Johnny Cash - American Recordings
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Free Music Review: But this CD!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an amazing collectino of songs and shows the reason why everyone loves Cash.Free Music Review: Cash does it again, and again and again...
Hit: 5 Stars
I suppose there is no need to write another review for a disc originally released over 13 years ago. Considering there have been over 90 reviews of this, the first American Recordings collaboration between Rubin and Cash, it seems a waste of time to write another.
With this in mind, much like the minimalist approach to this album, I will do the same with this review. This is simply among the very best albums of any genre, any era since the birth of rock and roll. Nowhere can you find a combination of haunting lyrics with a voice to match and a producer willing to keep his fingers off the controls.
It doesn't matter if you are a punk, emo, stoner, hippie, country fan, metalhead, death metal freak or a soccer mom. This is one of the few pieces of American music that can stand the test of time and truly reach any audience. Get this record!!!
Free Music Review: Of course.
Hit: 5 Stars
It's Johnny Cash, of course it gets 5 stars. Great collection from the Mater.Free Music Review: The Master's Comeback
Hit: 5 Stars
This was the Man in Black's comeback album and it showed the world he was not done yet by a long shot. It introduced a whole new generation to his style of and method of music, and also got that new generation to discover his older works. No Cash collection is complete without this album.Free Music Review: classic americana.
Hit: 5 Stars
1994, the start of something great: johnny cash's association with producer rick rubin. "american recordings," the 1st album in an amazing series is a masterpiece. just mr cash's stunning voice accompanied by a lone acoustic guitar. stark and beautiful, through and through. though mr cash has always been associated with country and western music (at least in my mind), this is american folk music, at a pinnacle of quality seldom grasped. things start off with a sunny little murder ballad, "delia's gone." she was a low-down trifling gal, so she had to die. and most of the songs that follow plumb the depths and explore the wreckage of america's dark-side. the dark parts of a man's soul. "the beast in me," is a bare, no frills tune about the singer's bad side. mr cash sings hauntingly and beautifully over a simple pattern of softly plucked notes on the guitar. it's one of this great albums many highlights. "drive on," is a fantastic vietnam veteran song, and is another highlight. the tim hardin classic, "bird on a wire," has never been better done than here. not to my knowledge. things begin to lighten a bit with track nine, a humorous live recording about some courtship and love, circa 1825, with a happy ending. the closing song is also a live track, "the man who couldn't cry," and another stab at humor that works very fine. this whole album is just a stunning piece of work. one of the best folk albums that i've ever heard. i rank it up there with my very favorite folk recording: jody stecher's "oh the wind and rain." these are both albums that no american music lover should miss. and life is fragile. who knows? an asteroid might hit the earth at any moment. i hear that we're due for such a thing. so get this music quick. don't die without having had the experience of hearing this.