Advantages: Classic , fresh , raw , entertaining , a little piece of history . Disadvantages: May be too dated for some .
Background
JohnnyCash had been recording and playing for quite a while before I came across him properly as an artiste. In the early seventies my brother bought "JohnnyCash live at St Quentin" and it was a real eye opener, or should I say ear opener to me. Previously to this I had sort of heard him in passing but not taken that much notice. As a flighty teenager he had seemed far too old and straight to appeal to me. It took my advancing years to truly get a feel for the man and his music. However "San Quentin" was one of the first rungs on the ladder.
My boyfriend at the time, and Husband to this day, bought the L.P before I knew him and so, among our differing tastes in music, this was one firm favourite. He has bought Cash?s music over the years right up to his final offerings and for me the music matured well along ...
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. JohnnyCash 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 ...
Advantages: Play - When you're weary and feeling small... Disadvantages: Don't Play - When you're with your skater buddies.
This fabulous album was robbed of being the last throw by the late, great JohnnyCash by the dodgy decision to release American V, a wholly lesser album.
So If you have no other Cash recording in your collection you must get this one. It's the voice of a reformed hell-raiser, drug addict and truly God-fearing man on the brink of final personal oblivion. It's difficult to tell when the tremble in his voice is emotion and when it's simple frailty. I like to believe it's the one caused by the other.
Stand-out tracks - The monumental "Hurt" is the show-stopper here, made more emotional by the realisation that Cash is singing with first-hand experience of the subject matter.
The cover of Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" is a close second for track of the album. Succinct and direct acoustic guitar backing pushes the song along nicely ...
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Product details
Title
Orange Blossom Special
Performer
Johnny Cash
Genre
Country
Sub Genre
Outlaw Country
Release Date
25/03/2002
Recomended Retail Price
8.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1965
Label / Distributor
Columbia / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
5099750637425
Catalogue Number
5063742
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals); Luther Perkins, Norman L. Blake, Robert L. "Bob" Johnson, Ray Edenton (guitar); Charles R. "Charlie" McCoy (harmonica); Homer L. "Boots" Randolph (saxophone); William K. "Bill" McElhiney, Karl R. Garvin (trumpet); Floyd Cramer (piano); Marshall Grant (bass); W.S. Holland (drums). Producers: Don Law, Frank Jones. Reissue producer: Al Quaglieri. Includes liner notes by Billy Altman and Johnny Cash. Digitally remastered by Mark Wilder and Seth Foster (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York). The song that gives this mid-'60s album its title is a further exploration of Johnny Cash's love of trains as first heard on the 1960 concept album RIDE THIS TRAIN. The light-hearted, harmonica-led tune would become one of the most-loved songs in Cash's repertoire, but it's not even the high point here. Cash's Bob Dylan fixation is at its high point as he tackles no less than three Dylan tunes to fine effect. His stately version of the faux-traditional "Long Black Veil" is possibly the finest take on this oft-covered song. A little-known highlight is "All God's Children Ain't Free," a protest song that displays the admirable, iconoclastic populism that was at the heart of Cash's personal politics. The country-folk chestnut "Wildwood Flower" is a tip of the hat to the Carter Family and Cash's future wife June Carter. Three previously unreleased tunes spice things up on this reissue, including an alternate take on Dylan's ambivalent love song "Mama You've Been on My Mind."
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