Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash | 
| Artist: Johnny Cash
Label: Columbia Europe
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 79148
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 5 x 0.4
EAN: 5099750634523
ASIN: B00005YTBS
Release Date: February 26, 2002
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Hey Porter | | • | Cry, Cry, Cry | | • | So Doggone Lonesome | | • | I Walk the Line | | • | Get Rhythm | | • | There You Go | | • | Ballad of a Teenage Queen | | • | Big River | | • | Guess Things Happen That Way | | • | All Over Again | | • | Don't Take Your Guns to Town | | • | Five Feet High and Rising | | • | Rebel-Johnny Yuma | | • | Forty Shades of Green | | • | Tennessee Flat-Top Box | | • | I Still Miss Someone | | • | Ring of Fire | | • | Understand Your Man | | • | Ballad of Ira Hayes | | • | Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) |
Disc 2
| • | It Ain't Me, Babe | | • | Orange Blossom Special | | • | One on the Right Is on the Left | | • | Jackson | | • | Folsom Prison Blues [Live] | | • | Daddy Sang Bass | | • | Girl from the North Country | | • | Boy Named Sue [Live] | | • | If I Were a Carpenter | | • | Sunday Morning Coming Down [Live] | | • | Flesh and Blood | | • | Man in Black | | • | Ragged Old Flag | | • | One Piece at a Time | | • | (Ghost) Riders in the Sky | | • | Song of the Patriot | | • | Highwayman | | • | Night Hank Williams Came to Town | | • | Wanderer | | • | Man in White |
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| Customer Reviews:
 An excellent compilation despite an obvious omission September 17, 2004
Peter Durward Harris (Leicester England)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
No Johnny Cash compilation can ever include everything but this collection contains all the essentials from the fifties and sixties, his most productive period that yielded classic songs such as Hey porter, I walk the line, Big river, Don't take your guns to town, Five feet high and rising, I still miss someone, Ring of fire, Understand your man, It ain't me babe (with June Carter Cash), Orange blossom special, Jackson (with June Carter Cash) and A boy named Sue. All these songs and many others are included here.
The fifties and sixties take up the whole of the first CD and almost half of the second CD so, inevitably, there isn't a lot of room for his later music. Even so, the omission of A thing called love (a top five pop hit in Britain and also a big hit in America) will surprise some people. Of the seventies songs included here, the best is One piece at a time, an amusing song about assembling a car from stolen car parts.
Another feature of this compilation is the number of guests including Bob Dylan (Girl from the north country), Marty Robbins (Song of the patriot), Waylon Jennings (The night Hank Williams came to town) and U2 (The wanderer). On Highwaymen, Johnny is joined by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, who recorded three albums together as the Highwaymen. This name was originally used by a sixties folk group (famous for Michael row the boat ashore) and sometimes causes confusion.
This compilation is based on another double CD (Essential) with four tracks added - So doggone lonesome, Daddy sang bass, Forty shades of green and Man in white.
Despite the omission of A thing called love, this is an excellent collection of Johnny's music.
 Caveat Emptor August 21, 2006
John Engstrom (Dublin, CA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Buyer beware
This may a great CD. However, the CD you'll receive will probably differ from the one depicted here in the track listing.
The cover and title are identical. But I still haven't (as of August 21, 2006) found the CD listed here (with Folsom Prison Blues as the first track). Instead, I have received (on two occasions) received a different CD with "Hey Porter" as the first track
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