Gospel Glory

Performer: Johnny Cash
Artist: June Carter Cash; The Carter Family; The Statler Brothers
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel includes: Johnny Cash (vocals); June Carter, The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers. Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar). Sony Music Special Products' Gospel Glory contains a selection of ten gospel tunes Johnny Cash recorded for Columbia Records over the years, including songs he sang with the Carter Family. It may just be a budget-priced collection, but it's surprisingly strong, containing such essentials as "Daddy Sang Bass," "(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me)," "Rock of Ages," "The Great Speckled Bird," and "Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)." That alone makes the disc worthwhile for budget-minded listeners, but it's also true that it's more engaging than the average gospel record from Cash, which may make it of interest as well to hardcore fans who already own all this material. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine When Johnny Cash left Sun Records in 1958, he was a highly successful and sought-after country star. Of the many labels courting Cash, Columbia offered him the greatest degree of artistic freedom. Cash hadn't been allowed to record the gospel music he loved at Sun, and he took advantage of his newfound liberty at Columbia, recording several gospel albums during the 1960s and 1970s. GOSPEL GLORY is a selection of ten tracks from these albums (Cash's first two Columbia gospel records, incidentally, are collected on the single disc THE GOSPEL COLLECTION on the Columbia Legacy label). The album starts with the Carl Perkins-penned hit "Daddy Sang Bass," then proceeds through a collection of standards that include "Amazing Grace," "Rock of Ages," and "Softly and Tenderly." GOSPEL GLORY is an inexpensive introduction to Cash's religious music, an essential part of the singer's body of work.

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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