*****
Mein erstes Johnny Cash-Album, ich kannte bisher nur seine Tophits. Diese weniger erfolgreiche Konzept-Album ("nur" #9 der Country-Charts) beeindruckt mich sehr und macht Lust auf mehr von ihm. Seine tiefe Stimme kommt in manchen Passagen, die sparsam arrangiert sind, voll zur Geltung.
Johnny Cash hat alles Titel selbst geschrieben, keine Single-Auskopplungen aus diesem Album.
Johnny Cash schreibt dazu selbst auf der Cover-Rückseite:
"I have written and arranged all of these songs and take full responsibility for any errors in the narration. Hundreds of folk songs which describe places and events in any part of America could have been used in this album, but "Oh, Susanna" or "The Ballad Of Jesse James" were before my time. In this album, I sing mainly about things I have heard of or things and places that I have seen. I have been in all 50 states, usually though on a schedule which prohibited explorations of my own. But occasionally a song seemed to be begging to be written about some of the things I did see, or do."
Last edited: 19.03.2012 09:33 | 
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