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Johnny Cash Remixed

Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash Remixed Audio CD

A fair review of the Johnny Cash "Johnny Cash Remixed" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Johnny Cash reviews here, or go back to the Johnny Cash tabs.

Band: Johnny Cash
Title: Johnny Cash Remixed
Rating:

Release Date: 2009-01-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Big River [Count de Money Remix] 2: Country Boy [Sonny J Remix] 3: I Walk the Line [QDT Muzic Remix] 4: Doin' My Time [The Heavy Remix] 5: Leave That Junk Alone [Alabama 3 Remix] 6: Port of Lonely Hearts [Midnight Juggernauts Remix] 7: Folsom Prison Blues [Pete Rock Remix] 8: Straigh A's in Love [Troublemaker Remix] 9: Sugartime [Kennedy Remix] 10: Rock Island Line [Wolf Remix] 11: Belshazzar [MacHine Drum Remix] 12: I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow [Apparat Remix] 13: Wide Open Road [Count de Money Remix] - 14: Trail to Mexico [Mexican Institute of Sound Remix] 15: Hey Porter [Mocean Worker Remix] 16: Katy Too [DJ Enjay Remix] - Johnny Cash, Snoop Dogg 17: My Treasure [J. Scott G Remix] 18: Johnny Cash Remixed: Documentary [DVD]

good, not great, different...TRUE Cash fans appreciate.
Johnny Cash was always pushing boundaries with music and always appreciated the views of artists to express themselves as freely as they wanted. I bought this album after I heard a similar remix of walk the line techno remix by dj wolf(?). If these artists wanted to honor Mr. Cash by remixing his sounds to the beats of their sounds I have to think that a man who fought so honestly for this type of thing in HIS day would appreciate it in THEIR day. Its not a disgrace to his music its an homage to the way that his music influences still to this day. All the so-called Johnny Cash fans rant and rave about how this is a disgrace and a terrible idea and they can't believe how a true Cash fan would like this or even call this music. Well you have taken a beautiful idea of the freedom of the artist(something that Cash and Waylon fans can truly appreciate) and turned it around just to make music expression as a whole so narrow minded. This CD is good. . . not great. I am not a fan of techno or remixes. . however I think that TRUE Cash fans and TRUE music fans would enjoy at least a listen.

Oh, the purists....
He adopted the same philosophy of another music great, Duke Ellington, who said:

"There are two kinds of music. The great Johnny Cash proved in his lifetime to be more open minded than his fans. Good music, and the other kind".

Cash took songs from Trent Reznor, Depeche Mode, Roberta Flack, and interpreted them his way. It is only fair that other artists render tribute to Cash by playing his songs as well. Get over it, people.

Awful
S. Total B. , just an awful idea - why? Just to make more money with the legend? I hate it.

I enjoyed it!!
I went into this with an open mind,and was just as happy going out as I was going in. I'm really not sure why people have such negative reviews about this project. I find myself playing it over and over. Here's why:
#1--Johnny Cash Rules.
#2--Original Vocals by Johnny Cash
#3--Luther Perkins(My Hero)on guitar.
#4--Marshall Grant(Bass)--although he's somewhat muted here.
#5--This is a tribute---not a mashing. Good DVD included.
It's just something fun to listen to,nothing more,nothing less.
Crank Up "Big River". . . it has the beat that I felt was always there anyway. . . . Awesome!!!
I really enjoyed "Straght A's in Love"--one of my personal favorites. Souped up and scratchin'!!
If you like hip/hop(which I don't)or modern music(which I don't),let Johhny Cash bridge the gap. . . . . . . . amazingly,it all works. I love it!!!
Maybe Jerry Lee,Roy Orbison,Carl Perkins. . . will be next??Let's hope so!!
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The highly controversial Johnny Cash Remixed is worth a listen.
Since our musical tastes vary widely (dance, blues, hip hop, classic rock, punk, rockabilly, country, Motown, Stax,. Hubby and I are huge Johnny Cash fans, and there has been much heated discussion in our house about this newly released collection of classic Johnny Cash songs remixed by artists such as Alabama 3 (think Sopranos theme), Count de Money, Snoop Dogg's new QDT team, and Pete Rock. . . . ) but we tend to like "original" sound, we really weren't sure about this. I decided to refrain from looking at any reviews until we had listened to the CD and watched the "making of" video which is also available at the Johnny Cash Remixed website.

The project was Executive Produced by John Carter Cash (Johnny and June's son), Snoop Dogg, and Mathew Knowles (Beyonc�'s father), so there is some real music pedigree and blood connection to the original music in this work, which was conceived as a way of bringing some of Cash's seminal music to a wider audience. As my husband is a Southerner born and bred and LOVES Johnny Cash I let him listen first. His response was that I "had to listen to it" because it "managed to be respectful to Cash's music while still interesting in a contemporary way. "

So I listened, and then listened again and again. And while I found some of the new mixes tiresome (Snoop Dogg's conversational remix of "I Walk the Line" is a bit too forced and overdone while Kennedy's "Sugartime" sounds like a bad repetitive commercial jingle), I generally enjoyed the plays on classic country blues. Philip Steir's "Get Rhythm" makes me want to dance my blues away just like the shoeshine guy whose story is the song, and Count de Money's remix of "Big River" is riveting.

Then I decided to see what others have had to say and was truly shocked to see the negative reviewer and listener response to this controversial recording. Rolling Stone's Mark Kemp calls it "musical comedy" while Pitchfork Media's Stephen Duesner likens it to "a small, remote geyser through which a little bit of hell bubbles up into our world. " Even our very own Lisa Solod Warren said back in August, "The album is frankly a disappointment. "

Well, either we have absolutely no taste in music whatsoever or this album really is that controversial, and I would prefer to believe the latter. If Johnny Cash Remixed is causing this much of a stir then it is worth a listen, and the majority of reviews notwithstanding I think you may be pleasantly surprised.

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