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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Polygram Records
Salesrank: 106675
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $6.84 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series Track Listing:
1. Get Rhythm
2. Tennessee Flat Top Box
3. Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash, Dill, Danny
4. A Thing Called Love - Johnny Cash, Reed, Jerry
5. I Still Miss Someone
6. Cry Cry Cry
7. Blue Train - Johnny Cash, Smith, Billy [1]
8. Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash, Kristofferson, Kris
9. Five Feet High and Rising
10. Peace in the Valley - Johnny Cash, Dorsey, Thomas A.
11. Don't Take Your Guns to Town
12. Home of the Blues
13. Guess Things Happen That Way - Johnny Cash, Clement, Jack
14. I Got Stripes
15. I Walk the Line
16. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash, Cash, June Carter
17. The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash, LaFarge, Peter
18. The Ways of a Woman in Love - Johnny Cash, Rich, Charlie
19. Folsom Prison Blues
20. Suppertime - Johnny Cash, Stanphill, Ira F.
Editorial Review:
The Man in Black always knows. At least he always sounds like he does. These days he's been Rick Rubinized, covering Soundgarden and Beck and toying with severe production techniques and Cash is all the stronger for it. But this is a late '80s collection of songs Cash made famous many years ago in a context far different from his original intentions. (Horns and synthesizers are hardly the tools of the country music trade). These re-recordings prove he could still breathe life into songs that have followed him his whole career ("Long Black Veil," "Ring of Fire," "Folsom Prison Blues"). --Rob O'Connor
Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series Reviews:
No point in this album 
2008-08-22 - I commend the idea of re-recording some of these hits. I could see that maybe they would have new meanings in his later years. But every track is over-produced and devoid of life. In fact, it's quite painful to listen to, and it makes you really appreciate Rick Rubin. If you've ever wondered what "phoning it in" means, this is a great example. This album is so bad I gave it away.
Great! Wonderful re-recordings of wondeful songs! 
2008-03-14 - I just got this item in the mail today, and I love it. I know a lot of people don't like re-recordings, but these ones are fabulous! I love this album and it is an awsome addition to your Cash collection. This release is EXTREMELY rare on lp, so if you see one, you should get it before it is sold! 20 awsome songs on ONE record, not two, but one! It has some of his most famous songs (I Walk The Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Ring Of Fire, ect.) and some of his less famous songs (Thing Called Love, Supper Time, ect.). I love this ablum. 5 outta 5.
Why re-make a song when the original is so good? 
2006-08-03 - I generally do not like re-makes, especially by the same artist and particularly when nothing new is brought to the song. If one is going to re-make a song, at least attempt a different arrangement with different instruments, tempo, etc. Don't make it identical to the first recording; this is tantamount to trying to remind people you are still alive, which is rather sad. This CD reveals how desperate Cash was to revive a once hot career, and the results are unmemorable to say the least. If you are a casual Cash fan, steer clear of this one. I would recommend it for completists only.
Nothing more original THAN the original recordings...
2004-12-07 - These re-recordings of "classic" Cash tunes show WHY the 1950s and early '60s originals will always be the versions that will forever be remembered by serious music fans in future decades. In the original Sun and Columbia versions there was a special something that just made you want to really listen...For CLASSIC CASH there is no substitute for the recordings Johnny Cash made with the REAL Tennessee Two/Three: Marshall Grant on bass, the legendary Luther Perkins on guitar, and later WS Holland on drums. The band included on this album (although WS Holland and longtime guitarist Bob Wootton are present) sounds more like some "cover band" Cash may have picked up on the way to the recording studio. Cash re-recorded some of the songs on this album in 1963 and '64 for the I WALK THE LINE LP on Columbia with much better results! Hardly worth listening to more than once.
The Purists are Purely Annoying
2003-06-27 - I own lots and lots of Johnny Cash, but I always grab this one when I'm heading out the door and hanker for some Classic Cash. No one wants to jam to the dunka dunka rhythms of the sun recordings when theyre barreling down the road, come on! This rawks, good stuff. This is that bridge for the modern ear to some of the best cash songs ever written. If that's wrong, then I don't ever want to be right.
