Johnny Cash Music:

Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series Track Listing:
1. Get Rhythm
2. Tennessee Flat Top Box
3. Long Black Veil
4. Thing Called Love
5. I Still Miss Someone
6. Cry Cry Cry
7. Blue Train
8. Sunday Morning Coming Down
9. Five Feet High and Rising
10. Peace in the Valley
11. Don't Take Your Guns to Town
12. Home of the Blues
13. Guess Things Happen That Way
14. I Got Stripes
15. I Walk the Line
16. Ring of Fire
17. Ballad of Ira Hayes
18. Ways of a Woman in Love
19. Folsom Prison Blues
20. Suppertime

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:
1988 RE-recordings of his Classics....excellent album!
2009-01-23 - Dont think this is just another Greatest Hits album...WRONG! Johnny went into the studio and re-recorded 20 gems! He also produced this album as well, a rarity, infact, it might be the only album Produced by Johnny Cash.
Some of the songs are played through as if he was performing them live onstage, but they have energy and they rock!
You MUST buy this CD!!!!!!!

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.