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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 94253
Released: March 19, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Carryin' On With Johnny Cash & June Carter Track Listing:
1. Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man
2. Shantytown
3. It Ain't Me, Babe
4. Fast Boat To Sydney
5. Pack Up Your Sorrows
6. I Got A Woman
7. Jackson
8. Oh, What A Good Thing We Had
9. You'll Be All Right
10. No, No, No
11. What'd I Say
12. The Wind Changes
13. From Sea To Shining Sea
Editorial Review:
Back in their commercial heyday as a duet team, June Carter Cash always managed to bring out a lighter, more playful side of her often somber and serious husband, the famed "Man in Black." Among these 13 tracks (11 of them originally released on the 1967 album plus 2 bonus tracks) are familiar titles like the naughty, cat-scratch-fever hit "Jackson" and their soulfully twangy version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe." But Cash and Carter also breathe understated fire and shared sensuality into more unlikely material, like their loping, folky reading of Richard Fariña's "Pack Up Your Sorrows," a pair of Ray Charles R&B standards--"I Got a Woman" and "What'd I Say"--and memorable original compositions like the class-conscious "Shantytown" and a nostalgic love lament called "Oh, What a Good Thing We Had." --Bob Allen
Carryin' On With Johnny Cash & June Carter Reviews:
An underappreciated Johnny Cash album? Yep, it exists. 
2009-02-21 - I've noticed that whenever Johnny sang with June, his voice took on a different quality. It's a sound of vitality, and sounds more upbeat, even when singing about sad things. Listen to this album's "Jackson" on Folsom Prison and compare it to the rest of the album to get a sense of what I'm talking about. Most of the times, Johnny was satisfied with showing that vitality once or twice per solo album when he'd sing a duet with June.
This is a whole album of that upbeatness and vitality. This is Johnny at the top of his game, and at times it sounds as if the two are ready to get down to business right on stage (if this were a live album, who knows?). "Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man" is where June shines the most, "Jackson" is "Jackson," and their covers of "It Ain't Me Babe" and "I Got a Woman" rock hard. The only minor stumble is early on Ray Charles's "What'd I Say," but once June comes in, Johnny gets his act together and they bring the original album to a satisfying conclusion. The reissue has a couple of bonus tracks at the end which are sort of unnecessary, including a brief modified rendition of "America the Beautiful" which is pretty much Johnny solo with June coming on just at the very last line. You can notice the difference between his solo stuff and his duets with June right there.
This is a fantastic, underappreciated album in the Cash canon. Pick it up.
Johnny Cash, Carrying on. 
2009-02-03 - Good music. Great when you were raised on the style of Johnny and June.
Love it.
2008-01-07 - I love this recording. The love between them is so apparent and I think their love story is so remarkable.
Save Your Money -- Not Their Best Work 
2007-02-26 - This is a good period for both of them, and there are a few standout tracks (the hit "Jackson," "Long-legged Guitar Pickin' Man"), but the rest of this record is unfortunately filled with low-grade Johnny. You all have heard this type of stuff from him, so you probably know what I am talking about. "Beans for Breakfast," the MCA 80s period, that sort of thing.
Personally, I am no fan of their hit remake of "It Ain't Me Babe," but that's hardly the worst cover of the bunch. Johnny's tuneless vocal on "I Got a Woman," and their beatless cover of "What I'd Say" are strong contenders for that crown.
And let's just pretend these giants never recorded "Shantytown," a song so bad that, coupled with the novelty track "Fast Boat to Sydney," will make you yearn for any one of at least two dozen records by Cash that is a heck of lot better than this one.
I'd take a pass and keep poring through their catalog -- there's much better stuff out there.
Excellent collection
2006-03-03 - Great selection of songs, the whole CD is infectious, you can tell they're having a great time!
