JOHNNY CASH "American V: A Hundred Highways" MINT
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Aug 26, 2010
Sold Date
Aug 16, 2010
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JOHNNY CASH "American V: A Hundred Highways" MINT
2006 LOST HIGHWAY RECORDS w/INNER + INSERT, PLAYED ONCE
JOHNNY CASH
American V: A Hundred Highways
2006 AMERICAN RECORDINGS/LOST HIGHWAY (B0002769-01) PRESSING OF JOHNNY CASH'S "American V: A Hundred Highways" - IN ONCE PLAYED CONDITION AND DELIVERING MINT AUDIO THROUGHOUT - A BEAUTIFUL, HEARTFELT AND DEEPLY MOVING LP CONTAINING HIS LAST COMPLETED SONG "Like the 309"
PRESSED ON QUALITY HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL (with the "6/1/06" date etching on the run-off)
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN A SINGLE GLOSSY SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE AND LOST HIGHWAY RECORDS MERCHANDISING INSERT
THIS IS MY OWN PERSONAL SECOND COPY BOUGHT ON RELEASE AT HMV, OXFORD STREET, LONDON
I HAVE PLAYED IT ONCE (just now) TO CHECK THE AUDIO (as it has pressing blemishes common on North American records) BUT IT PLAYS FLAWLESSLY THROUGHOUT
American V: A Hundred Highways is the long-awaited album of Johnny Cash's final recordings, the basic tracks for which (i.e., Cash's vocals) were recorded in 2002-2003, with overdubs added by producer Rick Rubin after his death on September 12, 2003, at age 71.
The album begins with two religious songs, Larry Gatlin's "Help Me," a plea to God, and the traditional "God's Gonna Cut You Down," which, in a sense, answers that plea.
The finality of death thus established, Cash launches into what is billed as the last song he ever wrote, "Like the 309" which is about a train taking his casket away.
As written, Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" seems to concern a romantic breakup expressed in literary and cinematic terms, but in Cash's voice, lines like "You know that ghost is me" and "But stories always end" become inescapably elegiac.
Bruce Springsteen's "Further On (Up the Road)" is even easier to interpret as a call to the hereafter, with lines like "Got on my dead man's suit and my smilin' skull ring/My lucky graveyard boots and song to sing."
These two songs make a pair with the album's two closing songs. Ian Tyson's "Four Strong Winds" is, like the Lightfoot selection, a folk standard by a Canadian songwriter, also nominally about romantic dissolution, although here the singer who is "bound for moving on" doesn't seem likely to come back. And the closing song, "I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now," may have lyrics implying that the unjustly imprisoned narrator has been set free, but in Cash's voice it sounds like he's been executed instead and is singing from beyond the grave. The four songs in between "On the Evening Train" and "Four Strong Winds," dealing with faith and love (the former expressed in a previously recorded 1984 Cash copyright, "I Came to Believe") serve to complete the picture.
Cash may never have heard Rubin's overdubs, but they are restrained and tasteful, never doing anything more than to support the singer and the song.
If the entire series of American recordings makes for a fitting finale to a great career, American V: A Hundred Highways is a more than respectable coda.
Track Listing:
Side 1: Help Me / God's Gonna Cut You Down / Like The 309 / If You Could Read My Mind / Further On Up The Road / On The Evening Train
Side 2: I Came To Believe / Love's Been Good To Me / A Legend In My Time / Rose Of My Heart / Four Strong Winds / I'm Free From The Chain Gang Now
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