Ring Of Fire (The Legend Of Johnny Cash) - Johnny Cash > Reviews > The Man in Black

Author's product rating:   

Originality	Definitely a cut above the rest
Lyrics	Thought-provoking
Quality and consistency of tracks	Flawless
How does it rate alongside the competition	Outstanding
Value for Money	Excellent

Advantages:	All his best hits on 1 cd
Disadvantages:	There are none that i can find

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Johnny Cash who performed with several other artists including, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Car Perkins, Chet Atkins and of course his wife June Carter Cash.

This man for me is the King of Country his styles have changed from what ever style or frame of mind he was in at the time, his voice offers both depth and tone to any song even a badly written song perfromed by JC sounds good.

He spent time in prison and engaged these visits into his music and portrayed him self to be an honest man by hiding no facts that he had strayed from the right ways of life he also encourage others to do the same, come clean and your fans will understand and love you more for being truthful he told one country star.

This cd embraces the best of him and his styles with his country guitar riffs and deep voice some of his best hits ever are on this cd, his last song released " Hurt " is on there which i belive was written while mourning his wifes death, sadly he died only approx 3 months after losing his wife.

The country scene will changed now forever with the loss of this artist his input was a much needed boost for country music in the whole spectrum.

1. Ring Of Fire
Best song for which Johnny Cash is reknown for a very catchy tune and tone with a good use of his deep vocals).
2. I Walk The Line
A basic style country riff and backing, almost cumbers up an image of a lonely hobo walk the train tracks deep in thought but changes to the thoughts of a man in love and dumped by his lover and made to suffer the consequences.
3. Jackson
Performed with his wife June Carter Cash and highly uplifting style song, and cumbers up an image of a country family in their home have a gettogether singalong on a Sunday afternoon.
4. Folsom Prison Blues
A guy in prison admitting hes done wrong but driven mad by the fact that outside his walls life goes on without any care embellessed with a deep regret.
5. Boy Named Sue (live)
A comedy style song about a boy whoose father called him " Sue " and the trials he went through to find his father, starts with a hate for his father and ends with a kinda love for him (very funny if you listen to the lyricks).
6. Big River
7. Get Rhythm
8. Cry Cry Cry
9. Hey Porter
10. Thing Called Love
11. Guess Things Happen That Way
12. San Quentin (live) (Performed Live At San Quentin Prison, detailling bad feelings against both the USA detention system but mostly against the prison itself.
13. Man In Black
14. Highwayman
15. Wanderer - Cash, Johnny & U2
16. I've Been Everywhere
17. Rusty Cage
18. Personal Jesus
19. Give My Love To Rose
20. One
21. Hurt
A title for a song which when you listen to seems like the artist is hurting himself deep down, a true thought provoking song with depth, almost seems to me an artist with drepression, bearing in mind what the artist had just lost from his life, this song i would think was his way of dealing with his " Hurt ".

This cd is a must to any country fan and an absolute gem and i challenge anyone to find fault with this as this is the artists best work saved for last.

Buy and enjoy..