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Johnny Cash Collection Promises 64 Rare Tracks

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? by Mike Diver
Artists: Johnny Cash
Words: Mike Diver
Posted: 24 Oct '03, 11:54
American Recordings have stated that a massive 64 tracks on their forthcoming Johnny Cash collection will be previously unreleased.

The label will release the five-disk tribute box set next month. It will include material from sessions for Cash's last four albums, as well as a number of duets with artists including Nick Cave, Fiona Apple and the late Joe Strummer. The package will also come with a 104-page, cloth-bound book, including a track-by-track discussion by Cash himself, producer Rick Rubin and a handful of others.

May as well stick it on your Christmas list now...

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Johnny Cash Collection

Why is it that they only release rare tracks only after someone is dead? If they released them when the artists were actually alive, more people would probably appreciate the artist and their music. For example, You Know You're Right is one of my favourite Nirvana songs, but it was released about 7-8 years later. That's just gay. Since when do you only appreciate and acknowledge people after they die? If you really enjoy an aritsts work, why do you wait until you're in your forties to realize that they influenced you and THEN you but their greatest hits cd? Anyways, I had and have a lot of respect for Johnny Cash and I will probably end up buying that tribute set anyways...
beautydropout678 | 26 Oct '03, 21:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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they are releasing this boxset because it was what johnny was working on for the past few months. it has been planned for quite a while. for people looking to get into johnny cash the genius they should check out some of his live albums or greatest hits or the 4 american recordings cds before getting this boxset
Old_Anonymous_Comments | 26 Oct '03, 22:17 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Monetary monotheism

"Why is it that they only release rare tracks only after someone is dead?"

Cash, cash, cash, cash, cash. Sad fans who'll then buy anything. Unless you're the Beach Boys and then you can do entire boxsets on Good Vibrations. Does it count that some of them are dead? Maybe. I await the day that Mike Loves dies with the itchy impatient mind of a child having to endure morning service before opening his Christmas presents.
DrFurry | 27 Oct '03, 22:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply