Johnny liked singing songs about, and is dirty as hell, written by Tom Petty and this is probably the one song that sounds most like Tom Petty and The Heart Breakers. “The One Rose (That is Left in My Heart)” is obviously one of Johnny’s favourite songs you can tell just by the way he writes about it in the sleeve notes, and that voice of God thing starts creeping in again. “Country Boy” is about just that being a Country Boy, the joy of standing barefoot on a steam locomotive, the joy of being poor but having a richness of the soul cause who needs money when you got that?? (6) and is proof that Johnny did not always write about depressing things. The Johnny Cash Treatment of “Memories... Read review

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Advantages: Sombre, poignant, affecting
Disadvantages: Couple of right royal stinkers

...on his hip" and again the storytelling in once again top notch. Can't help thinking that this album would have been near perfect with the omission of We'll Meet Again and Danny Boy, though. OVERALL --------------- A very sad, affecting album made all the more so by the fact that poor Johnny knew he was dying when he recorded this album. Rarely is there a drumbeat or anything electronic involved here, it's mainly cellos and other strings and acoustic and steel guitars everywhere. He sounds tired, but experienced, and soulful in maudlin, weary kind of way. Of course, this isn't an album for everyone and - like your grandad on her deathbed - you may not wish to visit it and just remember him as he used to be. In which case, check out these Johnny Cash classics: -Live At Folsom Prison -Johnny Cash At San Quentin -The... Read review

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