Johnny Cash - Murder (Dig)
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Artist: Johnny CashEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Folsom Prison Blues (Mono)
- Delia's Gone (Mono)
- Mister Garfield
- Orleans Parish Prison (Live)
- When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)(Mono)
- The Sound Of Laughter
- Cocaine Blues (Live)
- Hardin Wouldn't Run (Mono)
- The Long Black Veil
- Austin Prison
- Joe Bean
- Going To Memphis
- Don't Take Your Guns To Town
- Highway Patrolman
- Jacob Green
- The Wall
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Music Review: the brilliance of a dark vision
Rating: 4 Stars
If Johnny Cash is a country singer, as most people insist he is, he is certainly an odd one, as this CD -- which owes everything to the ballad tradition and nothing to honkytonk music -- attests. In fact, Cash has always been a folk singer in a Nashville context. Listening to a collection like this, you wonder how this guy could have survived, much less prospered, in an industry that has marketed some of the most soul-deadening dreck to which the human ear has ever been subjected, and that seems grimly determined to do even worse. Cash, on the other hand, just keeps sounding better. I first heard "Folsom Prison Blues" in the late 1950s, and hearing it again now, I am more convinced than ever that it is one of those rare perfect songs. I don't think I'll ever cease my sense of wonderment at that brilliant couplet about the rich folks drinking coffee and smoking big cigars -- what an utterly original, precise image -- and then: "Those people keep a-movin'/And that's what tortures me." Cash has never been sentimental about his outlaws, either; the characters in these songs are truly bad guys, most of them outright psychopaths -- in other words, no Robin Hoods, no sensitive, misunderstood rebels and social outcasts. He rewrote, but did not invent, "Delia's Gone" (a century-old Georgia murder ballad); yet it's hard to imagine a more cold-blooded version, one that burrows deep into the angry soul of a man who, in a fit of jealous rage, commits an act of hideous violence and forfeits his humanity. "Cocaine Blues," fusing two traditional songs (one sharing the title, the other usually called "Little Sadie"), is sung in the voice of a man who, if he ever had a conscience, lost it long ago in an orgy of substance abuse. Brilliant, terrifying stuff. Still, esthetically speaking, the news isn't all good. There's nothing wrong with his "Long Black Veil," except that the song has been done to death and deserves a rest. Though well meaning, "Jacob Green" is more sermon than song, the one genuinely boring cut here. And why aren't Bruce Springsteen's "Johnny 99" and Eric von Schmidt's "Joshua Gone Barbados" -- both from Cash's inexplicably underappreciated album (now CD) Johnny 99, released originally in 1983 -- not here? But nearly everything else on this CD is testament to the enduring work of a great American artist, a man whose dark vision soared above Nashville's hollow pieties and inane cliches. It's only now, perhaps, that we are finally starting to grasp just how good Johnny Cash, now in the twilight of a great career, was.
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