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Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash - Love, God, Murder Audio CD

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Johnny Cash Band: Johnny Cash
Title: Johnny Cash - Love, God, Murder
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Release Date: 2000-05-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Walk the Line 2: Oh, What a Dream 3: All Over Again 4: Little at a Time 5: My Old Faded Rose 6: Happiness Is You 7: Flesh and Blood 8: I Tremble for You 9: I Feel Better All Over 10: 'Cause I Love You 11: Ballad of Barbara 12: Ring of Fire 13: My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You 14: While I've Got It on My Mind 15: I Still Miss Someone 16: One Rose (That's Left in My Heart) 17: What on Earth Will You Do (For Heaven's Sake) 18: My God is Real 19: It Was Jesus 20: Why Me Lord? 21: Greatest Cowboy of Them All 22: Redemption 23: Great Speckled Bird 24: Old Account 25: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 26: When He Comes 27: Kneeling Drunkard's Plea 28: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? 29: Man in White 30: Belshazzar 31: Oh, Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer) 32: Oh Come, Angel Band 33: Folsom Prison Blues 34: Delia's Gone 35: Mr. Garfield 36: Orleans Parish Prison 37: When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below) 38: Sound of Laughter 39: Cocaine Blues 40: Hardin Wouldn't Run 41: Long Black Veil 42: Austin Prison 43: Joe Bean 44: Going to Memphis 45: Don't Take Your Guns to Town 46: Highway Patrolman 47: Jacob Green 48: Wall

God is Great, But the God disc not quite so much
Murder stands out from the pack for me, while his God songs don't have quite the same quality in depth for me. But it is a great collection, thoughtfully and attractively packaged.


Love the Man in Black
But I love all of Johnny's music. I don't understand why these three CDs didn't have the Life Cd included in the set. Haven't heard a bad one yet and I hav A LOT of Johnny, June, the Highwaymen and I'm currently building on my Rosanne collection. She's the one who inhereted "the gift".


Not your average compilation
I'm not sure if the reviewer is aware of this or not, but these discs weren't just slapped together by the record label - Cash hand-picked these himself. I must disagree with the reviewer who asserts that the themed discs fail to cohere. It's not a best-of collection in the strictest sense. It's Johnny Cash's personal favorites on three of the dominant themes of his oeuvre. In that sense, the song selection is extremely interesting. We may never know why every specific song was included here, but suffice it to say they each carry a special significance for Cash.

As for the recording quality, I found this collection to be quite acceptable. One reviewer complains that the tracks are mono records with little remastering. Remastering is most helpful when cleaning up old and damaged recordings. To create a stereo mix out of monaural source material is, to me at least, akin to the hideous colorization of black and white films. The recording sounds of the day are part of the music's charm.

My one criticism concerns the "essays" included. They consist of one liner note page each. They feel like an afterthought with nothing very substantial. I was hoping for some interesting commentary on Cash's work, but that was in short supply.

I have personally enjoyed this collection very much. All the more so because it is a collection that Cash wanted to represent himself. It may not flow as nicely as some of the other collections and there may not be exceedingly obvious connections between songs, but it has Cash's personal touch and in that respect, it's amongst my favorite Cash collections.

Highly recommended to those familiar and those new to the man in black.


Great themed release
Themed discs , 1 for songs of love , 1 for songs of God , and 1 for songs of murder. Just like the title says. Great to listen to individually , but for real fun I put the 3 discs on shuffle. . . . . Makes for some interesting song to song sequences!.


Want to know Cash? Buy this!
Cash and this covers a lot of ground. I am a long time fan of Mr. A great mix of songs from throughout his impressive history. He was a gifted, half crazy, great American artist and this shows it all. If you are new to Cash this is a great one to start with and it's also a great collection for long time fans like me.
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