Johnny Cash - The Man in Black: His Greatest Hits

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A more affordable alternative to the three-CD Essential package, The Man in Black is a well-chosen, double-disc collection that includes a good number of Cash's highlights, but leaves behind the accoutrements of the box set (no liner notes, discographical info, and so on). On the other hand, it includes various cuts--duets with Dylan, Kristofferson, and the Highwaymen for example--that Essential leaves off, although Essential does a more-thorough job of sampling the Sun years and the prison records. As a summary of Cash's many frames of mind, this compilation is not a bad place to start at all. --Marc Greilsamer

Tracks:

Folsom Prison Blues (Live)
I Walk The Line
Guess Things Happen That Way
Jackson
Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
Flesh And Blood
Daddy Sang Bass
A Boy Named Sue (Live)
Don't Take Your Guns To Town
Ring Of Fire
There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
Big River
The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
What Is Truth
One Piece At A Time

Tracks:

Man In Black
Understand Your Man
There You Go
Tennessee Flat-Top Box
Girl From The North Country
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Five Feet High And Rising
Orange Blossom Special
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky
Highwayman
If I Were A Carpenter
A Thing Called Love
The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
I Still Miss Someone
Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)

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A more affordable alternative to the three-CD Essential package, The Man in Black is a well-chosen, double-disc collection that includes a good number of Cash's highlights, but leaves behind the accoutrements of the box set (no liner notes, discographical info, and so on). On the other hand, it includes various cuts--duets with Dylan, Kristofferson, and the Highwaymen for example--that Essential leaves off, although Essential does a more-thorough job of sampling the Sun years and the prison records. As a summary of Cash's many frames of mind, this compilation is not a bad place to start at all. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

I'm Johnny Cash and You're Not...........2002-02-15

I was hooked on Johnny Cash the first time that he walked out on his TV show and said, "Hi. I'm Johnny Cash." At the mere age of 4 I considered myself to be a "Highwayman" also. I wore black for years because of Johnny. I was the Trent Reznor of my middle school.

Great Collection, but...........2001-10-31

A great collection from a great artist but (and with all respect to Mr. Cash) nobody does Folsom Prison Blues better than Native American artist Bill Miller. Sorry Jay Rudin but you should drop this one from your list of 25 songs that nobody else should sing.

Johnny Cash at his best.......2001-06-23

This CD has eveything you are looking for. All the songs I used to hear on 8 track at my grandma's house as a kid. The sound quality was great and I highly reccommend this addition to anyone's collection.

an americn original!!.......2001-02-27

This magnificent 2 CD set would almost be worth the price just for the immortal words at the beginning of the first track, Hello, I'm Johnny Cash, which of course is how he began his famous concert at Folsom Prison, with an extraordinary version of Folsom Prison Blues that is even better than the original. The great songs are here: I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Big River, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Jackson, and there is so much more, including a remarkable duet with none other than Bob Dylan, and a couple of tracks with Waylon Jennings. The distinctive, macho, voice of Johnny Cash and his guitar strumming are American institutions, and I maintain that noone in country music has ever topped him.

the man in black is great.......2000-01-07

i've always dug johnny cash's style and his music.he is a true superstar no matter what genre.his songs deal with real life themes and are heart felt and timeless.

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