Original Album Classics (The Fabulous Johnny Cash/Songs Of Our Soil/Hymns By Johnny Cash/Ride This Train/Orang - Johnny Cash

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

...-advised covers on this album, but this one manages to err on the side of cool as opposed to "bad idea!" It's the Simon and Garfunkel classic of course, and no lyric has ever suited Johnny Cash than the opening "when you're weary": he sounds it too. Superb, inspired version using just a guitar and a cello. 5. I Hung My Head This track was originally included with a free CD on the front of Q magazine last year and hence served as my introduction to Cash. And what an intro! It's another "story-song" about Cash out on the plains taking shooting practice with his rifle when it accidentally goes off and kills a lone rider in the distance. He tried and found guilty and hung and the song is sung from the perspective of both the pre-trial Cash and the dead, post-hung Cash. It's OK, though, because Cash and the guy he killed become mates in Heaven... Read review

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

...piece of country gospel, and that listening to it with an open ear just might make you understand something about love. “I Never picked Cotton” is more of a statement of intent than a song, rebellion, betrayal and redemption are classic elements of country music and here it is for you in its full glory. The last two songs “Unchained” is a superb piece of gospel, if the music was this good in our churches then more people would go, and “I’ve Been Everywhere” finish off this album but I have grown weary of writing as the codeine is wearing off so I will leave you in one paragraphs time. This Album won the Grammy for best country album in 1997, and started off a relationship between Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin. During the rest of his life Johnny world produce several more albums with Rick Rubin which arguably were among the best of his... Read review

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Advantages: 37 awe inspiring songs
Disadvantages: None

...The first cd in this double collection is Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison. It was recorded in 1968 (well before i was born). This was the time of Presidential Abdication, The Vietnam War and the continuing Civil Rights struggle. It was also the same year Mr. Johnny Cash married Miss June Carter, his saviour. This cd really opened my eyes to what life was like "back in the day". With 19 great songs including "Folsom Prison Blues", "Cocaine Blues" and the fantastic "Jackson" a duet with June. There had never been a recording session quite like this one which produced this album. The songs on the cd's:- 1 Folsom prison blues 2 Busted 3 Dark as the dungeon 4 I still miss someone 5 Cocaine Blues 6 25 minutes to go 7 Orange Blossom Blues 8 The long Black Veil 9 Send a picture of Mother 10 The wall 11 Dirty old egg-suckin' dog 12... Read review

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