Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
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Artist: Johnny CashBrand: CASH,JOHNNY
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-11-05
Music Label: Lost Highway
Soundtracks:
- The Man Comes Around
- Hurt
- Give My Love To Rose
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- I Hung My Head
- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- Personal Jesus
- In My Life
- Sam Hall
- Danny Boy
- Desperado
- I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
- Tear Stained Letter
- Streets of Laredo
- We'll Meet Again
Free Music Notes for American IV: The Man Comes Around
Free Music Review: "The hairs on your arm will stand up...."
Hit: 5 Stars
"There's a man coming around taking names...the hairs on your arm will stand up...." So begins the title track of Johnny Cash's last released album, before his death last month. Prophetic, apocalyptic, and staring death in the eye...Cash delivers a profoundly moving farewell. His American Recordings series, produced by Rick Rubin, has been a triumph, returning Johnny Cash to his bare-bones hardscrabble country roots. Yet, the spare instrumentation provides Cash space to dig deep into each song, bringing a richness and poignancy that is as deeply affecting as a thousand symphony orchestras . His voice on AMERICAN IV-by turns rumbly, trembly, growly, stately, and even pleading-is the voice of Everyman...conversely, if Mount Rushmore could sing, it would sound like Johnny Cash. It should be noted that Johnny is backed by some amazing musicians, including Marty Stuart, Billy Preston, and members of The Heartbreakers. Opening up the CD is Cash's own song, "The Man Comes Around," which is a chilling meditation on the Biblical Book of Revelation, and Cash sings it as though he is giving a personal eyewitness narrative. And, in many ways, he is qualified, having been to hell and back more than once in his life, which gives the anti-drug "Hurt" a special resonance. The author of "Hurt," Trent Reznor, said that he literally stopped and wept when he saw Cash's video presentation of the song...he called it a highlight of his life. One would imagine that any author would feel the same way, no matter how prestigious or notable the author. Johnny next sings a re-make of his own classic "Give My Love to Rose," a heartbreaking prison ballad that takes on added emotion and depth in this new recording. Then, coming from "way out in Left Field" is Paul Simon's standard, "Bridge Over Troubled Water," featuring the vocals of Fiona Apple and a strange lovely mellotron. You have to hear it to believe it; and the end result is surprisingly beautiful. After listening to "I Hung My Head," a tragic tale of accidental death, I was shocked to discover that the author of the song was none other than Sting...it certainly sounds like vintage Cash, and Johnny absolutely makes the song his own. Rarely has personal love been expressed in a more intimate or vulnerable way than when Johnny sings "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face," and you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is singing it straight to June. Next up is a curious choice: "Personal Jesus," which was written and recorded by the new wave synth band Depeche Mode more than a decade ago...Cash turns it into a biting, sarcastic indictment of wolves in sheep's clothing who prey on the innocent behind a façade of religion. The Lennon/McCartney ballad, "In My Life," fits Johnny to a "T"...the acoustic melody washing over Johnny's warm vocals. But, this being a Johnny Cash record, he doesn't want things becoming too warm and cuddly, so he presents-how can I say this-a very funny, wry murder/execution song called "Sam Hall." He portrays Sam as a mean-spirited, hateful, frustrated villain. Here is Cash at his most feisty and ornery, but you can almost hear the twinkle in his eyes as he sings Sam's cursing and raving. Having taken the listener on a wild ride thus far, Cash next leaps over to Ireland for a hymn-like rendition of "Danny Boy," which is sung with great tenderness, without a trace of irony or cynicism. Then...how about the Eagles? Why not? Johnny Cash sings "Desperado" as a personal testimonial...here is another character that Mr. Cash knows all too well. And Hank Williams, Sr. could have been writing about certain seasons of Johnny's life when he composed "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," and Johnny seizes upon those memories as he effectively covers this song in a duet with Nick Cave...no stranger to dark nights himself. "Tear-Stained Letter" is a very dark song of lost love, so of course then, the music and arrangement is sprightly and upbeat...a good thing, because if the music matched the lyrics, it might be unbearably sad. This album, having long passed the plateau of "epic achievement," continues with the dying cowboy ballad, "Streets of Laredo"-Johnny sings the cowboy's funeral instructions, even as he was no doubt contemplating his own. And is it morbid? Not for a second...it's a fitting tribute to every "young cowboy" who died before his time. And just when it seems Johnny's heart-and yours-can bear no more, Johnny goes all jaunty on us for the closer: "We'll Meet Again." Doggone if he doesn't bring out clarinet and dobro and "The Whole Cash Gang" for a hopeful, almost whimsical sing-along about death and dying, that is highlighted by Johnny's touching spoken-word affirmation: "So honey, keep smiling through, just like you always do, `til the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away." And then, Johnny went out...he went onward and upward to a better place...singing this song.
American IV: The Man Comes Around Poster
This is the fourth in a series of collaborations between the original Man in Black, Johnny Cash, and producer Rick Rubin. The Man Comes Around features new Cash compositions as well as a diverse array of cover songs, including Nine Inch Nails' ""Hur"t,"" Hank Williams' ""I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry,"" and Paul Simon's ""Bridge Over Troubled Waters."" He duets with Don Henley on ""Desperado.""No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: CASH,JOHNNY
Title: MAN COMES AROUND
Street Release Date: 11/05/2002
Genre: COUNTRY
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