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The Man in Black: His Greatest
Hits
A more affordable alternative to the
three-CD Essential package, The Man in Black is a well-chosen,
double-disc collection that includes a good number of his highlights,
but leaves behind the accoutrements of the box set (no liner
notes, discographical info, and so on). On the other hand, it
includes various cuts--duets with Dylan, Kristofferson, and the
Highwaymen for example--that Essential leaves off, although Essential
does a more-thorough job of sampling the Sun years and the prison
records. As a summary of Johnny Cash's many frames of mind, this
compilation is not a bad place to start at all. --Marc Greilsamer |
Customer review from Amazon
Reviewer: pspa from Boston, MA USA
This magnificent 2 CD set would almost be worth the price just
for the immortal words at the beginning of the first track, Hello,
I'm Johnny Cash, which of course is how he began his famous concert
at Folsom Prison, with an extraordinary version of Folsom Prison
Blues that is even better than the original. The great songs
are here: I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Big River, Sunday Morning
Coming Down, Jackson, and there is so much more, including a
remarkable duet with none other than Bob Dylan, and a couple
of tracks with Waylon Jennings. The distinctive, macho, voice
of Cash and his guitar strumming are American institutions, and
I maintain that noone in country music has ever topped him |
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