Johnny Cash - Love, God, Murder
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Track List: Love, God, Murder
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Album Details: Love, God, Murder
- Release Date:
- 05/23/2000
- Label:
- Sony
- UPC:
- 074646380925
User Reviews: Love, God, Murder
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Great way to learn about Johnny Cash
, September 27, 2003Reviewer: michicke - See all michicke's reviews -
For New And Old Alike
, December 19, 2000Reviewer: damelefett - See all damelefett's reviewsWhether you are a longtime fan of "The Man In Black", or have never heard one of his albums before, this is a must have. The man is at his best in these classics...
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Pro Reviews: Love, God, Murder
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Each of the three CDs in this box set are comprised of 16 songs devoted to a single theme: love, God, and murder, of course. And each of the three CDs is available separately should you not have a yen for one or two of the discs. Certainly there is a lot of notable music on this box, as it was personally chosen by Cash himself from recordings spanning the mid'50s to the mid'90s, mostly heavily weighting the 195570 period. There are a few wellknown classics here that virtually anyone considering buying this will already know (and probably have), like "I Walk the Line," "I Still Miss Someone," "Ring of Fire," "Folsom Prison Blues," and "The Long Black Veil." The emphasis, however, is on LP tracks, Bsides, and live recordings that probably won't be familiar to the moderate Cash fan; there are also three mid'60s tracks previously unreleased in the U.S., though none of them are particularly outstanding. Some of those obscure songs are excellent ("Oh, What a Dream," the brutal hangman humor of "Joe Bean," "Mister Garfield") and almost all of them are worth hearing. And each of the CDs is decorated by liner notes from Cash and a celebrity (his wife June Carter for Love, Bono of U2 for God, and director Quentin Tarantino for Murder). The question still nags: who exactly will find this box wholly satisfying? Not the average Cash fan, who wants a smaller greatesthits set with more familiar tunes. Not the rabid Cash fan, who probably already has much of this, and might want more wellbalanced and thorough boxes, such as those issued on Bear Family of Cash's early material. It's for the inbetweeners, who certainly find the more conventional box retrospective The Essential Johnny Cash 19551983 the essential first stop. - Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide |
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Pros: Comprehensive collection gathered by & introduced by Cash himself, orged. around interesting themes
Cons: Just personal preference, but I prob. could have bought "Love" and "Murder" and skipped the "God" disk; not that interesting to me.
The package is quite nice looking, and Cash himself chose the songs and the themes around which to organize them--themes which really tell you what he was all about. Liner notes by Cash and others are very good, esp. Cash's notes to the "Love" album. Clearly he had one of the all-time great loves in June Carter-Cash, and his words pierce the heart in my humble opinion.
This is a great way to learn about all that Johnny Cash music I really should've checked out while he was still alive. In retrospect, I could probably have bought the individual disks of "Love" and "Murder" and passed on the "God" disk, although you can't understand JC (whoa, Johnny Cash, Jesus Christ, JC, I just caught that) without "God". Just not into the bible-story tunes and I don't find the musical treatment very interesting. ...