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Issued in commemoration of Cash's 70th birthday, this double CD is a good survey of 1955-1993 career highlights (and a different release than the similarly titled three-CD The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983). Is it a good place to start? That depends on what you have or don't have already, considering that so many greatest-hits compilations containing some or much of this material appeared prior to this, yet another repackage. All of his very biggest hits are here, and it leans very heavily on his first 15 years of recordings, with just eight of the 36 tracks postdating 1970 (and only one of them, his 1993 U2 collaboration "The Wanderer," postdating 1986). For that reason some may complain that it doesn't give some phases of his career proper weight, and certainly not evenly distributed weight. But let's be cold about this: Cash's best records were between 1955 and 1970, and focusing on his early work, as this compilation does, means higher overall quality. It's too bad nothing is included from his acclaimed, unadorned 1994 album, American Recordings, but otherwise this will serve as a quite satisfactory best-of for those who want both the familiar hits and a few good, not-so-overplayed ones, like his versions of "It Ain't Me Babe," "Jackson," and "If I Were a Carpenter."
Condition:NEW.
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1
1 Hey Porter Mono Version 2:13
2 Cry Cry Cry Mono Version 2:23
3 I Walk the Line Mono Version 2:43
4 Get Rhythm Mono Version 2:13
5 There You Go Mono Version 2:17
6 Ballad of a Teenage Queen Mono Version 2:11
7 Big River Mono Version 2:31
8 Guess Things Happen That Way Mono Version 1:49
9 All Over Again 2:12
10 Don't Take Your Guns to Town 3:02
11 Five Feet High and Rising 1:46
12 The Rebel - Johnny Yuma 1:52
13 Tennessee Flat Top Box 2:58
14 I Still Miss Someone 2:34
15 Ring of Fire 2:35
16 The Ballad of Ira Hayes 4:07
17 Orange Blossom Special 3:06
18 Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? 3:51
Disc 2
1 It Ain't Me Babe / June Carter Cash 3:03
2 The One on the Right Is on the Left 2:47
3 Jackson / June Carter Cash 2:44
4 Folsom Prison Blues Live 2:44
5 Daddy Sang Bass 2:20
6 Girl from the North Country / Bob Dylan 3:42
7 A Boy Named Sue Live 3:46
8 If I Were a Carpenter / June Carter Cash 2:59
9 Sunday Morning Coming Down 4:09
10 Flesh and Blood from the Movie I Walk the Line 2:36
11 Man in Black 2:52
12 Ragged Old Flag 3:08
13 One Piece at a Time 4:01
14 (Ghost) Riders in the Sky 3:44
15 Song of the Patriot 3:28
16 Highwayman / Waylon Jennings 3:03
17 The Night Hank Williams Came to Town / Waylon Jennings 3:23
18 The Wanderer / U2 4:43
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