One Foot In The Blues - Johnny Adams

Advantages: Great foot tapping sing-along tracks
Disadvantages: /

...If you have seen the film Walk the Line starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon and loved the music in the film then you may want to buy the soundtrack as it is just as great. & even if you haven't seen the film but love great foot tapping country/ Rock 'n' Roll songs with some slower country/blues ballads mixed in then this may be for you too. I thought the film was absolutely amazing and so went out and bought the soundtrack the very next day. I have loved Johnny Cash's music for a long time but do not have any of his cd's. One of the great aspects of the film was that the singers all did their own singing and nobody mimed a word. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon are so convincing as Johnny Cash and June Carter that when I put the cd on, it could almost be the real thing. Tracks: 1. Get Rhythm - sung by Phoenix... Read review

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Advantages: Totaly Definitive Album
Disadvantages: None Whasoever Buy It and Make your life Better

...For definitive albums you don't get much more definitive than this one. Johnny Cash backed by the Tennassee three and others, playing to 2000 inmates and armed guards at Folsam Prison. The album kicks off in fine style with "Folsam Prison Blues" with the tennassee three Boom-chicka-Booming in fine style and goes down a storm with the crowd. There is also a good selection of songs paying "tribute" to Johnny's toubled past, such as "Cocaine Blues" and the gallows humor of "25 Minutes to Go". Cash's bas baritone is also in fine form throughout the recording which is especially good on the very soulful rendition of "The Green Green Grass Of Home" The album covers pretty much the whole of Johnnys repotire filled to the brim with songs about Murder, Crime, Drinking, Drugs, Love, Spirituality and Twisted Humor. This album is pretty much... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Classic , fresh , raw , entertaining , a little piece of history .
Disadvantages: May be too dated for some .

...Prison Blues * After Boos for the warden Johnny Cash’s ‘ Ah you don’t really mean that ‘ hit’s the spot . Folsom prison blues gives Cash a chance at the start to introduce all the band members before it storms into full swing . It is a light-hearted quick paced track on a heavy subject .It is a foot tapping tune . Track Fourteen - Ring of Fire.* Cash shifts quickly and easily into Ring of Fire . Another quick paced track . Track Fifteen - He turned the Water into Wine .* Johnny tells the prisoners about a recent visit to Israel and the history behind his writing this song . This track is a stirring religious offering about Jesus and the place which inspired Cash‘s song. Track Sixteen - Daddy sang Bass .* This Carl Perkins song has a lively beat about the childhood family all singing together . Track Seventeen - The Old account was settled... Read review

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