TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.5073
Johnny Cash Album Rankings
1
Walk the Linemay have given a cinematic face lift to Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues," but liveAt San Quentinproduced the definitive, iconoclastic image of the Man in Black, his middle finger force
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In an age where country has almost the same flavor as rock and it's not unusual for artists like Garth Brooks to top the Pop charts, leave it to a battle-scarred legend to remind us of the folk roots
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At Folsom Prisonwas one of two legendary live albums Johnny Cash recorded in front of a prison audience in the late '60s.
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4
As with his last couple of releases in the American series, his voice no longer commands attention with booming authority, but there's something about that gasping frailty that makes this proud final
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5
Johnny Cash did what many people didn't think was possible back in 1994: he became hip with Generation X thanks to his albumAmerican Recordings.
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6
Rhino's single-disc compilationThe Sun Yearscontains 18 highlights from Johnny Cash's early years, including nearly every one of his hits for the label (the only ones missing are minor singles or B-si
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Originally released in two different double-album sets, these two different albums have been packaged together on CD.
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8
Assembling a comprehensive multi-disc Johnny Cash collection is a difficult task for a variety of reasons, not the least of it being the sheer number of records Cash put out in the '60s and '70s.
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9
When Johnny Cash shuffled off this mortal coil in 2003 to join his beloved wife June Carter Cash, who'd departed four months earlier, he left behind an enormous musical legacy that spanned 50 years.
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10
By 1994, Johnny Cash's status as an icon of not only country music but of American popular culture was already firmly secure, the songs from his unrivaled creative peak in the 1960s defining country's
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11
When a tune falls into the jurisdiction of the venerable country-folk troubadour, the accumulated details of any previous readings or associations are stripped away, and its core brilliantly revealed.
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12
Johnny Cash, the Tennesee Two and The Jordinaires? Well, it's a fairly legendary combination. The style hasn't changed a lot though for the first Johnny Cash LP for Columbia.
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13
It wasn't until I saw Johnny Cash buried that the loss of country music's greatest voice finally started to sink in.
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14
Allow me to put this as delicately as possible;Unearthedis hands down one of the best musical experiences I have ever had.
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15
America likes its heroes to bleed of-the-dirt "authenticity"-- to carry a bible and have spent time in jail, to struggle with fidelity and caw about murder and remorse.
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16
Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson are about as familiar as the faces on Mount Rushmore, and it's easy to assume that they are equally frozen in time, equally nonthreat
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17
One of the projects Johnny Cash wanted to do when he was on Sun Records was to record an album of songs from the Old West.
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18
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-CDThe Essential Johnny Cash 195
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19
Johnny Cash began his career at Sun Records in 1955 and has been hailed as a rebel poet in each decade since.
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20
Sun lost Johnny to Columbia, yet enough material was in the vaults to release more Cash Lps.
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21
This contains music with a patriotic theme, including "Ragged Old Flag," "Song of the Patriot, " "Paul Revere, " and more.
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Though a good deal of Johnny Cash's gospel work for Columbia has been largely forgotten,The Gospel Collectionis a fine representation of his gospel period.
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23
The irony of the sprawling box set/bookCashis that most of the Man in Black's common-man subjects couldn't afford such a tribute.
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24
There’s never been a better time to cash in on Cash. That’s not meant as a cynical statement, but as an assertion of a cold, hard fact.
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25
Even if the best and most popular of the songs on this 1965 album are the ones most likely to show up on greatest-hits compilations ("The Long Black Veil, "Orange Blossom Special," "It Ain't Me Babe"
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26
Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town is one of Cash's criminally overlooked recordings from the 1980s. First, it's his debut for Mercury after almost 30 years with Columbia.
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28
Many of Johnny Cash's biggest hits, among them "Ring of Fire," "Understand Your Man," and "A Boy Named Sue," are included on Legacy's 16 Biggest Hits.
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29
Originally included as part of the exhaustive Unearthed box set of Johnny Cash's American Records recordings, My Mother's Hymn Book is exactly what it claims to be -- songs directly out of Cash's mot
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30
Country Christmas features Johnny Cash performing a variety of holiday favorites.
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32
By 1988, neither Johnny Cash nor his label, Mercury, wanted much to do with each other, and it's easy to see why -- Mercury was simply not supporting Cash, not letting him tackle challenging material
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One of Cash's earlier pseudo-concept albums, this doesn't exactly follow a specific theme like farming or hymns of the American land the whole way through.
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36
Although Sam Phillips steered Cash away from gospel and sacred music in the mid-'50s at Sun Records, in fact much of what Cash recorded in his early career still had a devout tone, often with piety a
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42
Super Hits is a budget-line sampler that contains an odd mix of original hits, re-recordings and obscurities.
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Though not billed as a hits album, this is a compilation of previously released tracks. Also, some of the tracks are live versions from the prison albums.
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52
Compiled and designed in the manner of Love, Murder, and God, three thematically compiled Johnny Cash anthologies released to wide acclaim in the spring of 2000, Life brings together 18 songs from Ca
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53
Johnny Cash: The Collection features a variety of the artist's most well-known songs.
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