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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 140678
Released: February 7, 1995 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash Track Listing:
1. Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash, Cash, June Carter
2. I'd Still Be There
3. What Do I Care
4. I Still Miss Someone
5. Forty Shades of Green
6. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? - Johnny Cash, Traditional
7. The Rebel - Johnny Yuma - Johnny Cash, Markowitz, Richard
8. Bonanza - Johnny Cash, Livingston, Jay
9. The Big Battle
10. Remember the Alamo - Johnny Cash, Bowers, Jane
11. Tennessee Flat Top Box
12. Peace in the Valley - Johnny Cash, Dorsey, Thomas A.
Editorial Review:
This 1963 release 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 far-ranging moods--dramatic saga songs, gospel hymns, love songs, honky-tonk weepers, folk ballads. The steady Tennessee Two churn forms the musical foundation, but is at times embellished by everything from banjo to mariachi horns to string section to background chorus to the Carter Family. Cash's august vocal tone and torpid phrasing command attention regardless of song or surroundings. --Marc Greilsamer
Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash Reviews:
RIng of Fire is my kids favorite! 
2008-09-19 - Believe it or not, I bought this for my kids. We all love Johnny cash, but the kids in particular love the song RIng of FIre. i like discovering regular music that the kids have fun singing along to, and this song fits the bill!
another great johnny cash dvd 
2008-08-24 - I never get tired of listening to Cash's rich baritone & his special kind of diction. This is one of the earlier offerings & I recommend it highly.
New Johnny Cash Fan
2007-02-22 - I bought this album because I loved the movie "Walk the Line". Except for the first song, "Hey Porter", which was one of his earliest, and "A Boy Named Sue", this is my new favortie album. His deep, soulful voice tells you that his heart is in everything he sings. He wrote most of the songs himself, but even with the ones he didn't you can tell that he understood completely what the composer was trying to say, (i.e."Ring of Fire" and "Sunday Morning Coming Down"). The instrumentation is brilliant (i.e. the Mexican horns in "Ring of Fire"). Johnny Cash was REAL. Had I paid attention many years ago I would have been a fan of his all along. This is Country and Western Soul.
Better than ever
2006-03-19 - I originally purchased this as an LP in the early 60's. To finally re-obtain it as a CD is wonderful. The quality is superior to the original in every way, and the songs themselves are timeless. Having seen Mr. Cash many times in person during the 60's, he's one of the few country/rock pioneers who's songs retained that original essence that modern country lacks through to the end of his life. The influence of the Carter Family is very present in many of the songs, and their background vocals, especially June's, can still bring a lump to your throat and a tear to your eye. My personal favorite on the album is Tennessee Flat-top Box. As a young guitarist, it was one of the first country pieces I learned. If you like old style country with bits of original rock-a-billy mixed in, you'll like this album
ANY Johnny Cash is at LEAST 5 stars
2005-08-21 - It is SO good to hear these beautiful songs. My favorite is FORTY SHADES OF GREEN. You can just picture yourself in Ireland. I do want to clarify something regarding an earlier post though...I agree that Johnny should have done more Irish songs because they would have been brilliant but to refer to this as an Irish song is not entirely correct. It is a song ABOUT Ireland. Johnny Cash WROTE the song. However, now it has pretty much become synonymous with Ireland and I think that is wonderful. His body of work can't be held to one country! I also love TENNESSEE FLAT TOP BOX (his daughter's version was just as good...love them both.)
This is not the BEST compilation but as I said above, any Johnny is GREAT.
