Johnny Cash - The Best Of

Every home should have a Johnny Cash compilation. Cash is a genuine titan of popular music, whose finest work should be as venerated as anything by Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, David Bowie or Brian Wilson, and this collection does as good a job of beginning to explain why as any. The virtue of Cash's music is its simplicity. His brutally reductive take on country, set to his distinctive boom-chicka-boom backbeat, directs all of the listener's attention to his supernaturally world-weary voice (even as a teenager, Cash sounded about a thousand years old). This collection is a judicious mix of covers (Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" among them) and original Cash standards. That the producers of this record have a genuine empathy with their subject is confirmed by their inclusion of a live version of the triumphantly nihilist "Folsom Prison Blues" (once identified by Ice-T, no less, as a progenitor of gangsta rap) taped at one of Cash's famous prison concerts . The cheers that greet the line "I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die" are the eeriest confirmation of credibility by an audience upon a performer ever recorded.

Track Listing

Track	Song Name
1	Ring Of Fire
2	I Walk The Line
3	A Thing Called Love
4	Sunday Morning Coming Down
5	Folsom Prison Blues
6	Home Of The Blues
7	Guess Things Happen That Way
8	The Way Of A Woman In Love
9	The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
10	Tennesse Flat Top Box
11	I Got Stripes
12	Get Rhythm
13	Cry! Cry! Cry!
14	Hey Porter
15	Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
16	Five Feet High And Rising
17	Long Black Veil
18	I Still Miss Someone
19	Blue Train
20	Peace In The Valley
21	The Night Hank Williams Came To Town
22	Family Bible

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