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Personal File

by Johnny Cash

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of 455,466

3,145
2000's

of 265,741

345
2006

of 33,755

55

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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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Entertainment Weekly

Johnny-come-latelies may think of Cash as shaky-voiced, because of Joaquin Phoenix's raspy impression or his own final releases. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Even die-hard fans may be startled to hear Cashs effortlessly deep, full-bodied baritone in Personal File, newly uncovered, secret sessions from 1973 to 82, wherein he appears to have invented the solo-acoustic American Recordings ethos two decades early. ...more

Rolling Stone

The Cash collections keep comin'. ...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. ...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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Slant Magazine

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 "Golden Era" even as the content and form of...read the complete review at Slant Magazine

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Pitchfork

All in all, the release feels like a scrapbook of sorts: half entertainment, half autobiography in song....read the complete review at Pitchfork

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Bullz-eye

These unrefined recordings can hardly be held up as the legends finest work, yet they do provide one more thread to be woven into his grand tapestry....read the complete review at Bullz-eye

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CDreviews

Legacy dips into The Man in Black's private stash of recordings for an intensely personal look at his work. Not everything that is tucked away in a vault is automatically great; take for instance Geraldo Rivera opening the vault of Al Capone in 1986 on...read the complete review at CDreviews

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