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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.8 / 5.0

Excellent Retrospective:

Johnny Cash was an American music icon known to the world as the "Man in Black." His booming deep bass voice is surely one of the most recognizable in country music history. While his vocal range was fairly limited, it was incredibly effective at conveying the plight of the common man. As befits a legend, there are several Cash collections available. This double disc is my favorite because it captures nearly all of the highlights of Cash's recording career between 1955 and 1993 (since then he put out four... more info

2-CD best-of revisits familiar territory:

Though there have been several anthologies summarizing the better known material from Cash's nearly fifty-year recording career, the bulk of his work has been unavailable on domestic CD. Columbia's year-long reissue program, celebrating Cash's seventieth birthday, kicks off with this double-disc, thirty-six track overview that abbreviates 1992's seventy-five song, triple-disc box, "The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983," and adds a few choice alternate selections.

Like its big-brother, the new set spans... more info

A Primer:

This collection might more aptly be called "The Beginner's Guide to Johnny Cash". The hits are here, but in my opinion, the "Essential" Johnny Cash would encompass all of his recorded works. Cash was a musical titan when he started, and kept getting better until the day he died. He always challenged himself and his audience with new music, and his vast catalog deserves to be entirely remastered with the care taken in this collection, and re-issued to a new generation.
If you don't know much about Cash's... more info

Tracks:

1. Hey Porter
2. Cry, Cry, Cry
3. I Walk The Line
4. Get Rhythm
5. There You Go
6. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
7. Big River
8. Guess Things Happen That Way
9. All Over Again
10. Don't Take Your Guns To Town
11. Five Feet High And Rising
12. The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
13. Tennessee Flat-Top Box
14. I Still Miss Someone
15. Ring Of Fire
16. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes

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