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| Artist: Johnny Cash
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $49.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 524
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 5.7 x 0.8
MPN: 92802
UPC: 827969280225
EAN: 0827969280225
ASIN: B0009YNSC4
Release Date: August 2, 2005
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Disc 1
| • | I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | There You Go - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Home of the Blues - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Ballad of a Teenage Queen - Johnny Cash, Clement, J. | | • | Guess Things Happen That Way - Johnny Cash, Clement, Jack | | • | The Ways of a Woman in Love - Johnny Cash, Justis, B. | | • | Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash, Carter, J. | | • | The Matador - Johnny Cash, Carter, J. | | • | Understand Your Man - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash, LaParge, P. | | • | Orange Blossom Special - Johnny Cash, Rouse, Ervin T. | | • | The One on the Right Is on the Left - Johnny Cash, Clement, J. | | • | Rosanna's Going Wild - Johnny Cash, Carter, J. | | • | Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Daddy Sang Blues - Johnny Cash, Perkins, C. | | • | A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash, Silverstein, S. | | • | What Is Truth - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down - Johnny Cash, Kristofferson, K. | | • | Flesh and Blood - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Man in Black - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | A Thing Called Love - Johnny Cash, Reed, J. | | • | Kate - Johnny Cash, Robbins, M. | | • | Oney | | • | Any Old Wind That Blows - Johnny Cash, Feller, D. | | • | One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash, Kemp, Wayne | | • | (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Johnny Cash, Jones, Stan |
Disc 2
| • | Hey Porter - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Cry, Cry, Cry - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Luther Played the Boogie - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Give My Love to Rose - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | I Was There When It Happened - Johnny Cash, Davis, Jimmie | | • | Big River - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Pickin' Time - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | The Man on the Hill - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Five Feet High and Rising - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Tennessee Flat-Top Box - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | I Got Stripes - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Troublesome Waters - Johnny Cash, Carter, Maybelle | | • | The Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash, Dill, Danny | | • | Dark as a Dungeon - Johnny Cash, Travis, M. | | • | The Wall - Johnny Cash, Howard, H. | | • | 25 Minutes to Go - Johnny Cash, Silverstein, S. | | • | Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash, Arnall, T.J. | | • | Doin' My Time - Johnny Cash, Skinner, J. | | • | I Will Rock and Roll With You - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Without Love - Johnny Cash, Lowe, N. | | • | The Big Light - Johnny Cash, Costello, E. | | • | Highway Patrolman - Johnny Cash, Springsteen, B. | | • | I'm Never Gonna Roam Again - Johnny Cash, Crowell, R. | | • | When I'm Gray - Johnny Cash, Scott, R. | | • | Forever Young - Johnny Cash, Dylan, B. |
Disc 3
| • | The Wreck of the Old 97 - Johnny Cash, Traditional | | • | Rock Island Line - Johnny Cash, Ledbetter, H. | | • | Goodnight Irene - Johnny Cash, Ledbetter, H. | | • | Goodbye, Little Darlin' - Johnny Cash, Autry, G. | | • | Born to Lose - Johnny Cash, Brown, F. | | • | Walking the Blues - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Frankie's Man, Johnny - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Delia's Gone - Johnny Cash, Silbersdorf, K. | | • | In the Jailhouse Now - Johnny Cash, Rodgers, J. | | • | Waiting for a Train - Johnny Cash, Rodgers, J. | | • | Casey Jones - Johnny Cash, Seibert, T. Lawrenc | | • | The Legend of John Henry's Hammer - Johnny Cash, Traditional | | • | I've Been Working on the Railroad - Johnny Cash, Traditional | | • | Sweet Betsy from Pike - Johnny Cash, Traditional | | • | The Streets of Laredo - Johnny Cash, Traditional | | • | Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie - Johnny Cash, Traditional | | • | Down in the Valley - Johnny Cash, Traditional | | • | Wabash Cannonball - Johnny Cash, Carter, A.P. | | • | The Great Speckle Bird - Johnny Cash, Smith, Rev. G. | | • | Wildwood Flower - Johnny Cash, Carter, A.P. | | • | Cotton Fields - Johnny Cash, Ledbetter, H. | | • | Pick a Bale O' Cotton - Johnny Cash, Ledbetter, H. | | • | Old Shep - Johnny Cash, Foley, R. | | • | I'll Be All Smiles Tonight - Johnny Cash, Carter, A.P. | | • | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Johnny Cash, Williams, Hank [1] | | • | Time Changes Everything - Johnny Cash, Duncan, T. |
Disc 4
| • | Keep on the Sunny Side - Johnny Cash, Carter, A.P. | | • | Diamonds in the Rough - Johnny Cash, Carter, A.P. | | • | (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley - Johnny Cash, Dorsey, T. | | • | Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) - Johnny Cash, Traditional | | • | Another Man Done Gone - Johnny Cash, Hall, V. | | • | Pick the Wildwood Flower - Johnny Cash, Allen, J. | | • | Jackson - Johnny Cash, Wheeler, B.E. | | • | If I Were a Carpenter - Johnny Cash, Hardin, T. | | • | Girl from the North Country - Johnny Cash, Dylan, B. | | • | One More Ride - Johnny Cash, Nolan, B. | | • | You Can't Beat Jesus Christ - Johnny Cash, Shaver, B.J. | | • | There Ain't No Good Chain Gang - Johnny Cash, Bynum, H. | | • | We Oughta Be Ashamed - Johnny Cash, Jones, G. | | • | Crazy Old Soldier - Johnny Cash, Kennerley, P. | | • | Silver Haired Daddy of Mine - Johnny Cash, Autry, Gene | | • | Who's Gone Autry? - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | The Night Hank Williams Came to Town - Johnny Cash, Braddock, B. | | • | I Walk the Lined (Revisited) - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Highwayman - Johnny Cash, Webb, J. | | • | The Wanderer - Johnny Cash, Bono | | • | September When It Comes - Johnny Cash, Leventhal, J. | | • | Tears in the Holston River - Johnny Cash, Cash, J.R. | | • | Far Side Banks of Jordan - Johnny Cash, Smith, T.S. | | • | It Takes One to Know Me - Johnny Cash, Carter, C. |
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There are several Cash boxes available, but The Legend--spanning the years 1955-2002 but concentrating on his long tenure at Columbia and, to a lesser degree, his beginnings at Sun--probably belongs at the top of the list. Cash's greatest strengths are dramatized on these four, thematically programmed discs: Win, Place and Show: The Hits; Old Favorites and New; The Great American Songbook (mostly traditional songs); and Family and Friends (collaborations). For starters, consider the staggering depth and breadth of his repertoire (perhaps matched only by those of Bob Dylan and Ray Charles), embracing ancient folk tunes ("Streets of Laredo"), teen pop ("Ballad of a Teenage Queen"), mature contemporary rock ("Highway Patrolman"), gospel ("Were You There When They Crucified My Lord"), topical fare ("Ballad of Ira Hayes"), country standards ("Time Changes Everything"), novelties ("One Piece at a Time"), and more. Then there's the way his spare, spacious sound opens up to take in horns ("Ring of Fire"), strings ("Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"), anything. The Legend includes seven previously unissued sides, most prominently "It Takes One to Know Me," a stirring salute to his wife June. --John Morthland NOTE: There is also a deluxe limited edition of The Legend, featuring a lithograph, a bonus disc, and a DVD, and housed in a 120-page, 12" x 16" hardcover book.
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Icon, Titan, Sinner, Saint, Legend...the Man in Black August 23, 2005
42 out of 44 found this review helpful
It has been said that if Mt. Rushmore could sing, it would sound like Johnny Cash. He was a living legend, and his status has only grown even greater since his passing. This latest CD box set is perhaps the most definitive, at least of his Columbia years, and it's a doozy.
Spanning 4 discs is pretty much the history of American music in the 20th Century...everything from folk, country, blues, soul, rock, patriotic Americana, gospel, novelty...songs from the mountains and the plains and the factories and the fields and the rivers and all points in between.
Johnny could (and did) take any song and make it his. His voice was that of Everyman, a little battered, a little bruised, a little sad, a little mad, a little bent...but never broken, never quitting, mostly hopeful, and oftentimes smiling that crooked smile. This box set does a masterful job of encompassing all of that, and even offers seven previously unreleased gems, such as "When I'm Gray," "Doin' My Time," and the emotionally resonant and wry "It Takes One to Know Me" (an instant classic).
One hopes that Columbia will continue to release all of the albums in their Cash catalog, especially some of his missing 70s and early 80s work. This box set is a giant step in the right direction, and will be treasured by music fans of all backgrounds and ages. Couple this set with his amazing American Recordings UNEARTHED set (and even his 20th Century Masters single disc) and you have a pretty fair overview of Johnny's life in music.
A Satisfying Study of the Man in Black March 27, 2006
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
The 104 tracks on this 4-disc box set goes a long way toward making the case for the impact Johnny Cash has had on music during a nearly fifty-year recording career. If there is a single criticism to be leveled against this collection, it's that there are few songs included after 1986-the year Columbia unceremoniously dropped him from the label. And of those seven songs, none of them are from the string of Rick Rubin-produced albums beginning with 1994's AMERICAN RECORDINGS.
Disc 1, Win Place and Show-The Hits (76:58)
As the title of this disc indicates, these are some of Cash's biggest hits and best known songs, beginning with perhaps his most enduring hit "I Walk the Line" from 1956. This was one of a string of hits Cash had while at Sun (1955-1958) recording with the Tennessee Two (guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant). Tracks 1-6 are Sun recordings. By late-1958, Cash was signed by Columbia and his popularity only increased. His 1963 Columbia single, "Ring of Fire," went to No. 1 on the country charts (and No. 17 on the pop charts).
Disc 2, Old Favorites and New (77:56)
The thematic groupings of some of these discs are a little puzzling. For example, "Cry, Cry, Cry" and "Tennessee Flat-Top Box" were huge hits; why weren't they on disc one? [Okay, it's a minor complaint.]
Again, there are several Sun recordings (tracks 1-7), including "Hey Porter" and "Get Rhythm."
There are also several tracks that illustrate Cash's willingness to work with material outside the country mainstream. On 1979's "Without Love," Cash returns to his rockabilly roots on the Nick Lowe-penned tune with Lowe on bass and Dave Edmunds on guitar. Cash also turns in a haunting version of Bruce Springsteen's "Highway Patrolman." Equally impressive is the raucous version of Elvis Costello's "The Big Light" (one of two tracks from the 1987 Mercury album JOHNNY CASH IS COMING TO TOWN-the other is "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town" on disc four).
In addition, there are three previously unreleased tracks: "Doin' My Time" (1981), "I'm Never Gonna Roam Again" (1980) and "When I'm Gray" (1981). [Note: in the 72-page booklet, the producer says that all the previously unreleased tracks (except "It Takes One To Know Me") were taken from the "House of Cash tapes." This cache of literally hundreds of tapes included demos and outtakes that had never been commercially released. I have read recent articles promising the release of many of these songs, but in the meantime this box set offers a small sampling. All three tracks on disc two are full band recordings.]
Disc 3, The Great American Songbook (71:59)
Like the previous discs, Disc three starts with five Sun tracks, including a couple of Leadbelly songs ("Rock Island Line" and "Goodnight Irene"). Also of note is an alternate take of "Delia's Gone." Moreover, there are two more previously unreleased tracks-"I've Been Working on the Railroad" and "Down in the Valley." On these two demos Cash performs solo accompanying himself on acoustic guitar.
Disc 4, Family and Friends (79:25)
As the title suggests, these are recordings with Cash and special guests. Among the family members he performs with his wife June ("Jackson," "If I Were a Carpenter"), his mother-in-law Maybelle ("Diamonds in the Rough"), his son John Carter ("Who's Gene Autry?"), his daughter Roseanne ("September When It Comes") and his former son-in-law Rodney Crowell ("I Walk the Line (Revisited)").
Friends include Dylan ("Girl from the North Country"), Doc and Merle Watson ("One More Ride"), Ray Charles ("Crazy Old Soldier") and Elvis Costello ("We Ought To Be Ashamed").
There is also a pair of unreleased songs. The first is a toe-tapping duet with Billy Joe Shaver on "You Can't Beat Jesus Christ." The second, "It Takes One To Know Me," closes the set, a song written by Carlene Carter. An attempt was first made by John and June in 1977 to record the song. In 2005, John Carter Cash produced the overdub sessions, including adding a featured vocal turn by Carlene. It's a fitting way to conclude this box set.
There have been dozens of compilations released since Cash's death in 2003, but this is hands-down the most thorough. For longtime and casual fans alike, this is a welcome addition to your music library. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Great set... but does it stand out? August 20, 2005
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
"The Legend" box set is tremendous, especially considering its offering of seven unreleased songs and several hard to find tracks, but given other recent issues of box sets, what's the point?
Consider that "Love, God, Murder... (and now) Life" was only recently issued, covering Cash's entire career, including the American Recording years, which "The Legend" overlooks.
Also consider that American Recordings issued a five disc set called "Unearthed," offering dozens of unreleased songs, and a "best of" disc of Cash's American songs.
Then there's Columbia's "The Essential Johnny Cash" (2 discs) and "The Essential Johnny Cash, 1955-1983 (3 discs).
I could also mention Sun Records unlimited issues of the Sun years, or the classic Bear Family Records, which is truly remarkable offering two versions of "Delia's Gone" to "Legend's" one.
The market for Cash "best of" sets must be growing thin. I would have vastly preferred having four discs of unreleased Cash material (apparently there's enough unreleased material of dozens of discs).
However, among the better collections of Cash's work, "The Legend" does stand out, offering songs not typically offered in box sets, while not overlooking the classics. If you don't already own a box set or much of Cash's material, this is a good set, though you'll need to buy some American Recordings to round it out. And for avid collectors, well, it does offer some unreleased material and some never-before-issued-on-CD songs.
Still, I am critical of Columbia for issuing yet another, albeit great, collection of Cash songs. Even more appalling is the limited edition of "The Legend" which offers a fifth disc of some very rare material. However, at over $200 for that set, it's simply not worth it.
So, five stars because of the set really is that good, only remember there are several other very good sets, which begs the question, what's the point of issuing another?
This is the set we waited for! October 10, 2005
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Without too much hype and going on and on this is the best collection of the works of Johnny Cash that I yet to come across. My wife and me listened to most of this set this weekend and there is some really good stuff here.I like the way they combined the old with the new. I'm sure that a lot of trashing will be going on about this box set but as for me a Johnny Casy fan since the 50's you won't find a more complete set for the 40 bucks that this one costs. Check out the 2 CD set that came out with this one on a collection of June's hits ,that one is also a real find with some really vintage June,Anita,Helen and Maybelle arcives.I recommend both these sets to anyone who is a die-hard Johnny & June fan!
"Enjoy" Joe Kopeck
A Great Collection October 18, 2005
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have always liked Johnny Cash and have several collections that he is part of but the only album of his that I ever actually purchased was a vinyl LP that I have for many years. I read about this set in the paper and decided to buy it. I am extremely happy with it. It includes most of the songs I know him by and many more that are actually new to me. I enjoy them all. I feel that this a great choice for someone like me who enjoys Johnny Cash and wants one definitive album
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