Johnny Cash - Legend of Johnny Cash, Vol. 2
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Track List: Legend of Johnny Cash, Vol. 2
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- There You Go
- Home Of The Blues
- Ballas Of A Teenage Queen
- The Ways Of A Woman In Love
- I Still Miss Someone
- Don't Take Your Guns To Town
- The Long Black Veil
- The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
- It Ain't Me Babe
- Girl From The North Country
- Dady Sang Bass
- Flesh And Blood
- The Night Hank Williams Came To Town
- That Old Wheel
- The Beast In Me
- Unchained
- I Won't Back Down
- I Hung My Head
- Bird On A Wire (Live With Orchestra)
- In the Sweet By And By
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Album Details: Legend of Johnny Cash, Vol. 2
- Release Date:
- 11/21/2006
- Label:
- Island
- UPC:
- 602517138407
User Reviews: Legend of Johnny Cash, Vol. 2
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Well selected career-spanning single disc
, November 21, 2006
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| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews The second individual volume of The Legend of Johnny Cash does its best to augment the initial release that was issued as a marketing extra for the film I Walk the Line. The first disc spent some initial time as is proper on Cash's early years for Sun, and filled out the set with tracks from his long association with Columbia Records and his final years with American and producer Rick Rubin. This "fill in the dots" set contains the Man in Black's second and third number one singles "There You Go" and "Ballad of a Teenage Queen," respectively. The latter was written by Cowboy Jack Clement, who succeeded Sam Phillips as Johnny's producer. Other classics on this disc include "Long Black Veil" from the Orange Blossom Special album and his next number one, "I Still Miss Someone," written by Cash and produced by Don Law. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" is here, as are "Girl from the North Country," a duet with Dylan taken from the latter's Nashville Skyline record, and his "It Ain't Me Babe," a duet with June Carter. Duets feature prominently, as "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town" with Waylon Jennings and "That Old Wheel" with Hank Jr. make the cut. "Daddy Sang Bass" and "Flesh and Blood" are here as well, both produced by Bob Johnston. The disc's final six songs come from the American sessions cut with Rubin, and include a cool reading of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down." - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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-- ©2008 All Media Guide, LLC
Pros: Good selection of tracks.
Cons: Hard to fit Cash's career onto a single disc.
This 20-track collection is a good follow-up to last year's volume one. 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. 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 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com] ...