Johnny Cash cd's

"American IV: The Man Comes Around" is not live, but an interesting CD. I heard it when I was auditioning a pair of Harbeth Super HL-5's down at Jeff's in Bloomington, Indiana.

This CD was produced in Johnny's home by a producer who had always wanted to produce one of his albums. Johnny was dying and the producer actually set everything up in Johnny's living room for him and recorded the CD.

As far as story telling, Johnny knew that he was about to die, and you can tell it in his voice and the songs that he chose to record. It's worth giving a listen to.

The last recordings of Cash are available on quality vinyl, too. I picked up the one with "Wayfaring Stranger", "don't back down", and "Bridge Over Troubled water". sounds very good. I found mine at the Analogue Room in San jose, CA

Although they are not live recordings (they are acoustic actually) I would recommend the entire American series. Sonically excellent material and as Krell man says above, tells his story through the songs he chose to cover.

Thanks guys, I think I'm going to pickup Live at San Quentin, and check out his latest release, I've heard the NIN cover he did and it was pretty cool. There is something about that man's voice that is both hopefull and dreadfull at the same time.

Folsom Prison is excellent. Get the new remastered version. Any of the American recording 1,2,3,4 are superb values with interesting songs and sound great. The American box set is also a great value especially since it includes Johnny's hymn book.