Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash - 16 Biggest Hits
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Free Music Review: Interpersonal fireworks set off terrific country duets
Hit: 5 Stars
It's hard to imagine anyone else with the musical authority and personal sass to hold up half of "Jackson" with Johnny Cash. But hold-up half is exactly what June Carter did, providing the perfect foil on this and fifteen other duets. Together country music's first couple laid down interpersonal fireworks on Marshall Grant's "Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man," and eloquently essayed the depth of their love with Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter" and the original "'Cause I Love You." They expanded on Cash's Americana songbook, looking beyond the confines of traditional Nashville publishers to find truly American music from the pens of Bob Dylan, John Sebastian, Kris Kristofferson and Rodney Crowell.
This sixteen track collection, stretching from 1964's "It Ain't Me, Babe" through 1983's "Brand New Dance," pulls together most of the couple's hit singles, and adds B-sides and duets that were scattered across Cash's albums. Amazingly, especially with the avalanche of Cash material that's been reissued in the past few years, this is the first anthology of the couple's duets, nicely complimenting the 2002 reissue of their original duet album, "Carryin' On." The couple's music is a chronicle of their unending love affair with music and with each other. [©2006 hyperbolium dot com]
Free Music Review: A Long Overdue Collection of Johnny and June's best duet work
Hit: 5 Stars
The recent success of the film Walk The Line has spawned numerous - mostly redundant - Johnny Cash solo collections. Surprisingly, this is the first attempt at compiling Johnny and June's best duet recordings and only their second fully collaborative cd (the first, a reissue of their 1967 album Carryin' On, collects the first four tracks included here).
16 Biggest Hits captures most of Johnny and June's duet singles, with their top 30 rendition of "If I Were A Hammer" strangely omitted. Their early recordings were characterized by playful banter, be it humorous ("It Ain't Me Babe," "Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man") or flirtatious ("Jackson"). With their marriage in 1968, there was a shift toward songs of devotion to each other ("If I Were A Carpenter," "The Loving Gift," "The Pine Tree"), and later on, God ("No Need To Worry," "Far Side Banks Of Jordan").
Eleven of these tracks were recorded between 1969 and 1977, when duets between two established solo artists were the rage (think Conway and Loretta, Porter and Dolly, George and Tammy). This collection shows that Johnny and June at their best were the equal of any of those other more prolific country tandems, ultimately creating a harmonious bond on and off record.
Free Music Review: "16 Biggest Hits Of Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash" is excellent!
Hit: 5 Stars
"16 Biggest Hits Of Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash" is excellent! Another impressive combination of Cash's hits, along with wife June Carter Cash!
Track Listing:
1. It Ain't Me, Babe
2. Jackson
3. Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man
4. Oh, What A Good Thing We Had
5. Darlin' Companion
6. If I Were A Carpenter
7. 'Cause I Love You
8. The Loving Gift
9. Help Me Make It Through The Night
10. The Pine Tree
11. No Need To Worry
12. Old Time Feeling
13. One Way Rider
14. Brand New Dance
15. Far Side Banks Of Jordan
16. It Takes One To Know Me
Tracks that I enjoyed: All of them!
Free Music Review: The REAL Johnny and June Story
Hit: 5 Stars
This excellent collection is, amazingly, the very first "best of" collection of the legendary country duet Johnny Cash and June Carter. Spanning the years 1964 to 1980, the album features seven of their eight singles (curiously missing "If I Had a Hammer") as well as many rare duet tracks from Cash solo albums. Although the couple sang together for 35 years, they actually recorded surprisingly few songs together despite being one of country music's most popular and famous duets. The songs are (with noting of chart peak of the actual hits)
1. It Ain't Me Babe(#4)
2. Jackson (#2, Grammy winning performance)
3. Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man (#6)
4. Oh What A Good Thing We Had
5. Darlin' Companion
6. If I Were a Carpenter (#2, Grammy winning performance)
7. 'Cause I Love You
8. The Loving Gift (#27)
9. Help Me Make it Through the Night
10. The Pine Tree
11. No Need to Worry (#15)
12. Old Time Feeling (#26)
13. One Way Rider
14. Brand New Dance
15. Far Side Banks of Jordan
16. It Takes One to Know One
Songwriters whose works are performed include Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Edd Wheeler, Waylon Jennings, Rodney Crowell, Carlene Carter, and Johnny and June themselves.
This is true blue mainstream country music, not rock n'roll, not folk, and the Cashs are masters of the art. Their Grammy-winning classics "Jackson" and "If I Were a Carpenter" are naturally here as the hilariously sassy "Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man". They do a fine cover of "Help Me Make it Through the Night" turning that song about sex into a song about love and co-wrote the bittersweet saga of faded love in "Oh, What a Good Thing We Had". This collection shows a quite versatile team going from hilarious comic numbers to unforgettable sagas of love and memories.
All of the performances are fine but the jewel of the collection is the deeply moving "The Loving Gift" by Kristofferson. This delicate tender song is about as fine an example of a perfect country love song as you can find and I believe it's the best thing the duo ever did. It had the misfortunate of being released as a single when lurid sex songs like "You've Never Been This Far Before" were the rage on country radio and this tale of true love didn't quite fit in and was only a minor hit for them but it's a musical masterpiece.
The duets with June were the Man in Black's ventures into Technicolor, love, and beauty. Johnny Cash always seems far happier when June was by his side (check out that beaming cover photo). Their love is all over the performances here.