Original Album Classics Hello, I'M Johnny CashMan In BlackThe Joh Nny Cash Show

Three wonderful Johnny Cash albums from the early 70's era. ALL of them unique and memorable from one of America's most talented and prolific performers and songwriters. A nice mix of folk style story songs, several poignant ballads, several spiritual items that come across as simply magnificent and of course, lesson or two on humanity and where some change was needed...remember "Man in Black"..."Dear Mrs" or "Beat the Devil", a Kristofferson song about the human condition, how winning and losing sometime take hold of our lives in the same manner. My favorite tunes here are "Route1 Box 144"..."I Talk to Jesus Every Day"..."If I were a Carpenter (a duet with June)" and several selections from the album "The Johnny Cash Show", with tunes from his TV show around 1969 and 70. "I'm Gonna Try to be that Way"..."These Hands" and the epic narrative set to modest orchestral background, "Here was a Man". Don;t get the wrong impression, please. It is ALL wonderful, memorable and very capable of stirring your heart and soul. I had these originally on vinyl way back when. There was an opportunity to upgrade to to CD's and I'm so glad I did. You will to!

This album in my opinion is one of Cash's finest and has some hard to find tracks like Southwind and the incomparable If I Were A Carpenter, one of two duets with June Carter Cash. Pure guitar sounds and the sweet background vocals and harmonies of The Carter Family help bring it to life. If you have a chance get this CD before it's gone. You won't regret it and it makes a fine addition to any Johnny Cash collection.

I bought this to get the Hello, I'm Johnny Cash CD. For me, it was the best in the set. Purchasing this was a bargain for me since I did not want to purchase the recently released Columbia Records box set (of 60+ CDs and very expensive). The sound quality was not the best. Sometimes it seems Johnny's voice was lost in the mix. Still, I won't complain since I paid less than $20 for 3 albums that I did not previously own and are not that easy to get elsewhere. I will never tire of hearing Johnny sing.

Very good cd..

I bought this package primarily for the CD "Hello I'm Johnny Cash," which contains one of my favorite songs, "Sing a Traveling Song," composed by his late teenaged nephew. I was also thrilled to be turned on to "The Devil to Pay." And, of course, I could listen to "If I Was a Carpenter" all day. There is another CD of the same name, but it is probably not the one you are looking for. It is sold separately on Amazon, so be wary although the reviews should guide you. The other two CDs are great too, though one of them contains arguably Cash's worst song ever, a creepy duet with Billy Graham. It's called "The Preacher Said, 'Jesus Said'" on the Man in Black album. The third disc is a live set from The Johnny Cash, and it features a pair of "Come Along and Ride This Train" medleys.

So its a sampling of 5 complete Johnny C records, which is fine in its own right, but the bonus here is the original art, the neat little carboard sleves, and the swell little box. Not to mention great sound quality, and BONUS TRACKS on each disc, which are listed on the back of the main box, but not on the individual packages sleves. .

Excellent songs from the legendary Man in Black! A 3 CD set at a great value! So glad to find this, after purchasing the original album over 40 years ago, which I still have in my collection!

This being a 3 CD collection, I have 2 of them on 33 1/3 record albums. Old songs sounding new again. Almost like I had purchased Johnny Cash's latest album release. Terrific albums.

3 cd dans ce petit coffret pour un passionné de Johnny cash c'est un cadeau idéal

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A name springs to mind during this period of Johnny Cash's career: namely Bob Dylan. Hello and Man In Black showcase Dylan's influence, though not his tunes, as Cash goes down a tremendously folk-rock based journey. You can tell that Nashville Skyline was also recorded around this time-frame. Hello still features an amazing rockabilly number, Blistered. I also understand that Cash co-wrote See Ruby Fall with his rockabilly buddy, Roy Orbison. It is a pure honky-tonk number in the manner of what Jerry Lee Lewis was cutting at the time. Orbison, at the same time on MGM, released a Hank Williams covers album, so that influence may have rubbed off. To Beat The Devil, Devil to Pay, Sing A Travelling Song, all have that Nashville Skyline country-rock/folk vibe that Dylan was working on. To Beat The Devil was written by Kris Kristofferson, and also appears on his first album. The Johnny Cash Show is excellent too, but I prefer the issues of the TV show from two years' ago. Sunday Morning Comin Down is the great track from this album, which like Hello was produced by Bob Johnson, the same guy that did Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Hardin, and Nashville Skyline for Dylan. He also produced Bookends for Simon & Garfunkel, and the first two Leonard Cohen albums. Again, the Dylan influence is apparent, but what is also apparent is the seeds sown for Cash's career failure. The over-produced orchestrations of Bill Walker are a foreshadowing of some of Cash's awful recordings from the mid 70s onwards. Man In Black though is the zenith before the long-dying fall, and before the Rubin produced resurrection. It features spiritual numbers, but they are not as cloying, or as sugary as his later gospel recordings. Look For Me is just the right side of spiritual without being over-zealous, with a Dylanesque influence too. The Preacher Said Jesus Said is far better than a later effort about Billy Graham, Oral Roberts etc, nor is it as clumsy as Matthew 24. Secondly, we have the re-write of Dylan's Chimes of Freedom that is Man In Black: a re-write in the good sense. This is Cash's manifesto filtered through the Dylanesque sensibility of the age. Vietnam Talkin Blues shows that, as a country singer, Cash's politics were never clear-cut, never right-wing, in no way an Okie from Muskogee figure, though Ragged Old Flag and Sold Out of Flag Poles later would beg to differ. In short, all three albums are excellent, but it wouldn't be long before the long dying trajectory began.