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Ring Of Fire: The Legend Of Johnny Cash

~ Johnny Cash
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (21 Nov 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Island/American/Columbia/Legacy
  • ASIN: B000BW9UJY
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 458 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Ring Of Fire
2. I Walk The Line
3. Jackson - Johnny Cash, June Carter
4. Folsom Prison Blues
5. A Boy Named Sue
6. Big River
7. Get Rhythm
8. Cry! Cry! Cry!
9. Hey Porter
10. A Thing Called Love
11. Guess Things Happen That Way
12. San Quentin
13. Man In Black
14. Highwayman - Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson
15. The Wanderer - U2, Johnny Cash
16. I've Been Everywhere
17. Rusty Cage
18. Personal Jesus
19. Give My Love To Rose
20. One
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The first ever definitive best of Johnny Cash, covering his whole career over five decades. From modest country beginnings in the mid-'50s to his death in 2003, the Man In Black became a legend. One of those rare artists that transcended his chosen musical genre to be an icon for generations of musicians.

This album collects tracks from his early Sun Records days through to his defining era at Columbia Records to his last recordings, the famed and critically acclaimed American Recordings.
The packaging features comprehensive sleeve notes and biography from US music writer Rich Kienzle and exclusive photographs from throughout Cash's career.



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'The Legend Of Johnny Cash' is a career-spanning collectionof tracks by one of the greatest songwriters of all time. With his distinctive voice and black attire, Cash cast a tallshadow over popular music for over forty years, making someof the finest records of all time in the process, many of which feature on this compilation. Includes the tracks 'Ring Of Fire', 'I Walk The Line' and 'Hurt'.

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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 5 Nov 2006
By Spider Monkey (UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a great place to start if you're new to Cash. You have all his early hits, as well as his later output, including some great covers (U2's One and soundgardens rusty cage). If you like this you can then move on to the prison albums and wherever else takes your fancy. You get a short essay in the booklet and you are told where each song came from so you can find specific albums to go deeper into this great music. well worth a try.
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Faultless., 2 Dec 2006
By dynamitekid156 "dynamitekid156" (Notts) - See all my reviews
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This album could serve very easily as an introduction to Johnny Cash, far better than the same year's cringe-inducing (and cringe-inducingly titled) The Legend Lives On or the myriad repackaged Sun recordings. Gathering songs from Sun, Columbia, American and Mercury on one compilation, this disc covers all bases.

However, the only real problem - which to be fair is a bit of a big one - with this disc is its length. At just over an hour, this single-disc collection is a woeful under-representation of the fifty-year career of this legendary country star.

Luckily, this serves as an advantage in that there is not a single ounce of fat on this record; every song is utterly brilliant, despite the odd omission of anything from the first American album (1994). You get a sample of all stages of his career; the peerless title track's mariachi horns indicate his relationship with June Carter; 'Folsom Prison Blues,' one of his defining songs, resplendent in its classic Sun-records production, laden with echo; 'Highwayman,' his supergroup with Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson; the curio 'The Wanderer' (amusingly, one of two U2-penned songs on this Cash compilation) from that band's Zooropa album; and, of course, some fantastic songs from the American recordings.

While by no means the definitive Johnny Cash, this is a perfect way in for any budding Johnny Cash fan.
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62 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, 13 Mar 2006
Like many others, I only recently discovered Johnny Cash having seen the film "Walk the Line". Better late than never.

I can't remember the last time I listened with such undivided concentration to a CD. There's something about Johnny Cash's song-writing and his delivery that is just hypnotic. You find yourself really listening to the words. The cover versions of U2's One and Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus are among the best covers I've heard for any song in any style (and I'm a huge DM fan).
The last track, "Hurt", is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, recorded in Cash's home studio when he was already terminally ill. The frailty in his voice makes you realise that every word in the song is true.

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5.0 out of 5 stars ring of fire review
What a great album! i wasn't really into johnny cash until i saw his biography on tv, then i decided to buy this album. now i don't stop listening to it! well worth it.
Published 2 months ago by Mr. D. C. Brown

5.0 out of 5 stars great compilation
I bought this after watching a TV documentary on Cash's life. It contains all the best songs - recommended.
Published 4 months ago by Happy Hilly

4.0 out of 5 stars Good cross-section
This is a good collection of the well known and best remembered songs from Johnny Cash, ideal for the fan who justs wants a good all-round selection of his work. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mrs Sheila Miles

5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute joy
21 songs from pretty much every era in the career of the "Man in Black". From the sheer exuberance of "Ring of Fire" to the haunting melancholy of "Hurt" via the anarchy of the... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Emanon

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent collection
Having watched a very good documentary on Johnny Cash recently, I decided to buy a best of compilation. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. A. Whiteside

5.0 out of 5 stars Stand Aside,Johnny Cash Coming Through !
In the last 50 years of music there have been very few greater artists than Johnny Cash.
I have already tried to do him & his work justice in a review of his 1994... Read more
Published 6 months ago by J. Thompson

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Excellent product, all my favourite songs and few more.

Great purchase, ordered it for next day delivery as I was going for a long journey and wanted some Johnny Cash... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Moaning Myrtle

5.0 out of 5 stars Cash...Priceless.
I bought this album because I like a lot of the songs on the album and just wanted a general overview of Cash's career. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Guitar Heroine

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of Johnny Cash captured on one CD
At first I was skeptical of the whole Johnny Cash is a great musician/songwriter, and thought it was oldie country music for the oldies to reminisce about, and say how they never... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Biffa

5.0 out of 5 stars True Legend
This is a great intro to new fans of Johnny Cash, a true icon whose music covered several generations. Read more
Published 14 months ago by tallpete33

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