| Product Summary | | Label: ISLAND | | UPC: 00602517138407 | | Release Date: 11/21/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 203391092 | | Item#: M3C3J3 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2006 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
(C) 2006 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Johnny Cash; June Carter Cash, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Jr., Bob Dylan. | | The number of Johnny Cash compilations and best-of sets glutting the marketplace, especially since the death of the singer and the release of the biopic WALK THE LINE, borders on absurdity. But can one really complain when his music is so good, and the net result is that more people know and love the Man in Black than ever before? If THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH VOLUME 2 turns on even one unwitting listener to Cash's music for the first time, it will have more than justified its existence. | | VOLUME 2 of THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH provides an excellent complement to the first volume. The set ranges across Cash's career, spanning back to immortal classics like "Home of the Blues," "I Still Miss Someone," and "Long Black Veil," and to his late-period covers of songs by Tom Petty and Leonard Cohen. Duets are featured prominently; the ones with Waylon Jennings ("The Night Hank Williams Came to Town") and Bob Dylan ("Girl from the North Country") are highlights on an album full of highlights. | | The second individual volume of The Legend of Johnny Cash does its best to augment the initial release that was issued as a marketing extra for the film I Walk the Line. The first disc spent some initial time -- as is proper -- on Cash's early years for Sun, and filled out the set with tracks from his long association with Columbia Records and his final years with American and producer Rick Rubin. This "fill in the dots" set contains the Man in Black's second and third number one singles -- "There You Go" and "Ballad of a Teenage Queen," respectively. The latter was written by Cowboy Jack Clement, who succeeded Sam Phillips as Johnny's producer. Other classics on this disc include "Long Black Veil" from the Orange Blossom Special album and his next number one, "I Still Miss Someone," written by Cash and produced by Don Law. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" is here, as are "Girl from the North Country," a duet with Dylan taken from the latter's Nashville Skyline record, and his "It Ain't Me Babe," a duet with June Carter. Duets feature prominently, as "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town" with Waylon Jennings and "That Old Wheel" with Hank Jr. make the cut. "Daddy Sang Bass" and "Flesh and Blood" are here as well, both produced by Bob Johnston. The disc's final six songs come from the American sessions cut with Rubin, and include a cool reading of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down." ~ Thom Jurek |
Producer: Gregg Geller (Compilation) |
Musical Guests | | June Carter Cash | | Waylon Jennings | | Hank Williams, Jr. | | Bob Dylan |
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