Johnny Cash – Come Along And Ride This Train (4 CD Boxset) (1991)
Genre: Country | 4CD | Label: Bear Family | Release: 1991 | MP3 320 kbps | 666 MB
It’s a statement of Johnny Cash’s longevity that the eight albums collected here — each one a concept collection devoted to American historical themes — were considered worthy and viable commercial releases back when, and that most were very successful. This four-CD set assembles Ride This Train, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Bitter Tears, Ballads of the True West, Mean as Hell! (Johnny Cash Sings Ballads from the True West), America: A 200 Year Salute in Story and Song, From Sea to Shining Sea, and The Rambler, all in one place. They fit together as a body of work, and he put a lot of heart into all of these songs individually. He also engendered a good deal of enmity from members of his core audience of white Southerners, for the sympathies he displayed for the plight of Native Americans on 1964′s Bitter Tears. America: A 200 Year Salute is the strongest of the other albums, covering the widest scope and allowing Cash to tie together several singing and songwriting traditions. Cash’s two Western-song albums make a natural pairing, as do his two albums of railroad-related songs. The last of the four discs, encompassing From Sea to Shining Sea and The Rambler, is a logical pairing, the latter album being the realistic, somewhat theatrical contemporary equivalent to the former’s folk music/history travelogue. Most of the dialogue sequences don’t work too well, but the best of the songs come up to Cash’s highest standard.
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