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I have never been a fan of country music. In fact I have disliked it very much. My mom on the other hand has always loved country music. She was very upset when Johnny Cash passed away. When this CD came out I went and got it for her right away. A few days later we took a 6 hour drive together. Well she just had to play her new CD in the car. By the time we got to the second song I was like ok this isnt that bad. At the third song I thought ok this is actually good. At the fourth song I was like this is really really good. At the fifth song I was in love with Johnny Cash and with country music. You just have to get this CD. No matter what type of music you like this CD is sure to win you over. This would also make a wonderful gift for that someone special in your life.
The Legend Of Johnny Cash. Words that conjure up a vision so large, this could be a 50 CD set. Cash compilations can be tricky. Johnny really has had distinct stages in his career. Each stop a little different, and each one can equal the entire relevant output of other artists entire careers. The Sun years contain so many good tracks, you really need to have a "Complete Sun Singles" or even "Complete Sun Recordings". From there he made so much relevant music with Columbia in the 60's and 70's, that you must own "At Folsom Prison" and some of the others in their entirety. Even the forgotten 80's years with Mercury yielded some fair material, as well as some must haves with the Highwaymen. Of course closing out his career are the fantastic American Recordings with Rick Rubin. There are many good collections of the Sun and Columbia Years, and the American Recordings are recent enough that many people have them as they came out. To have one single disc that captures Johnny Cash just isn't possible. Not to say this is a bad disc, because it certainly has its good points. The inclusion of "The Wanderer" with U2 is more for Cash completists, as I could think of 50 songs that would be better suited to be included in a career spanning one CD collection. If you had to pick a one CD collection, you could do much worse. This disc is one you buy, then end up spending even more money because you will be hooked on Cash, and want more.Read full review
I purchased this item at Best Buy last winter. Also last year I received an iPod. Why am I telling you this? Because the iPod keeps track of how many times you play something and I have played songs from this Album literally hundreds of times. While I do have my favorites like "I've Been Everywhere", "A Boy named Sue", "I Walk The Line", "Highwayman", and my personal favorite of the Album, "Hurt" every song is listenable. Can you say the same with lots of other CDs in your collection? I can't. This is sort of a "Best Of" to a person who truly does deserve the Title of the Album "The Legend Of...". I was not a huge Johnny Cash fan as I have always been somewhat of a very closeted country fan but these Songs stand up well against time. They are little stories that depending on your mood can change meaning in an instant. I would whole heartedly recommend this to anyone wheather they like country or not because some of these songs make those lines blur, for instance "Hurt" was origally recorded by nine inch nails but tells a story of sorrow and substance abuse, a battle Cash fought his entire life. So this obviously gets a 5/5 in my book and I am sure if you listen to it you will feel the same way.Read full review
The recently released "Legend of Johnny Cash" compilation is the first single-disc collection to cover the legendary Man In Black's entire career. While it would take literally a half-dozen CDs or more to cover every important piece of music Cash has made, this compilation offers the basics and is an excellent overview of his most important and classic work. The legendary Sun records hits, "Cry Cry Cry", "Hey Porter", "I Walk The Line" and "Folsum Prison Blues" are included here as well as "A Boy Named Sue", "Ring Of Fire" and "Highwayman" (his collaboration with Country legends Kris Kristoferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson). Also included is Johnny's cameo appearance from U2's 1993 "Zooropa" album, "The Wanderer" and to close out the disc, there are several tracks from his American Records series with producer Rick Rubin including the final hit "Hurt" (originally by Nine Inch Nails). With that said, "the Legend of Johnny Cash" is an essential collection and offers an excellent brief history lesson of his most acclaimed work. For the few who have never heard of Johnny Cash, this CD is an excllent introduction to his music. For everyone else, this is probably the best collection of Cash music to date.Read full review
I saw the remake of johnny cash and june carter life, and for years I was bringing upchildren, and so busy and unable to enjoy sitting down to listen to there or his music, and know who he/she was. they were fantastic singers, due to looking on ebay and finding this cd in perfect condtion." money well spent/and a good seller that was true to there word telling me the cd was in good condtion." It had the songs that they sang in the tv movie, so I was very pleased thankyou to the seller and ebay for letting me express, how much it meant for me after all these years to listen to johnny cash (cd) and that beautiful country singer june carter they should still be here, its sad they aren't." at least some legend artist do sing there songs." he even in real life brought hope to the men in jail, it might of did good,the tv movie showed him singing to the inmates. thankyouRead full review
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