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Johnny Cash - My Mother's Hymn Book Audio CD

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Johnny Cash Band: Johnny Cash
Title: My Mother's Hymn Book
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Release Date: 2004-04-06
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Where We'll Never Grow Old 2: I Shall Not Be Moved 3: I Am a Pilgrim 4: Do Lord 5: When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder 6: If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven 7: I'll Fly Away 8: Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies 9: Let the Lower Lights Be Running 10: When He Reached Down 11: In the Sweet By and By 12: I'm Bound for the Promised Land 13: In the Garden 14: Softly and Tenderly 15: Just as I Am

Great album
If you do not like Johnny Cash you will not like this album. I bought this as a gift for my mother and she loves the old hymns. I know self proclaimed atheists who own and love this album. .


An essential album for believers
Recently I have begun singing these hymns with this CD every night before putting my son to bed. I have very much enjoyed listening to this album for the last several years and it uplifts me every time I hear Cash singing these beautiful hymns. I intend to have him remember the passion and beauty of these songs based on hearing Cash's renditions for the rest of his life as his precious childhood memories. Thanks Johnny.


One of Johnny Cash's Best Albums of His Entire Career!
MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK is easily his best album of Gospel tunes that is still in print and still readily available on CD, recorded and released all at once, (not part of any compilation album). Johnny Cash has released many Gospel albums and compilations during his half century career.

MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK by Johnny Cash is a great album to listen to, whether you like Johnny Cash, or Gospel music, or both. The quiet, voice and acoustic guitar only sparseness seems very personal and expressive. Cash loved doing Gospel music, and you can tell that his heart and soul is in this album of beloved church songs which he learned as a child, literally learning them out of the library of songs in his mother's well worn book of hymns.

MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK is calm and quiet listening that is great for calm and quiet Sunday afternoons and contemplation. The musical performances are good to great, and so is the lyrical content.

The b/w CD booklet has personal comments written by Johnny Cash for every song on this album, so that is very interesting.

At the AMERICAN record label, they often had Johnny Cash record tons of music very cheaply and economically, by just recording him singing and strumming his guitar, without any added instruments nor other musicians. MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK is the best and most consistent of the albums recorded and released this way. His last album of newly recorded music, 100 HIGHWAYS is pretty much entirely in the same performance format, but is not mostly Gospel in content, though it is very interesting as his last recordings. American V: A Hundred Highways

GOSPEL GLORY by Johnny Cash is my single favorite Gospel compilation by Johnny Cash, because of the high percentage of famous Christian standards that sound very contemporary in their recording style. Gospel Glory

But GOSPEL GLORY can be topped by the Johnny Cash Gospel compilation CD called JUST AS I AM, which contains all but one of the recordings on GOSPEL GLORY, and then also doubles the song count with other Gospel songs from his career. Just as I Am

CASH: ULTIMATE GOSPEL is a recent 2007 remastering and round up of many rare and out of print Gospel tunes by Johnny! It is almost as good as JUST AS I AM. The fresh remastering of a 2007 re-release makes many of the oldest recordings sound fresh again, and much more enjoyable than the same recordings which appeared on earlier CDs released in the 1990's and earlier. A great CD! Cash: Ultimate Gospel

PERSONAL FILE is a two CD pack of which disc 2 is entirely Gospel tunes, almost as good as MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK. It is a compilation of "lost" rehearsal tapes of Johnny just singing and strumming his guitar, just like on MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK. The singing is stronger and the guitar playing is a bit more lively, but the songs are not quite as strong as the selections of MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK. Personal File

And don't forget to check out Johnny Cash's reading of the entire NEW TESTAMENT on CD, which is very fun for any Johnny Cash listeners and/or Bible lovers! The last CD in the set is just Johnny Cash reading the Book of Revelation in its entirety, as if it is a CD album all by itself! Cool stuff and very inspirational! Johnny Cash Reads the Complete New Testament: Collector's Edition.


My Mother's Hymn Book - - Johnny Cash
Thanks was the one I was looking for.


What The Man in Black was meant to be
Just his guitar playing, his voice, and a great selection of songs make this a must have. Finally, Johnny Cash finds what he was meant to be. Johnny was a legend and this is his album, what he wanted to do all of his life. Buy this it is wonderful.


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