The Man in Black is gone

[Peter Daniel]

Originally posted by cowanrg
what album would you suggest to someone wanting to get to know cash a little more? ive heard some of his stuff, and i generally like it. what would be agood introduction?

Actually, I would recommend this one : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...669517-9222336

Just got it today and that's what is what intro says:

"In 1993, a meeting took place in the dressing room of an Orange County, CA, theatre between a 61-year-old music legend from Arkansas and a 30-year-old rock and rap producer from New York. It was a start of collaboration that in the course of a decade would produce four critically-hailed, Grammy-winning albums. As Johny Cash and Rick Ruben began work on the fifth American album, they thought it would be a nice idea to mark their 10th anniversary by releasing a box set of songs. Unreleased gems, cut during all four album sessions, that had been sitting in several mountains of tape boxes, waiting to be unearthed - traditional and contemporary songs, sung alone with a guitar, or with celebrated guests form Carl Perkins to Nick Cave, Tom Petty to Marty Stuart, Flea to Fiona Apple. Johny also took the opportunity to slip in the album of solo spirituals he had wanted to record all his life".