Can you do that? A voice that is so fragile that you look at some of the songs almost wishes Rubin would not publish it. At the very first song Help Me increased a at the first hearing of breath - Cash's voice struggles formally through the song, the pain and his impending death are united in this voice to a so moving manifesto that one can imagine almost a voyeur as a listener. ..! Nevertheless, one is Rubin grateful that American V is still published, for me the most moving album that I've heard in a long time. Bundled and all these topics in this voice, a voice that strikes a deep into the heart - songs about death, love and the résumé of an eventful life. Emphasize individual songs would be pointless - all are imbued with a deep seriousness, and succeeds Rubin and the musicians usually quite beneficial to inferior unspectacular this keynote, the symbolism of death by the somewhat thick use of basslines in Help Me and the sacral organ tones when I 'M Free From The Chain Gang Now seems a bit too superficial. Even with If You Read My Mind few more deaths would have been sweet. The steaming blues Ryhtmus in Like the 309 and the hammering and relentlessly pressing forward stroke at God's Gonna Cut You Down convince more. But the music is only accessory. Center of this album is Cash's voice can feel a sense of transcendence, between apocalypse and redemption - Dante's Inferno and the Elysium in one! And according Further On (Up the Road) you wish cash ardently nothing but walk along one of those endless roads to nowhere with June ... American V in a word? Great!
