Johnny Cash - Sings Ballads of the True West
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Artist: Johnny CashEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-28
Music Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
Soundtracks:
- Hiawatha's Vision
- The Road to Kaintuck
- The Shifting Whispering Sands, Pt. 1
- The Ballad of Boot Hill [With Narration]
- I Ride an Old Paint
- Hardin Wouldn't Run [With Narration]
- Mr. Garfield [With Narration]
- The Streets of Laredo
- Johnny Reb [With Narration]
- A Letter from Home
- Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
- Mean as Hell
- Sam Hall
- 25 Minutes to Go
- The Blizzard
- Sweet Betsy from Pike [With Narration]
- Green Grow the Lilacs
- Stampede [With Narration]
- The Shifting Whispering Sands, Pt. 2
- Reflections
Music reviews of Sings Ballads of the True West
Music Review: A Man Of The West
Rating: 4 Stars
I have spent some time, and I believe time well spent, at this site over the pass couple of years talking about things of the West, old and new. You know the stuff of legends like we grew up with as kids, at least my generation, the generation of '68, did, for better or worst. Blame it on Larry McMurtry, his books, and his incessant Old West reviews in "The New York Review Of Books". Some of this stuff is genuine history, things that today's labor militants should know about like the struggles of the Western Federation Of Miners, Big Bill Haywood and the legendary Wobblies (IWW, Industrial Workers Of The World) who led many a strike against the mine, farm, and lumber bosses.
Other things are, and should be treated a little more circumspectly, like the legends of Jesse James and John Wesley Harding, especially those who honor the Northern victory in the American Civil War. There has, in short, been no lack of song and storytelling about the Old West. This is a round-about way of introducing Johnny Cash's valuable little cache of old time Western-oriented material, mainly ballads, including some long needed focus on the struggle s of Native Americans, the odd group out in the West, old and new.
The name Johnny Cash, although well thought of in this space, has mainly been mentioned in connection with his connection to the legendary Carter family (he married Maybelle's daughter, June, for those who are not familiar with that family's genealogy), a family more noted for their contributions to mountain music, eastern mountain music, than the hard western plains described in this album. Nonetheless, Johnny in that deep, authoritative and plaintive voice of his has brought the Old West alive in this recording. I should like to note several stick out items of interest here. First off- the rendition, based on Longfellow, of "Hiawatha's Vision"; an interesting song about the fate of the assassin of President James Garfield in the post-Civil War period, "Mr. Garfield; and, a song of the original old West, Kentucky, in" Road to Kaintuck". Then to finish this compilation up there are songs that truly reflect the struggles of the Old West, "Stampede," "Blizzard," "The Streets Of Laredo," and "Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie". Just a nice little slice of Americana, mainly not mentioned in the history books, or by western Chamber of Commerces.
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The Old West was never more vividly limned than it was on this 1965 concept album, one of Johnny's all-time best, reissued here with two bonus tracks!Though not among Johnny Cash's strongest overall efforts, True West is not a completely failed experiment either. Originally released in 1965 as a double album, it weaves Cash's narrations and original compositions with traditional songs and interpretations of other writers' material to draw one man's portrait of the Old West. Cash turns in some of his sturdiest vocals, virtually inhabiting the likes of "I Ride an Old Paint" and Carl Perkins's morbid "Ballad of Boot Hill." And he gets points for not scrubbing up some of the more raggedy old traditional lyrics. But there's often too much extraneous stuff--background singers, strings, sound effects--and while they are clearly to Cash's specifications and executed seamlessly, his own weather-beaten voice alone would usually have been more effective; for all the drama in his vocals, too much of this exasperating set sounds like background music. By the way, this album's mythmaking "Hardin Wouldn't Run" provided the basis for Bob Dylan's mythmaking "John Wesley Harding." --John Morthland
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