In his tragically, last studio album succeeds in the great Johnny Cash to imagine songs with an incredible depth. As to the other three "American Recordings" he sings self-written songs and other artists. Most impressive of all he succeeds in the beautiful title track "The Man Comes Around" and in the ingenious Nine Inch Nails cover "Hurt". Cash understands the almost spiritual pain that radiates from this song and succeeds to make it a deeply moving ballad. The other covers, except "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (Simon and Garfunkel), "In My Life" (The Beatles), "Hung My Head" (Sting) are quite big and beat the originals what intensity and expression concerns. A very big hit is "Personal Jesus" of the Techno-wavers Depeche Mode, which is close to the original concerning the sound, through Cash's voice but an entirely new song. The grand old man creates on this album a previously lesser heard bandwidth and he enchants the listener with every single song. If you listen to this disc with a glass of wine in an enlightened only by candles room at, then yes one can already come to tears and it is painfully aware of what the death of the music was a great loss for Johnny Cash 'actually. I'll never forget the man in black.
