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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 168763
Released: August 27, 2002 |
| Our Price: $6.36 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Silver Track Listing:
1. The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
2. Lonesome To The Bone
3. Bull Rider
4. I'll Say It's True (w/ George Jones)
5. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
6. Cocaine Blues
7. Muddy Waters
8. West Canterbury Subdivision Blues
9. Lately I Been Leanin' Toward The Blues
10. I'm Gonna Sit On The Porch And Pick On My Old Guitar
11. I Still Miss Someone )w/ George Jones) (Bonus Track)
12. I Got Stripes (w/ George Jones) (Bonus Track)
Silver Reviews:
John Is His Own Genre 
2007-03-04 - Silver leans toward the blues in materials and treatment, though the opening track--"The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore"--is straight-ahead Cash, with some tweaks in instrumentation. George Jones fans will find here three tracks, two of them CD bonueses, on which he and Cash harmonize. Not great Cash, perhaps, but Silver is very, very good.
Overlooked Cash
2006-07-04 - I remember in the early eighties, listening to this record and hearing a "different" Johnny Cash. Although Johnny always had style, and his own sound, this was much more of a flexing of his raw talent than I had previously heard. The renditions are clean, interesting musically, and highly listenable. And it's the only recording I've ever heard of "I'll Say It's True" - which, in my mind, is a classic Cash song.
Not Silver, but Gold 
2004-09-14 - I'll start this review off by critizing some of the critics of Johnny Cash. Everytime I read a review of an album, invariably someone says "I prefer" or "I'll stick with the Rick Rubin produced albums." Rick Rubin is a gifted man, he saw the inner spirit that Johnny had and brought it forth immaculately, but why do people compare the american albums with other efforts by the man in black. If you think that those cds are the greatest thing since sliced bread, of course you are going to be disappointed when you listen to anything else. To compare the two products would be like putting the Mona Lisa beside a child's drawing. IF YOU FEEL THAT WAY. I on the other hand beleive that Johnny Cash made terrific music his entire career. Even the cd's that I don't listen to all the time, I still love and could hear over and over. Silver is an awesome album, terribly underrated and beautifully produced. The horns on "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore" add to the song, rather than detract. "Bull Rider" is another great song. "I'll Say It's True" the "duet" with George Jones, isn't much of a duet as the latter acts as more of a back up singer than an active participant, though I immensely enjoy the bonus tracks with him, especially his vocal on "I Still Miss Someone." John himself could never touch the stirring original version, my favourite, but this is nice nonetheless. To return to my opening remarks once more, I hope that everyone can enjoy the great music that Johnny Cash left behind. I have nearly thirty cd's (no greatest hits here, except ring of fire, which isn't really a greatest hits package) and that means a lot of good music for me to listen to. But if you only like Rick Rubin produced efforts, your cds should be limited to four (unless you get the amazing box set Unearthed).
Painful to listen to 
2003-11-25 - Whoever paired Johnny Cash with the producer and backup musicians on this album ought to be shot. "Overproduced" is an understatement on a number of these tracks.
"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" was the big single on this album, but it hasn't aged well, tinkling synthesizers and guitars with special effects sound especially jarring with Cash's rough hewn voice.
Trust me, you buy this album, you'll listen to it once....but I'll wager you don't listen to it a second time.
Others are lukewarm, but I love this album
2003-02-06 - This is one of my favorite Johnny Cash albums and always has been, although it appears that other Cash fans are less enthusiastic. I'm not sure why, as I feel the Brian Ahern production, using members of Emmylou's Hot Band, adds something extra to his music without in any way detracting from the main focus - Johnny's very distinctive singing voice and style.
The big hit was Ghost riders in the sky, which reached number two on the American country charts. Johnny has never got as high as that again by himself, although he hit number one as a member of the Highwaymen.
My favorite track is I'll say its true, on which Johnny is joined by George Jones. Other great tracks include the opening The L and N don't stop here anymore and the track which closes the original album, I'm gonna sit on the porch and pick on my old guitar.
Two more duets with George Jones are added as bonus tracks - I still miss someone and I got stripes, both of which had been solo successes for Johnny around twenty years earlier.
