Johnny Cash - Unearthed 5 CD's (MP3@320Kbps) [h33t][Foo]

Includes Front Cover
01 - Long Black Veil
02 - Flesh And Blood
03 - Just The Other Side Of Nowhere
04 - If I Give My Soul
05 - Understand Your Man
06 - Banks Of The Ohio
07 - Two Timin' Woman
08 - The Caretaker
09 - Old Chunk Of Coal
10 - I'm Going To Memphis
11 - Breaking Bread
12 - Waiting For A Train
13 - Casey's Last Ride
14 - No Earthly Good
15 - The Fourth Man In The Fire
16 - Dark As A Dungeon
17 - Book Review
18 - Down There By The Train (Alternate Take)
01 - Pocahontas
02 - I'm A Drifter (Version 1)
03 - Trouble In Mind
04 - Down The Line
05 - I'm Movin' On
06 - As Long As The Grass Shall Grow
07 - Heart Of Gold
08 - The Running Kind (with Tom Petty)
09 - Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
10 - Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (with Carl Perkins)
11 - 'T' For Texas
12 - Devil's Right Hand
13 - I'm A Drifter (Version 2)
14 - Like A Soldier (with Willie Nelson)
15 - Drive On (Alternate Lyrics)
16 - Bird On A Wire (Live With Orchestra)
01 - A Singer Of Songs
02 - The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore
03 - Redemption Song (with Joe Strummer)
04 - Father And Son (with Fiona Apple)
05 - Chattanooga Sugar Babe
06 - He Stopped Loving Her Today
07 - Hard Times
08 - Wichita Lineman
09 - Cindy (with Nick Cave)
10 - Big Iron
11 - Salty Dog
12 - Gentle On My Mind (with Glen Campbell)
13 - You Are My Sunshine
14 - You'll Never Walk Alone
15 - The Man Comes Around (Early Take)
01 - Where We'll Never Grow Old
02 - I Shall Not Be Moved
03 - I Am A Pilgrim
04 - Do Lord
05 - When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
06 - If We Never Meet Again This Side Of Heaven
07 - I'll Fly Away
08 - Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies
09 - Let The Lower Lights Be Burning
10 - When He Reached Down
11 - The Sweet By And By
12 - I'm bound For the Promised Land
13 - In The Garden
14 - Softly And Tenderly
15 - Just As I Am
01 Delia's Gone
02 Bird On A Wire
03 Thirteen
04 Rowboat
05 The One Rose
06 Rusty Cage
07 Southern Accents
08 Mercy Seat
09 Solitary Man
10 Wayfaring Stranger
11 One
12 Hung My Head
13 The Man Comes Around
14 We'll Meet Again
15 Hurt
Did Johnny Cash ever give a bad performance?
Even when his voice was gone or the song didn't really suit him, he always gave 100%.
This mammoth five CD box of seventy nine tracks from his American Recording sessions will only enhance his legend.
Cash once said he knew about a thousand songs.
Particularly on the first CD, starting with a powerful performance of ''Long Black Veil'' this feels like a one man
journey through the history of American song.
He lived with the likes of ''Understand Your Man'', ''Banks Of The Ohio'' and ''Fifth Man In The Fire'' all his life,
and his performances are relaxed, warm and soulful.
There are delights throughout: a towering performance of Tom Waits' ''Down There By The Train'',
and a spine tingling take on Neil Young's ''Heart of Gold''.
There's a live version of ''Bird On A Wire'' with gorgeous strings which is better than the original.
And an entire CD of religious songs from the Christian song book he learnt at his mother's knee.
The material is arranged in roughly chronological order and by CD 3 Cash's voice starts to deteriorate.
But this just means that the likes of ''A Singer Of Songs'' and ''Hard Times'' become almost unbearably poignant.
When he sings about meeting his maker you feel he knows that time is coming soon.
Only the fifth CD, a best of the American albums, seems superfluous.
If you are going to buy this box you will already have ''Solitary Man'' and ''The Man Comes Around''.
It's true that there is no ground breaking version of a contemporary song, no fresh triumph like ''The Mercy Seat'' or ''Hurt''.
But Cash's rejects are better than most artists' greatest hits.
Listen. You might be nervous about spending money on a big box set.
But you're a Johnny Cash fan, right?
You want to hear his gritty version of Steve Earle's ''Devil's Right Hand'' don't you?
There's only one way to get it...