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List Price: $2.98 | | Label: Delta
Salesrank: 309321
Released: August 5, 1992 |
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| Media: Audio Cassette |
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Christmas & the Cash Family Track Listing:
1. King of Love
2. Jingle Bells
3. That Christmas Feeling
4. My Merry Christmas Song
5. Merry Christmas Mary
6. Christmas Time's a Comin'
7. Christmas With You
8. Christmas as I Knew It
9. When You Are Twenty One
10. Old Fashioned Tree
11. Silent Night
Editorial Review:
Through good times and bad, Johnny Cash has remained true to his roots--roots that have never sounded better-tended than on this pure country collection of holiday standards (and a few surprises). Split evenly between solo material and songs recorded with wife June Carter and the Carter family, Country Christmas runs the gamut from reverent ("What Child Is This?") to downright knee-slappin' (the grin inducing "Piggy Puddin'"). About the only thing the 15-song set doesn't have is a veneer of slickness to rope in the stuffed shirts. And who needs them at a Christmas party, anyway? --David Sprague
Christmas & the Cash Family Reviews:
Best Christmas Album By "The Man" 
2009-04-27 - This album is simply a masterpiece. It contains 13 beautiful Christmas songs, which are sung wonderfully by Johnny Cash and the Carter Family. Johnny's voice is so strong, emotional, and bold on this album. Not only did Johnny and the Carter Family do great, but Jack Hale, Jr. and His Nashville All-Star Band & Singers sounds great too! Not to mention the song selection is great. This is definitely one of my favorite CASH albums. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Surprise! 
2008-02-13 - I got this for a friend that loves Johnny Cash and seems to have all of his music. She and her husband were really surprised to see that I had found it and thought it to be a very special gift! Enjoy this for yourself or for someone that loves the 'Man in Black'!
How Can You Not Like Johnny Cash?
2007-08-27 - Digitally recorded at Germantown Studio in Nashville in June and August of 1991, this includes some seasonal classic carols as well as the Hayes-Johnson composition Blue Christmas. First done by Ernest Tubb back in 1949, it has become more closely associated with Elvis following the release of his Christmas album in 1957. In giving it his unique interpretation here, however, Johnny stakes a claim to making it his own.
I also like June Carter and The Carter Family's happy and joyous presentation of Figgy Pudding, a take on We Wish You A Merry Christmas written by June and Jack Hale, Jr., who arranged this album and backs up the artists with his Nashville All-Star Band.
June and the family are also solo on tracks 8 and 10, with the latter just a marvelously warm, down-home country rendition of O Christmas Tree. Johnny's narration on Here Was A Man from the pens of Tex Ritter and Johnny Bond is vintage Cash, and on Away In A Manger the haunting fiddle reminds you of the background music heard on the Ken Burns TV documentary The Civil War.
Some liner notes would have been welcome [there are none other than a listing of other Christmas CDs available from LaserLight] if only to fill us in on the background surrounding the creation of the album, and who exactly performs on each track, including the musicians in Hale's band. It also would have been nice had they added just one track from the past to make it an even 14 - his 1959 rendition of The Little Drummer Boy which made both the Country and pop charts.
But hey, for the price asked you cannot go wrong with this offering from an American musical icon.
A bit too... 
2007-01-19 - My family and I enjoy Johnny Cash's music throughout his career, and Christmas music is a seasonal pleasure for us, even though we celebrate Yule--it still all works. This album, however, is too far into the realm of sermon-and-Christmas-service to be palatable. Beyond that, the Carter-Cash clan singing backup, or rather, trying to sing, doubtless make this a jewel for their immediate family, but is too "rough" and discordant (honestly, these folks can't carry a tune in a dump truck) to be what I'd call "pleasant Christmas music" for general listening.
What could have been...
2006-10-18 - This album could have been something special, however, there are too many cheesy beats and too much background singing. I love every Johnny Cash album I own (I have over 350 Johnny Cash songs), but this one is disappointing. I would even listen to Johnny Cash read a phone book. This album lacks the simplicity and class the other Cash albums have.
I would suggest getting: "The Christmas Spirit" by Johnny Cash instead.
