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| Popmatters |
 It might be possible to become saturated with Johnny Cash releases. This year alone has given us three double-disc volumes in the Bootleg series. The first offered a collection of solo songs apparently recorded for personal use, and the second compiled relatively early rarities. This third volume Live Around the World does basically what you’d expect, grabbing performances from a variety of locations. Covering the period from 1956 through 1979, the set shows a large arc of Cash’s career. It also proves that it there is a Cash saturation point, we haven’t hit it yet.The album starts in the very early years with three cuts from the Big “D” Jamboree in Dallas from 1956. With just Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant backing him, Cash has that solid Sun Records sound, and the set is certainly more than competent (and the audience loves it), but the group still has some growing to do. That sound’s aided by the arrival of drummer W.S. “Fluke” Holland on drums a few years later. Comparing this first version of “I Walk the Line” with the one from Maryland 1962 shows a significant change, but the band still seems to be feeling itself out. They’re quicker now, but that’s not strengthening the song, and the set isn’t helped by the silly impersonations. We get one more version of the song on this disc, this time from the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 (without Holland, as befitting the folk setting). The group might sound its best here, which is kind of surprising given that the set has a bit of curator feel to it, especially on “Keep on the Sunny Side”, but excepting the ridiculous “Rock Island Line”. Again with Perkins and Grant, Cash is playing a folk show. It’s significant and interesting, but it’s not exactly what you’d expect, which is, of course, a large part of what makes it significant and interesting. Solidifying the country-to-folk crossover, Cash covers Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” apparently at Dylan’s request. Cash’s version stays relatively true to the original, yet still sounds like a Johnny Cash number....full text |
| Seattlepi |
| The history of popular music is filled with stories of artists whose lives ended before their time because they weren't able to control their excessive or otherwise destructive behaviour. Thankfully some have managed to avoid such a fate. One of the most famous of those was Johnny Cash. While we might never know the depths to which he sunk personally, the October 11 release of Johnny Cash: Bootleg Volume 3 - Live Around The World (Legacy Recordings), a collection of Cash's live performances from 1956 to 1979, provides a glimpse of how close to the edge he came at certain points in his career. You only have to listen to his behaviour and demeanour on stage in the early-to-mid '60s compared to how he was from the late '60s on to appreciate the difference between the two stages of his life. In fact, one of the most amazing things about this new two-CD package is how it manages to capture the arc of his career: From the early days, the Big D Jamboree in Dallas, Texas in 1956, when he was still young and caught up in the excitement and thrill of being a musician; the middle period, performances given at the New River Ranch, Rising Sun Maryland in 1962 and at the Newport Folk Festival, Rhode Island in 1964, when he was on the verge of losing control, to when he turned it around and began again, a 1969 concert in Long Binh Vietnam at an NCO club, a command performance at Richard Nixon's White House with the Carter family in 1970 and excerpts from concerts as far afield as Osteraker Prison in Sweden 1972 and as close to home as Exit Inn, Nashville Tennessee 1979....full text |
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