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Track Listings
| 1. The Man Comes Around |
| 2. Hurt |
| 3. Give My Love To Rose |
| 4. Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| 5. I Hung My Head |
| 6. First Time I Ever Saw Your Face |
| 7. Personal Jesus |
| 8. In My Life |
| 9. Sam Hall |
| 10. Danny Boy |
| 11. Desperado |
| 12. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry |
| 13. Tear Stained Letter |
| 14. Streets Of Laredo |
| 15. We'll Meet Again |
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This was to be the last record Johnny Cash released in his lifetime, and it is a fitting finale to his illustrious career.
In the last few years of life he had enjoyed an artistic, critical and popular renaissance with the American series of albums, recorded with producer Rick Rubin. Each was very different to the others, but all were sympathetic to Cash's style and mood, and drew the best from the great man.
This fourth entry in the series is made all the more moving by the knowledge that it turned out to be Cash's last. There is a feeling that in these songs Cash is either looking back over his life, or peering over the approaching boundary, and telling us of what he could discern of the other side. There is a feeling of spirituality about the powerful opener `The Man Comes Around', almost a joyous looking forward to meeting the big fella himself. The second track, `Hurt', is a blowaway performance that just knocks me sideways. It is a song so laden with regret for the people he had hurt in his tempestuous life. The singing is just so packed with raw emotion it really makes you sit up and listen. The rest of the album has a slower tone, and Cash's poor health starts to show in his failing voice, especially on slower tracks such as `Danny Boy'. There is a grim humour to his reworking of the gallows tale `Sam Hall', and the closer, `We'll Meet Again', presumably sung for his recently deceased wife June Carter Cash, is a slow, heartfelt rendition that will bring a lump to the throat. It's a fine song to end his last album with, and hopefully in the next life we'll hear Johnny Cash again.
Five stars, this is an essential album.
In the last few years of life he had enjoyed an artistic, critical and popular renaissance with the American series of albums, recorded with producer Rick Rubin. Each was very different to the others, but all were sympathetic to Cash's style and mood, and drew the best from the great man.
This fourth entry in the series is made all the more moving by the knowledge that it turned out to be Cash's last. There is a feeling that in these songs Cash is either looking back over his life, or peering over the approaching boundary, and telling us of what he could discern of the other side. There is a feeling of spirituality about the powerful opener `The Man Comes Around', almost a joyous looking forward to meeting the big fella himself. The second track, `Hurt', is a blowaway performance that just knocks me sideways. It is a song so laden with regret for the people he had hurt in his tempestuous life. The singing is just so packed with raw emotion it really makes you sit up and listen. The rest of the album has a slower tone, and Cash's poor health starts to show in his failing voice, especially on slower tracks such as `Danny Boy'. There is a grim humour to his reworking of the gallows tale `Sam Hall', and the closer, `We'll Meet Again', presumably sung for his recently deceased wife June Carter Cash, is a slow, heartfelt rendition that will bring a lump to the throat. It's a fine song to end his last album with, and hopefully in the next life we'll hear Johnny Cash again.
Five stars, this is an essential album.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
So much of this album deals with one man's journey towards the inevitable. That's what make this album so fantastically moving. An epitaph in song. The Best of Cash, in my opinion.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
One of the best selection of songs from a man who must always be viewed as one of the best American singers of his generation.
Iam not a great country fan but Johnny's voice on this collection of songs is fantastic, and knowing that that it wasnt long before he was reunited with his June makes this even more bittersweet.
And Hurt has to be one of the best cover versions that i have ever heard.
The video always makes me shed a tear.
Iam not a great country fan but Johnny's voice on this collection of songs is fantastic, and knowing that that it wasnt long before he was reunited with his June makes this even more bittersweet.
And Hurt has to be one of the best cover versions that i have ever heard.
The video always makes me shed a tear.
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vintage cash
Songs old and new given the gravelly voice treatment and emotion that charectorises Cashs later work. Read more
Published 1 month ago by fishface
The Man Comes Around
Yet another fine production of this fantastic singer/song writers talent.He is , and will be, sorely missed by many. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Fly Fisher
THANK YOU MR CASH
I BOUGHT THIS CD FOR ONE TRACK, "HURT", AND WHAT A SURPRISE IT HAD IN STORE. JOHNNY SINGS SO MANY SONGS AS WELL AS HE EVER COULD. Read more
Published 3 months ago by ROBIN
Sad songs
Bought this for my husband. He likes it although the songs are very sad but as it was Cash's last CD, I think, it is very poignant.
Published 4 months ago by Jenny
Superb
I love Cash's later work and this album is superb. A mix of original work and covers makes it seem a little disjointed, but great nonetheless. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. R. Holden
A legend signs off
At times touching, at times surprising, but a great last album from a man who always did things his own way. The voice is frail but unmistakeably Johnny. Read more
Published 6 months ago by wightal
Listen to with caution
This is the saddest piece of music I have ever heard, at times it boarders on misery. If you plan to listen to it in one go make sure there are no sharps, pills or rope in the... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Sue P
Instant top-ten favourite
Like many people, my introduction was the wonderful Cash version of 'hurt'. It's so good I had to get the album, and am I glad I did. Read more
Published 8 months ago by funkykingston
Amazing album
Great from start to finish. I would rate this as the best album of his latter years, song after song of wonderful sounds.
Published 9 months ago by G. Buchanan
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