Johnny Cash tribute album with Dylan etc.

[Paul L.]

All you Johnny Cash fans:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/newsarticle.asp?nid=15338

[Kayaker]

Great News - looks like it will include some Early Sun stuff.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Apcex97uskrjt
Sony hit a home run with the re-release of Live at San Quentin and Live at Folsom. The restored music and the give and take with the prisioners (including Merle Haggard!) was priceless.

[Michael]

Love That Dylan/Cash duo on Nashville Skyline So Bad it's Good!

[TommyTunes]

IMO, last years American Recordings III was the best album released, just listen to the Mercy Seat. The vinyl was also particularly great sounding.

[Metralla]

I agree with TommyTunes that "American III - A Solitary Man" by Johnny Cash is a great album. If hearing and enjoying "Mercy Seat" leads you to check out the composer (Nick Cave), you will be in for a real adventure. I'm listening to "No More Shall We Part" as I type.

I'm a big Nick Cave fan, and have been one for 13 years or so. His earlier stuff is a little raw, but the sound on his last 5 albums is very satisfactory. Some may find his point of view too dark, but would imagine that this would not be the case for fans of the Man in Black.

If you are interested in Nick I'd start with "The Boatman's Call".

Regards,
Metralla

[czeskleba]

Originally posted by Kayaker
Sony hit a home run with the re-release of Live at San Quentin and Live at Folsom. The restored music and the give and take with the prisioners (including Merle Haggard!) was priceless.

Minor clarification: Merle was not in San Quentin in 1969 when the "Live at San Quentin" album was recorded (although maybe he shoulda done some time for writing the reactionary lyrics to "Okie from Muscogee"). Merle actually saw Johnny at a much earlier San Quentin performance back in the late 50s, when he was still incarcerated.