The Collection: The Fabulous Johnny Cash/Blood, Sweat & Tears/Ragged Old Flag [B

Performer: Johnny Cash
Artist: The Carter Family; The Oak Ridge Boys
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: This box set collects three significant albums in Johnny Cash's extensive career. On his 1958 Columbia debut, THE FABULOUS JOHNNY CASH, the only real addition to the minimalist sound of Cash's Tennessee Two is a male backing vocal group. Highlights include Cash's timeless torch ballad, "I Still Miss Someone," and the poignant farm-community narrative "Pickin' Time." BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS, his 1963 chronicle of the daily lives and the folklore of American laborers, features banjos, autoharps, and background vocals by the Carter Family, fleshing out arrangements built around Cash's voice and acoustic guitar, while RAGGED OLD FLAG is one of the Man in Black's mid-'70s song cycles about American national identity. Here, narratives of working-class hardship predominate, though there are also songs about alienation ("Lonesome to the Bone"), domestic bliss ("While I've Got It on My Mind"), and the affecting environmental protest song, "Don't Go Near the Water."

Johnny Cash was part rockabilly rebel, part campfire storyteller, part outlaw in black. Cash made country and rockabilly history on the Sun label in the 1950s. During the '60s, the ruggedly charismatic Cash rose to superstardom, ending the decade with both his marriage to June Carter and his own television show. In the '90s, Cash began his highly successful and acclaimed AMERICAN RECORDINGS series, reaching a new audience with an amazingly diverse set of songs, ranging from traditional tunes to alternative rock covers. With his lean, angular sound and hearty, passionate baritone, Cash forged one of the most unique styles in all of popular music, one that delved into gospel, folk, and rock, but also remained the essence of country music. Four months after his wife died, Johnny Cash passed away on September 12, 2003. And in 2005, the Oscar-nominated biopic WALK THE LINE brought Cash's music and legend to his largest audience yet.

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