Johnny Cash - American Recordings. Your favourite?

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I only have listened to #3 and #5. Out of those two Solitary Man wins by a landslide. Phantastic covers which Mr Cash seemed to have swallowed and totally made his own like One, Mercy Seat and [I See a Darkness[/i] intermingle with solid Cash songs. Is there any other album in this series coming close to it? <a href="TS: Cash's American Recordings, Unchained, Solitary Man or The Man Comes Around;>Here</a> is an old rather short ILM thread.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
American III, Solitary Man	6
American Recordings	5
American II, Unchained	3
American IV, The Man Comes Around	1
American V, A Hundred Highways	0

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

what a mess

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago)

let's try the old thread link again.

― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

III is my favourite these days. His voice was so weak and frail on IV and V, so I've never been able to get into those records much (there are exceptions, e.g. "Rose of My Heart", where the frailty actually makes the song work).

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

Unchained, for the cover of "Spiritual."

― dally, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago)

Unchained. I've listened to dude since I was a little kid, and it's one of the best albums I've ever heard from him. "There ain't a hell of a lot I can look back on with pride/But I never picked cotton."

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

This thread never went anywhere, but at least the poll results are OTM!

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 3 February 2008 16:03 (seventeen years ago)

no way, #5 and #4 both had way too many highlights to be so low.

― pipecock, Sunday, 3 February 2008 18:34 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

people are sleeping on how good VI is

― just to guetta rep (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 1 August 2010 22:33 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

I think that's right. Just busted these out on Spotify this week -- I hadn't heard V or VI. Enjoying both considerably.

Playlist of all six of 'em here

― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 9 January 2012 17:26 (thirteen years ago)

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