every day a little bit better

and once again I feel confirmed in the theory that Johnny R. Cash improved annually, perhaps even every minute. The last record before his death is also one of his best for me.
Country, how to ask for it - whether romantic tales of dying Cowboys (Give my love to Rose) or sarcastic Stories of flirtatious Outlaws (Sam Hall), Johnny's "voice like gravel" simply carries everything before beautifully straight. Even the cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" is the man with the face like a profile perfectly succeeded, he has also let it be a quiet, guitar-based ballad are that everything else comes through its dry vocals as cheesy. Another, at least humorous treat is the duet with Nick Cave, which suggests a whiskey bar as recording Location ... Most of the tracks shows Johnny, however, hard drinking, because whether he irony (Tear Stained Letter) or desire (First time ever I saw Your Face - would prove very nice), the right tone seems to him like grown!.
A notable highlight would be the Eagles Cover "Desperado", which grows together with the Eagles frontman and good guitar sounds great; and the Depeche Mode cover of synth songs "Personal Jesus", the cash makes a scratchy, based on guitar riffs grater number that one could imagine "in Arkansas somewhere" is also very good in an abandoned angle.
With the splendid variety one can hardly with because one of the excellent opener "The Man Comes Around", which blares a crisp guitar riff through the boxes and auftrumpft with quotations from the Bible, has been so carried away, but with some effort has to be immediately in Johnnys Adventurous tales latched!
A cross brilliant for me collection of American songs on the vastness of the country, the misery of the destitute and the hassles of criminals - sung by one of the greatest musicians of all time for me. Who does not like? Themselves to blame.