The Return of the Man in Black

The Return of the Man in Black

American Recordings (Audio CD)

Customer Review

The 80s had Johnny Cash as bad as many other added idols in rock history. Not only Nashville wanted by the uncomfortable rebel who refused to let even his music with the zeitgeist, nothing more to do, and in the pop world, the time on synth - was set sounds and hochgegelte hair, had the Man In Black out of Place. The saving grace of this time, which was also marked by renewed Tablettensucht and therapy, as well as from a serious operation, was the establishment of "Highwaymen" with which cash once the top of the country - could reach charts, it was quiet around him, Nobody expected nor great deeds of the once highly respected musicians.
They had not counted on Cash's fighting spirit and the Produzenden Rick Rubin, who otherwise in the Heavy Metal - scene was at home - and Hip Hop. Rubin offered the Country - Legend, the last not even had a record deal, a new treaty, sat him in Cash's famous log cabin with guitar in front of a microphone and let him sing, thing he could think straight (with this method just freed Also Cash - Intimus Bob Dylan out of its mold crisis). The result is one of the strongest and most moving albums in rock history. Alone the cover image is a stroke of genius. The Man in Black is flanked by two dogs and armed with a guitar case, before dramatic clouds scenery in a desolate landscape, looking menacingly at the camera. Furthermore there is no title, no big announcements but just a "CASH", more is not necessary, which is located on the album speaks for itself.
Many other artists, the colorful hodgepodge of songs would have been a shambles, not so with Johnny Cash, who turned unerringly each song in an original composition and finished him with his original, actually appearing simple, but hard to imitiereden style.
It starts with "Delia's Gone", a classic "Murder Ballad" for Cash wrote a new text and the video (probably because of the involvement of Kate Moss) the old man at MTV - made famous overnight audience.
So it goes on with his own compositions with speaking titles like "Let The Train Blow The Whistle" (the life "on the road"), "Like A Soldier" (survival despite härstester beats) or "Redemption" (the unshakable belief). The cover versions are excellently chosen. Nick Lowe's "Beast In Me" is a harrowing self-accusation, Kris Kristofferson's "Why Me Lord", Tom Waits' "Down There By The Train" or Leonard Cohen's "Bird On A Wire" look like written for cash. The traditionals "Tennessee Stud" and "Oh Bury Me Not" and the somewhat surprising covers of Glenn Danzig "Thirteen" and "The Man Who Could not Cry" by Loudon Wainwright III fit seamlessly into the cash - the universe, so that the Album carved as from a solid block appears.
The effect of this album lies in its authenticity. Nothing comes across as contrived nothing Cash thinks everything he sings, seems to have experienced everything himself (he has to a large extent as well).
"American Recordings" helped Johnny Cash to hardly anyone anticipated comeback and gave the rock world has (so far) four excellent albums and follow the grandiose Box - Set "Unearthed". Each of these plates is worth to be heard many times, but the intensity of the "American Recordings" exerts a special attraction.
As an extra, there is a six-page booklet with "Album Thoughts" in the Cash remembers with polynuclear handwriting of his life and his guitars.
A must for every cash - fan and for the one who wants to become one.

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