Just a great concert!

Why Mercury this CD "The Great Lost Performance" calls is not quite apparent. This cash concert from 28.7. In 1990 from Ashbury Park NJ is none that somehow out of the ordinary. In addition, it comes from a time in the Johnny Cash was anything but popular.
Even then he had serious health problems - bypass surgery and jaw -and his short and little glorious stint for Mercury bowed again to the end. From his comeback and his great late work, no one knew anything.
Of all this, however, one notices on this Mittschnitt nothing! Johnny Cash is vocally in top form, bringing his concert confidently across the stage. The aggressiveness of his early LPs prison or the deep inscrutability of his late American Recordings this CD contains not so much, but she does not also required. You may well be regarded as a transition between the two.
It is perhaps interesting in how far this concert of Johnny Cash appearances in Germany is different. The concert starts with two old gospel songs namely "Lifes Railway To Heaven" and "A wounderful time up there." Both songs are with Johnny Cash little known. In Germany, a cash concert had so sure can not start. The same goes for the later following "Ragged Old Flag", his most famous patriotic song. He had always withheld from German concertgoers. Surprisingly, this concert also contains "Fourty Shades of Green", Johnny Cash's love letter to Ireland from 1962. That was otherwise really only useful for concerts in the UK and Ireland.
What is missing is the usual in Germany block with Prison Songs. But perhaps this CD does not contain the complete concert. Remains why it appears only now the question. The answer is simple: Mercury had become involved only rather half-heartedly to the supposed obsolescence musical Johnny Cash and had virtually lost already in 1990 the interest in the "Man in Black". You would probably be this concert recording "too country" have been. Something better it can be said about this CD hardly.
A weak point form only missing information here. We learn the names of all persons involved but not the number of visitors.
In addition, the CD contains more Johnny Cash then brand new song "What is a Man" where he has a certain Lucy Clark as (good) duet partner. Who is but actually remains completely open.
The very fact that this concert not from Johnny Cash great time comes makes this CD a very worthwhile purchase - not only for Cash fans!