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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Mercury Nashville
Salesrank: 195678
Released: May 21, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Johnny Cash Track Listing:
1. Night Hank Williams Came to Town - Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings
2. Cry Cry Cry
3. Long Black Veil
4. I Walk the Line
5. Tennessee Flat Top Box
6. Get Rhythm
7. I Still Miss Someone
8. Blue Train
9. Folsom Prison Blues [Live]
10. Home of the Blues
11. Cat's in the Cradle
12. Wanted Man
Editorial Review:
The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."
To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®.20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Johnny Cash Reviews:
A very enjoyable Cash set 
2008-02-15 - Johnny Cash is a country music icon. His best period, of course, was probably on the Columbia label. This one picks up after he left Columbia in 1986 and signed with Mercury. Still, this isn't a bad set at all.
The first time I saw this, I wasn't sure what to think. I listened and noted that most of these are remakes. But, unlike most recording artists when they remake songs, his remakes are actually really good. Some, like 'I Still Miss Someone,' I think are better than the original.
And, you get several great songs that are original songs that were never recorded on the Columbia or Sun labels. 'The Night Hank Williams Came To Town' has a nice country-like sound. It's a nice song with a nice rhythm.
Johnny also does an excellent reworking of Harry Chapin's classic 'Cats In The Cradle.' I may actually like Johnny's version better than Harry's!
This is another great disc in UMG's 20th Century Masters series. If your a huge Johnny Cash fan like I am, than this is a welcome member to your Cash collection. But, if your new or just a casual fan to Cash's music, buy this along with Sony's '16 Biggest Hits' and you are off to a great start.
Highly recommended. ENJOY!!!
Great Record 
2006-01-13 - This album should be in every Cash fan's collection. Although Johnny's earlier recordings are more famous, the Mercury recordings have a tempo and an energy that the earlier recordings lack.
This is the best sounding Johnny Cash
2006-01-04 - I have several other CD's by Johnny that have been remastered and none of them sound even half as good as this one.
Several of these songs are not the "HIT" songs, but several of these are better than many of the hit songs...
The first 9 songs are awesome as is the clear version of "Wanted Man" at the end...
I am not sold on his version of "Cat's In The Cradle", but I am glad to hear his version. And "Home of the Blues" is just OK.
"Folsom Prison Blues" and "Wanted Man" never sounded better...and "I Still Miss Someone" isn't one of my favorites, but I actually like this version.
Per the liner notes "Get Rhythm", "I Walk The Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Cry, Cry, Cry", "Home of the Blues", "Tennesse Flat Top Box", and "Wanted Man" are all Mercury Recordings, not the original Sun or Columbia versions. This probably explains why it doesn't sound like they were mastered by Thomas Edison and the RCA dog Nipper...recording technology had advanced light years from the fifties to the eighties...and in his fifties Johnny's voice and playing were still fine!
While "At San Quentin" is still my favorite...this is the clearest, best sounding of the Johnny collections.
you can do better than this... 
2005-02-10 - If you want a low-priced sampler of Johnny Cash, you might want to find one made by Sony. This here is an ill-considered cash-in by Universal, featuring re-recordings made in the 80's. For under ten dollars, there are a number of better discs available from Sony - _16 Biggest Hits_, _Greatest Hits Vol. 1_, _Super Hits_, _Giant Hits_, etc. These are preferable because, for the most part, they feature the original recordings.
A good quality assortment
2005-01-15 - This CD is not for the weekened Cash fan. Those who want 'Ring of Fire'and 'Boy Named Sue' can buy greatest hits CD's. The songs selected on this CD are more of Cash's cornerstone recordings expressing his true voice in music. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy songs like 'Ring of Fire' but the selections on the Masters collection are for the ones who want to experience the real Cash.
