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JOHNNY CASH - American V: A Hundred Highways
| Slant Magazine |
| The looming specter of death darkens every corner of American V: A Hundred Highways. You can hear it in Johnny Cash's wizened, closely-miked baritone, standing in shocking contrast with the vital vocals that pepper the recently released collection Personal File....full text |
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| The Independent |
| Rick Rubin elected to wait until the movie-related media hubbub had died down before releasing this final volume of Johnny Cash's work for his American Recordings label - a decision that allows the country legend's swansong to stand alone, a last testament to the unerring truth of his art. It is easily the best of the five American albums, and one of the most compelling releases of Cash's career, a work of moving simplicity and emotional directness that underlines how rare those qualities have become in our cynical times....full text |
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| LA Daily News |
| When Cash exhales a raspy breath after singing "asthma's coming down" on "American V: A Hundred Highways," listeners should feel a chill. The line is from "Like the 309," the last song the iconic star ever wrote and recorded. Far from a dirge, though, "309" rolls along in a pleasing manner as the train song it is — even if death is a passenger, as it is in one form or another on all of the album's cuts....full text |
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