Johnny Cash Album - Sings the Ballads of the True West
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Customers rating:
(3 ratings)
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Release Date:2000-02-22
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Type:Audio CD
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Genre:Country, Country & Western, Country-Pop, Cowboy, Pop, Traditional Country, United States of America
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Label:Dcc Compact Classics
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UPC:010963017625
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Approx. Price:$14.98
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Hiawatha's Vision |
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Road to Kaintuck |
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Shifting Whispering Sands, Pt. 1 |
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Ballad of Boot Hill [With Narration] |
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I Ride an Old Paint |
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Hardin Wouldn't Run [With Narration] |
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Mr. Garfield [With Narration] |
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Streets of Laredo |
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Johnny Reb [With Narration] |
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Letter from Home |
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Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie |
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Mean as Hell |
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Sam Hall |
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25 Minutes to Go |
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Blizzard |
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Sweet Betsy from Pike [With Narration] |
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Green Grow the Lilacs |
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Stampede [With Narration] |
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Shifting Whispering Sands, Pt. 2 |
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Reflections |
Description :
Remastered reissue of 1965 Columbia Records release. First time on CD for this 26 track (including narration) collection from the man in black, with sleeve notes by Johnny Cash himself. Tracks include 'The Ballad Of Boot Hill' and 'The Streets Of Laredo. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.Review - Amazon.com :
Though not among Johnny Cash's strongest overall efforts, True West is not a completely failed experiment either. Originally released in 1965 as a double album, it weaves Cash's narrations and original compositions with traditional songs and interpretations of other writers' material to draw one man's portrait of the Old West. Cash turns in some of his sturdiest vocals, virtually inhabiting the likes of "I Ride an Old Paint" and Carl Perkins's morbid "Ballad of Boot Hill." And he gets points for not scrubbing up some of the more raggedy old traditional lyrics. But there's often too much extraneous stuff--background singers, strings, sound effects--and while they are clearly to Cash's specifications and executed seamlessly, his own weather-beaten voice alone would usually have been more effective; for all the drama in his vocals, too much of this exasperating set sounds like background music. By the way, this album's mythmaking "Hardin Wouldn't Run" provided the basis for Bob Dylan's mythmaking "John Wesley Harding." --John Morthland Customer review - 2000-10-29
- A very unusual and interesting collectionI have this on very scratchy old vinyl that a co-worker gave me several years back, and I love it. I intend to buy this CD. 25 minutes to go is absolutely hilarious even though it's the story of a very worried man counting down the minutes 'til his hanging. Johnny pulls it off with a mixture of hysteria and humor. The Streets of Laredo, Boot Hill, The Blizzard are all great songs - really miniature human interest stories. I also love the Shifting Whispering Sands. There is poetry besides singing on this CD. It is very different, very unusual and quite excellent. I recommend it!
Customer review - 2000-09-24
- well mastered CD from DCC and it's classic musicThis recent reissue of "Johnny Cash Sings The Ballads of The True West" is well mastered by DCC's Steve Hoffman. The music is great and although the liner notes say 26 tracks, there are 20 tracks like the LP, and here are Steve Hoffman's words about why this happened: We had it all worked out to separate the narration from the songs by track numbers. The artwork was then printed. When we sent our new master tape to Sony for laser cutting. Someone there oooopsed and ignored my written instructions while reverting to the old 1960's album indexing. So, a mismatch. Sorry. Mistakes are sometimes made! Still good music, though
Customer review - 2000-04-06
- Searching for Ballads of the Old WestDo you enjoy scavenger hunts? Perhaps this odd CD is your cup o'tea; it's Johnny Cash all right, the old songs just as they were when new, all you have to do is figure out which cut is which. The listing on the insert has little relevance to the final disc. The songs are all there, just not in the order indicated. It is fun to hear these old classic Cash tunes, but the problem is they really do sound just the same; the remastering leaves a lot to be desired.
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