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Johnny Cash - The Legend Of Johnny Cash: Volume II Audio CD

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Title: The Legend Of Johnny Cash: Volume II
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Release Date: 2007-08-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: There You Go 2: Home of the Blues 3: Ballad of a Teenage Queen 4: Ways of a Woman in Love 5: I Still Miss Someone 6: Don't Take Your Guns to Town 7: Long Black Veil 8: Ballad of Ira Hayes 9: It Ain't Me Babe - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash 10: Girl from the North Country - Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan 11: Daddy Sang Bass 12: Flesh and Blood 13: Night Hank Williams Came to Town - Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings 14: That Old Wheel - Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Jr. 15: Beast in Me 16: Unchained 17: I Won't Back Down 18: I Hung My Head 19: Bird on a Wire [Live] 20: In the Sweet By and By

Does it get better than this?
No it didn't get the hype that the Volume 1 got for sure, but it is equally amazing if not better. The fans of Johnny Cash that have not picked up this CD are really missing the boat. Tracks like That Old Wheel jump out as VINTAGE Cash. Also the pain and beauty of the Rick Rubin productions just shine on this CD.
Even if you arent a Cash fan. . . I can't imagine not 'getting' what this CD is saying. . . it is brilliant!.


Well selected career-spanning single disc
Both offer up seminal Cash sides, from his early days at Sun through his golden years at Columbia, his stay at Mercury in the '80s and his career capping sides for American. This 20-track collection is a good follow-up to last year's volume one. Both volumes also sandwich themselves in the narrow space between single-disc hit collections and deeper anthologies like 1992 and 2002's "Essential" titles, 2000's thematic "Love, God, Murder," 2005's 4-disc "The Legend," or Bear Family's oppressive triple-shot of box sets.

Both single-disc "Legend" volumes sample from the entire length of Cash's career, which means that they necessarily short-change any one phase, and leave out some seminal album releases. What you get instead is a sketch - rather than a full-color picture - of Cash's artistic arc, from slap-back echo at Sun through his righteous songs of the man in black, and finishing with stark, folk-styled renditions recorded with Rick Rubin for the American label.

Cash's fans may find this selection of tracks to be scattershot, duplicative of discs they already own, or unrepresentative of their particular favorites. But fans with deep Cash collections aren't the audience for this release. Instead, the songs have been selected and sequenced to make a compelling spin for new converts, those inspired by Cash's passing and subsequent biopic. And for these new fans, the Legend discs provide a good introduction to Cash's vast catalog that provides a bird's eye view from which to zoom in on specific eras or styles. [©2006 hyperbolium dot com].


"The Legend Of Johnny Cash, Vol. 2" is brilliant!
2" is brilliant! This is an brilliant companion to Volume 1, with equally impressive songs. "The Legend Of Johnny Cash, Vol.

Track Listing
1. There You Go
2. Home of the Blues
3. Ballad of a Teenage Queen
4. Ways of a Woman in Love
5. I Still Miss Someone
6. Don't Take Your Guns to Town
7. Long Black Veil
8. Ballad of Ira Hayes
9. It Ain't Me Babe - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
10. Girl from the North Country - Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan
11. Daddy Sang Bass
12. Flesh and Blood
13. Night Hank Williams Came to Town - Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings
14. That Old Wheel - Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Jr.
15. Beast in Me
16. Unchained
17. I Won't Back Down
18. I Hung My Head
19. Bird on a Wire [Live]
20. In the Sweet By and By.


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