JUNE CARTER CASH - Press on
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Artist: JUNE CARTER CASHEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-04-01
Music Label: Dualtone Music Group
Soundtracks:
- Diamonds In The Rough - June Carter Cash
- Ring Of Fire - June Carter Cash
- The Far Side Of the Banks Of Jordan w/ Johnny Cash
- Losin' You - June Carter Cash
- Gatsby's Restaurant - June Carter Cash
- Wings Of Angels - June Carter Cash
- The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore
- Once Before I Die
- I Used To Be Somebody w/ Johnny Cash
- Tall Lover Man - June Carter Cash
- Tiffany Anastasia Lowe - June Carter Cash
- Meeting In The Air - June Carter Cash
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken - June Carter Cash
Music reviews of Press on
Music Review: June emerges a bit from the shadows of her legend
Rating: 4 Stars
It's tough enough when you're the daughter of "Mother" Maybelle Carter, head of the Carter Family..one of country music's founding institutions. It just gets harder when your husband Johnny has cut his own larger than life presence in Nashville. Add health problems to the mix and disinterest from a "Music City" only caring about gals with glitz rather than substance and it's a wonder this album even was made. The fact that it's this good is a tribute to the talent June was.
On first listen to this, I didn't really like it: I was wrong. June isn't a fabulous vocalist here..her voice is certainly showing the ravages of age. Hers, however, is a voice of character and her songwriting remains sharp. Though with the presence of some fine sidemen (Marty Stuart, Norman Blake, Rodney Crowell, and hubby Johnny), the focus is on June here.
HIGHLIGHTS:
While I miss the mariachi horns, the spare treatment June gives to "Ring of Fire" (you did know SHE wrote that one, right?) is refreshing. The tone is more melancholy and mournful as opposed to the peppy zest of Johnny's rendition. The gospel duet with Johnny of "Far Side Banks of Jordan" is positively spooky as they trade guesses as to who'll "cross over" first and promise to wait for the other. By May of the year this was released they'd have the answer: June would go first...Johnny would die just four months later almost to the day. "Gatsby's Restaurant" is a humorous broadside against city slickers. ("You can't ride a big white horse into the front of Gatsby's door..") "L&N Don't Stop Anymore" rides on a clicking rhythm (unidentified..maybe drummer Rick Lonow clicking his sticks together?) that's more spirited than Johnny's own version of the Tom T. Hall tune. (Johnny's version was found on SILVER, ASIN B00006GO97) "I Used to be Somebody" is a country "Glory Days" that's wonderfully self-deprecating. The Carter Family recorded many mountain murder ballads and here June adds one of her own in "Tall Lover Man". I may be in the minority but the backhanded tribute to filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in "Tiffany Anastasia Lowe" was another memorable moment on the disc for me. "Meeting in the Air" is a delirious country gospel shuffle.
LOWS:
Of the gospel numbers here, "Wings of Angels" is probably the weakest of the 4.
BOTTOM LINE:
With apologies to Joni Mitchell, you don't know you've got 'til it's gone. Thankfully, June's music presses on...
4 1/2 stars
Description of Press on
June Carter Cash has lived a charmed life: as a child member of her name-sake kin, The Carter Family,late-night duets with Elvis Presley, a movie appearance with Robert Duvall, romance with James Dean,and a Grammy Award-winning performing and songwriting career with her husband Johnny Cash. But,to hear her sing such moving hymns as "Diamonds in the Rough" is to enjoy the holy, country hos-pitality of a simple countrywoman of a pure and spiritual heart. On Press On are other such gemsas a touching, acoustic version of "Ring of Fire," which June co-wrote. Out on vinyl for first time.June Carter Cash is a country music blueblood through and through. As daughter of Maybelle Carter, a member of the pioneering Carter Family, her pedigree was well established; as wife and musical partner of Johnny Cash, her stature in country music lore was confirmed. However, with 1999's glorious Press On, her first solo effort in more than 25 years, she has made her own stellar contribution to the genre, one that sits comfortably alongside the work of her "aristocratic" company. Supported by warm and delicate acoustic strumming (from her own Autoharp as well as from Norman Blake and Marty Stuart among others), Cash proves herself to be an insightful and appealing songwriter capable of reconciling traditional themes with an acute awareness of modern times. One moment she sings of angels, family, and mortality, the next she blasts New York and Quentin Tarantino. Toss in a charming remake of her own composition "Ring of Fire," a powerful gospel duet with husband Johnny, and three Carter Family favorites, and the result is a lovely and expressive record that lives up to the promise of her esteemed names. --Marc Greilsamer
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