Music : The Man Comes Around [Bonus Tracks]

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0044007735626
Format: Enhanced
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Manufacturer: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Release Date: April 14, 2003
Running Time: 60 minutes
Studio: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Sales Rank: 241

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Disc 1:

1. The Man Comes Around
2. Hurt
3. Give My Love To Rose
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. I Hung My Head
6. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
7. Personal Jesus
8. In My Life
9. Sam Hall
10. Danny Boy
11. Desperado
12. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
13. Tear Stained Letter
14. Streets Of Laredo
15. We'll Meet Again
16. Big Iron
17. Hurt

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
On first thought, the idea of the Man in Black recording such covers as "Bridge over Troubled Water", "Danny Boy" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" might seem odd, even for an artist who's been able to put his personal stamp on just about everything. But The Man Comes Around, which also draws on Cash's original songs as well as those by Nine Inch Nails ("Hurt"), Sting ("I Hung My Head") and Depeche Mode ("Personal Jesus"), may be one of the most autobiographical albums of the 70-year-old singer-songwriter's career. Nearly every tune seems chosen to afford the ailing giant of popular music a chance to reflect on his life, and look ahead to what's around the corner. From the opening track--Cash's own "The Man Comes Around", filled with frightening images of Armageddon--the album, produced by Rick Rubin, advances a quiet power and pathos, built around spare arrangements and unflinching honesty in performance and subject. In 15 songs, Cash moves through dark, haunted meditations on death and destruction, poignant farewells, testaments to everlasting love, and hopeful salutes to redemption. He sounds as if he means every word, his baritone-bass, frequently frayed and ravaged, taking on a weary beauty. By the time he gets to the Beatles' "In My Life", you'll very nearly cry. Go ahead. He sounds as if he's about to, too. --Alanna Nash




Rating: - We'll Meet Again...
If the Grim Reaper traded in his scythe and recorded an album of melancholic country guitar music this, one imagines, is what it would sound like. Johnny Cash's rich Fire N' Brimstone tones haven't diminished one bit despite his advancing years, but listen carefully and we now find it tinged with something soft and imperceptibly fragile. Something almost like regret (or relief) of a life lived through.

Cash is one of those rare artists that can take a song, any song, and turn it utterly ... Read More

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Rating: - Outstanding performance
Yes, Johnny Cash was obviously ailing when he performed these songs, no, it makes absolutely no difference. The power is there, the sheer aura of the man is there, his outstanding ability to take the simplest song and make it special. Yes, Trent Rezner 'took back' his song 'Hurt' at the Reading Festival but no, he hasn't entirely regained his crown. Johnny Cash's rendition of the song is still heartbreaking. It brought tears the first time I played it.
Brilliant album. Buy it. Love it. Treasure ... Read More

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Rating: - The Man Comes Around
I can't understand the rave reviews given to this CD. As a fan of Johnny Cash since the mid-fifties with a huge collection of his recordings, I have to say this last one is, frankly embarrassing to listen to, because it is the "singing" of a dying old man, feeble and terribly out of tune.It should never have been made.With one exception, this applies to the other Rick Rubin recordings.
Let's face it, Johnny was never a great singer in the accepted sense, but was popular because of the wonderful way ... Read More

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Rating: - Fantastic
Being a 23 year old i am a big hip hop fan and have been since the age of about 10. I grew up on 60 music thanks to my parents and only ever really listen to it when my parents do. Since watching walk the line it opened my mind to country music and got me on to Mr cash.

Listening to hip hop,a lot of artists express there life through their music,but having bought this album this wins hands down. it is a truely fantastic album and as pour meaning from start to finish. No matter what your music ... Read More

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Rating: - Honest, Insightful and Human
The five American Recordings comprise the most honest art I have found as a great man comes to terms with the human condition as his life builds to its close. If you add to them The Sound of Fury by Billy Fury you have the perfect bookends to the male life.

Ray Gill

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