The Man in Black Came Around

Like the other three produced by Rick Rubin to Cash's lifetime "American" albums singing Johnny Cash on "The Man Comes Around" alongside original compositions mainly cover versions known Felt pieces by the Beatles (In My Life) about an Irish Traditional ( Danny Boy) up to Depeche Mode (Personal Jesus) and NIN (Hurt), and much more, what you would not necessarily expect from a 71jährigen Country Grand Duke. Unless at the Grand Duke if it were Johnny Cash. As on his previous three age levels namely sounds here everything as if it had been written for Johnny Cash, as it was waiting for its interpretation: Unbelievable how musically versatile, the grand old man is here again. And even more incredible how he takes out his already clearly drawn from disease voice unimagined depths and nuances of each song, as he finds out country, blues and folk to its own style. It runs a cold down my spine.
It needs cash have been clear that this would be his final album - many pieces, a remarkable number of ballads including, act of death and farewell. The composed of cash title song sings even the apocalyptic Death Rider on Cash-Type: The introduction speaks Cash himself, who cited a cracked voice, the Apocalypse, and in the course of the song, his vocals increases in a non-writeable words intensity. But this song justifies the purchase of the album, and when the sacrilege is allowed: I find this song even more than that (rightly!) Famous "Hurt".

"The Man Comes Around" is a century-album. It opposes the division into the popular music genre, is masterfully recorded (involved have included Billy Preston and Nick Cave) and should leave no cold, the ever hear it. I would in any case never thought that me "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Danny Boy" or Sting's "Hung My Head" could so go to the heart. Cash's voice fails sometimes almost as in "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" or in "Streets of Laredo". And yet his interpretations abound with energy, always sounds rebellion, in this cash-typical "now more than ever" sound. This applies to newly installed deeply sad Gassenhauer like "Give My Love to Rose" as well as Cash's spectacular version of "Hurt" - are not angry with me, love Trent Reznor fans, but it must be sung the when and the most critical listener should admit defeat. Just like that.
"The Man Comes Around" is one of the albums, which one listens reverently; you immediately feel that this legacy. Last words: "We'll Meet Again", a hopeful Epitaph.