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List Price: $24.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 300451
Released: October 24, 1995 |
| Our Price: $95.97 |
| Used Price: $28.70 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Bitter Tears/Blood, Sweat And Tears/Ring Of Fire Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. As Long as the Grass Shall Grow
2. Apache Tears
3. Custer
4. Talking Leaves
5. Ballad of Ira Hayes
6. Drums
7. White Girl
8. Vanishing Race
Disc 2:
1. Legend of John Henry's Hammer
2. Tell Him I'm Gone
3. Another Man Done Gone
4. Busted
5. Casey Jones
6. Nine Pound Hammer
7. Chain Gang
8. Waiting for a Train
9. Roughneck
Editorial Review:
This specially priced three-CD collection offers an excellent way for listeners to delve deeper into Cash's Columbia work of the early 1960s. Bitter Tears is a sober, pared-down, and stirring 1964 collection created in defense of and from the viewpoint of Native Americans. Another concept album, 1963's Blood, Sweat and Tears, features nine work songs, including the monumental eight-minute "Legend of John Henry's Hammer," plus traditional African American field blues and classics from Merle Travis, Jimmie Rodgers, and Harlan Howard. Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash, also from 1963, is not a greatest-hits package as the subtitle would have you believe, although the title cut did top the country charts. Instead, it offers a worthy sampling of Cash's moods--majestic saga songs, gospel hymns, love songs--as the steady Tennessee Two churn is embellished by everything from banjo to mariachi horns to background chorus to the Carter Family. --Marc Greilsamer
