Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.8 / 5.0

His best.:

Unchained is the best title ever for this CD. It is infact unchained, and the good, old raw Cash that we've all come to love over the many years of his amazing career.

If this is the last record Cash puts out, he can consider his career a prosper one.

1. ROWBOAT -- An enjoyable song with wonderful vocals. 2. SEA OF HEARTBREAK -- See Rowboat. 3. RUSTY CAGE -- This is the kind of Cash song that hooked me him. About being free, and being a "rebel". 4. THE ONE ROSE (That's Left In My Heart) 5. COUNTRY BOY... more info

This is Cash's Led Zep IIII:

Before the marginally talented Garth Brooks became a boy wonder who could do no wrong, Johnny Cash ruled (his early 70s variety show was a top ten television hit). Fortunately or unfortunately, Cash doesn't look good in a tight pair of jeans, which is why he hasn't been on the radio ever since they dropped the "and Western" from Country and Country artists started writing pop songs and began hiring guitar players from washed up 80s metal acts. As a result, Cash has become an ironic alternative icon. Well,... more info

Unpolished, but that's the point:

This was the first of the Johnny Cash/Rick Rubin collaborations I discovered (although it's actually the second of the four released), and it's probably the best top-to-bottom (although my single favorite track in the series is the cover of "Hurt" on American Recordings IV). Unchained is more "produced" than the original AR release, but still gloriously unpolished. Up and down the song list, it's easy to see why Cash is as popular among bluesy rockers as among the country crowd.

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Tracks:

1. ROWBOAT
2. SEA OF HEARTBREAK
3. RUSTY CAGE
4. THE ONE ROSE (That's Left In My Heart)
5. COUNTRY BOY
6. MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THIS
7. SPIRITUAL
8. THE KNEELING DRUNKARD'S PLEA
9. SOUTHERN ACCENTS
10. MEAN EYED CAT
11. MEET ME IN HEAVEN
12. I NEVER PICKED COTTON
13. UNCHAINED
14. I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE

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