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| Artist: Johnny Cash
Label: American Recordings/Lost Highway
Category: Music
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Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 526
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 602527315621
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ASIN: B0030NL8KK
Release Date: February 23, 2010
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 Ain't No Grave Gonna Stop the Man In Black March 5, 2010
David Shadd (Georgetown, Ky United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It shouldn't be a big surprise that the Cash/Rubin connection has continued to produce great music long after Johnny's death. Ain't No Grave finds Cash in a much different place than he was on his prior album, A Hundred Highways. On A Hundred Highways, Cash sounded tired and very much like a man on his death bed. Ain't No Grave is a display of a man who has accepted death and who is not afraid. Johnny Cash delivers his own eulogy on Ain't No Grave and makes it very clear that death did not defeat him. From the first notes of "Ain't No Grave" to the comforting "until we meet again" on the final lyrics of "Aloha Oe", Johnny is a man who is celebrating life and embracing the next stage.
The title track is an immediate classic, much in the vein of "God's Gonna Cut You Down" on the prior album. It is haunting and emotionally stunning. The Avett Brothers add quite a lot to the track with the banjo and stomping. But the highlight for me is Cash's rendition of "For The Good Times". I have always been a Kristofferson fan, but this was never really my favorite song. Cash makes this song very much his own and you can easily visualize him sitting alone singing to a photo of June, longing to be with her again. It is a very touching tribute to her and surely does Kristofferson proud.
If this is to be Cash's "swan song", I don't think he could have done it better. This is a great cap to the American recordings and I hope we can look forward to an Unearthed II if Rubin and John Carter Cash have a few extra songs laying around. Rest in Peace, Mr. Cash. We will all miss you.
The best album of 2010...so far!!!! March 8, 2010
Lucky Sevens (Tiger Town, Alabama)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In the music world, no one has influenced a great deal of people like Johnny Cash. His influence spans across generations, songwriters and even music genres. From artists donning all black attire (Run DMC, Depeche Mode), walking the thin line between the sacred and the profane (DMX, Scarface), and refusing to label themselves (Beck), all of that was spawned from the Man In Black. So in 2010, American Recordings released the final installment "American VI: Ain't No Grave".
Like all other albums in this series, it was produced by Rick Rubin and it is considerably short clocking in at a little over 30 minutes. The album starts off with the title track which is also the first single, in which he sings "Ain't no grave that can hold my body down". It's a rather eerie statement- especially if you consider that he passed away in 2003. Following it is the Sheryl Crow song "Redemption Day" and later the Kris Kristofferson penned "For The Good Times" a song that was made famous by Al Green almost 40 years ago. Just about all of the songs are cover songs with the exception of "I Corinthians 15:55" which is the lone Johnny Cash composition. The album ends with the excellent track "Aloha Oe", and as soon as the song ends, you will want to play this album all over again in its entirety. In short, Johnny Cash has the best album out right now. Not just in country...in music, period.
Somber, mournful - beautiful March 12, 2010
Timothy J. Bazzett (Reed City, MI USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Johnny Cash is a lot like Willie. You either hate his singing or you love it. The jury has always been split in our house. My wife hates him. I love him. I've been listening to Johnny Cash for over fifty years. I think I was hooked from the opening notes of "Ballad of a Teenage Queen," when I was only twelve or thirteen years old. Johnny went through a lot of transformations in the years between then and now, but the voice was always instantly recognizable. And now he's gone to that place none of can be honestly sure about. Maybe that's why one of my favorite songs from this album is "I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound." That's if I actually have a favorite. Because the mood of this last CD, recorded in the last months of Cash's life, remains unrelentingly somber. My assessment here may be colored by my continuing sadness, knowing that Johnny is really gone, and knowing that he was very much aware of his own imminent death when he recorded these songs. His beloved life partner, June Carter Cash was already gone. So maybe Johnny was ready. The melancholy is evident in every song here, in any case. The voice is a bit weaker, but the sentiments expressed were firm and true. Listening to Johnny sing "For the Good Times" nearly brings me to tears each time I listen. And I have listened dozens of times already. I can't seem to take this album off the player. Every simple and spare arrangement by Rick Rubin and company is letter-perfect. And the songs seem to get a little better every time I play it. Yes, there is much here to meditate on - death and loss, grief that won't end. But every time I listen, I want to paraphrase that line from To Kill a Mockingbird. "Stand up, child. Johnny Cash is singing." - Tim Bazzett, author of SOLDIER BOY: AT PLAY IN THE ASA
A Fond Farewell February 28, 2010
T. O. Minnema (Parkville, MD)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A wonderful CD, perhaps the best of the American series. Each song feels like a personal good-bye to a relative or close friend. Mr. Cash does share his concerns, but mostly he seems surprisingly confident about where he's heading. There's no sign of vengence, rather, he tends to want us to know that everything will be okay. Rick Rubin deserves credit for putting such wonderful arrangements behind each song, and for compiling one last worthy collection. I very strongly recommend this disc.
LEGEND March 3, 2010
J. P. Murphy (Somewhere,USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Johnny Cash is,was and always will be a legend. This is another great performance from the man in black.He was a man on mission and you can hear it in his voice and song choices.I love CASH and will buy American VII and any more they have tucked away.Long Live the real King of Rock and Roll.
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