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Personal File

by Johnny Cash

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Overall Rating: 3.0882 Personal File is ranked overall as 3.0882 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.2855 Personal File has an avg. critic score of 3.2855 out of 4 stars

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Pitchfork

All in all, the release feels like a scrapbook of sorts: half entertainment, half autobiography in song. ...more

Rolling Stone

The Cash collections keep comin'. ButPersonal Fileis unique: two discs of standards and obscurities, most of them unreleased by the man in any form, performed on home recordings between the mid-Seventies and the early Eighties with just voice ...more

PopMatters

Johnny Cash’s career followed an odd trajectory. To someone like myself, who was not alive during his initial heyday, the Man in Black seemed always to be a legend, more a symbol than a living and working musician. As a testament to this, he ...more

Guardian

Its 49 songs, all previously unreleased, stem from a work in progress dated 1973-82 (the wilderness years between having his career killed off by Columbia Records and resurrected by Rick Rubin), which his son recently discovered in Cashs former museum. ...more

Blogcritics

Stunning. Its the best word I can find for this unprecedented collection of music, 49 precious, newly discovered recordings by one of Americas most treasured musical giants. ...more

PopMatters

Personal File is a must-have for all but the most casual of fans, to be shelved alongside The Sun Years, Folsom Prison, and American Recordings as representing the best of the many chapters of the long and amazing career of Johnny Cash. ...more

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