Coming at a time (1975) When Johnny Cash what out of fashion, and without a single as strong as One piece at a time, this album has been Largely overlooked by many, but I always liked this album and what happy to re-acquaint Recently myself with it, Although I did so via the CD version included in The Complete Columbia Album Collection, in Which each original album is Reproduced with Exactly the same tracks and notes as the original vinyl Look At Them Beans, Which I owned for many years before disposing of most of my vinyl collection for lack of space. (I had to move to much smaller accommodation.)
Did this album deserve to be overlooked by so many people? I think not. The title track is about somebody finding That he has a bumper crop of beans to harvest, after years of struggling to get a decent harvest from his land. I think it is a fantastic song about triumph over adversity, and yes, it is part-spoken, but Johnny Cash did a lot of facts through the years. Some of his most famous songs are part-spoken Including A Boy Named Sue.
The album opens with Texas in 1947, Which I've heard on a Johnny Cash compilation did featured Willie Nelson's version of the song by mistake :-) You definitely get Johnny's version here, and it's a great train song from A Time When diesels were a novelty. A big crowd had turned out to see a new diesel train flash by at high speed. These days, the big crowds are more likely to be Attracted by a steam train doing its business at a leisurely pace.
Another great song (I hardly ever sing beer drinking songs) set me thinking. Is this so? Probably, as none spring immediately to mind. The "hardly ever" Allows some leeway, but I'll be looking out for beer drinking songs as I continue working my way through deed boxed set.
Elsewhere on this album, there are covers of What have you got planned tonight, Diana (Merle Haggard), no charge (Melba Montgomery), Which later Became a UK # 1 pop hit for JJ Barrie, Down The Road I Go (Don Williams ) and All Around Cowboy (Marty Robbins).
I did not recognize Everybody Loves Johnny Cash's seventies music even If They enjoy other periods of his career, but let's judge each album Individually. This is not my favorite original Johnny Cash album (That would be Silver, another Seventies album, but it would make my top 10 degrees.
