NEWS: More Johnny Cash Material On The Way

MUSIC: More Johnny Cash Material On The Way

In case you didn't have enough Johnny Cash discs in your collection, you can expect some more previously unreleased material to come down the pipe soon. One of Cash's 1990 performances is making its way into stores next month.



The Great Lost Performance finds Cash belting out many of his classic tunes. Recorded at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park, New Jersey, it's a nice document of what Cash sounded like ina live setting as he was nearing the end of his days. Plues, you'll have reason to feel all wrm and fuzzy as the set features a duet with the late man's lady, June Carter Cash.

All the good songs.

I'll be picking this up.

Inspired me to put some johnny right now...

hom many times can you hear the same old "hits"???

are you serious?

Whoa. It was probably the night I saw him there. I've kicked myself repeatedly since then for not taping it (it was one of the handful of the 50 or so shows I saw that year that I didn't tape). He was awesome. This makes me smile.

*Puts in VHS tape of a Highwaymen concert*

i steal music, so should you

hes not making a dime so no harm!

i'll be seeding this

I could see releasing this if it was a special event, like if springsteen joined him on stage, but just to release what sounds like a rather ordinary show is kind of lame. I'm sure the Cash archives are full of great unreleased songs, or better live concerts. The only Cash cd I have is him and Dylan in the studio singing traditional country songs. Why not release stuff like that more?

It's like I love Neil young but every 2 yrs he releases a live cd with Crazy Horse doing the same set. How many fucking times canyou hear Cortez the Killer???

I've been wanting the Cash/Dylan/Carl Perkins sessions to be officially released for decades. The boots I have are fairly low generation and pretty high quality, but I'd love to hear them officially. I'd also like to see some Highwaymen stuff released.

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Great song, and most of the times I've seen him (when he plays it - it's not an 'every show' song) it had quite different feels to it.

Very cool.

while i somewhat agree that it seems like they are "cashing in" on his death, everything released thus far has been nothing short of amazing, and i feel this will probably be the same....along with the next American recordings album too...

Ouch.

I wondered when I saw the thread title if this was that. Great so far.

I can't wait. I have hardly anything from that period in his career. Certainly not much that was recorded live. This will be a great addition.

Speakin of Cash, I found this a couple days ago.

totally awesome d day!!! thanks!!

it's always a toss-up when the works of the dead are issued. I guess it gets down to the quality of said works. Wasn't it Matisse who in his will wanted all of his painting destroyed? And then they weren't, it was pretty cool?

Not all the stuff that's been released posthumously
has been good.
That Johnny Cash in Denmark dvd
isn't that great. After watching it once,
I don't think I ever want to see it again.
Its not that great. Not good energy at all.

Obviously you don't get it!

Does he have the words to Boy Named Sue on a teleprompter?

From what I understand, that was during one of the numerous periods where he was coming down hard off of the amphetamines - I think he later said he'd been taking over a hundred hits of speed a day prior to that - so that may have affected his performance. You're absolutely right - very lackluster. I saw James Taylor shortly after a heroin withdrawal and his vocals were spot on but the Magyck wasn't there; some time later when he'd apparently adjusted to and started getting off on his sobriety (that does definitely happen) I got to see JT again and he was awesome.

But over all, most Johnny Cash stuff I've seen/heard has had energy capable of felling a bull elephant.

Probably not at that show - he didn't sing it. But he had a rep for having a steel trap memory even through the pill-and-booze-addled mindrapes he experienced so often onstage, so even when he did sing that song (written by Shel Silverstein, who also wrote the hillarious follow-up "Father Of a Boy Named Sue" in which Sue turns out to be a drag queen) he likely didn't need a teleprompter. I use my laptop as one, but I don't like to play with setlists so I have thousands of cheatsheets to flip thorugh to fake songs I don't really know depending on the crowd and how I feel.

But back on the point - Johnny's approach to his songs changed from tour to tour and often from show to show, so just 'cause we've heard Ring Of Fire on the radio 3000 times doesn't mean there's no piint in listening to a 'new' live version.

And having been at the show, I can attest to the charged up energy JC was emitting that night. The atmosphere was fucking crisp at the Paramount and you could just about see it crackling off of JC.

Dude. Seriously. Enough.

You have to be kidding me

They say that Jimmy Rodgers was the father of country music, Johnny was the goddamn king when it comes down to old school country music!

Does anyone else hate the fact that so many people run around professing love for Johnny Cash these days? From the country establishment on down to the fake ass Rock-a-billy scene of today? I love that Johnny is so well-received now. But, damn...I grew up on his music. When I was 5 I used to listen to my mom's records on our old console stereo. Still have the records, and the stereo BTW. I can't tell you the hell I went through, being made fun of because I listened to Johnny Cash....and Cash wasn't cool.

Of course, being born in '77...and growing up in the 80s, fake was king. And Johnny was about as honest and real as you could get. Maybe that's the key. My generation rejected him in favor of hair bands, Michael Jackson and Madonna. But the one that followed, learned to appreciate that without Johnny Cash, there would have been no Rockabilly, and Beatles, and no punk.