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02-20-2004, 06:02 PM
Cash's Songs of "Life" Due
New set follows successful thematic collections
By Andrew Dansby
Rolling Stone
The late Johnny Cash will again have his catalog tapped for a thematic compilation, Life, due March 23rd on Columbia/Legacy.
The eighteen-song Life will include Cash favorites like "Man in Black" "Ballad of Ira Hayes," "Wanted Man" (written by Bob Dylan) and "Ragged Old Flag" along with "I Can't Go On That Way," a previously unreleased original from 1977. Life arrives four years after the popular Love, God and Murder albums (also released together as a box set), which included some of Cash's best-known songs shuffled onto categorical CDs.
As with Love, God and Murder, Cash was involved with the song selection on Life prior to his death last September of complications from diabetes. He actually e-mailed the final track listing to his manager just four days before passing. "I just [pick] some titles," Cash said of the original compilations. "I don't listen to my records except for when I'm making them. I keep going back to a line of Dylan's: "I will know my song well before I start singing."
Despite being plagued by ill health for several years, Cash remained true to the title of the new collection during his last year. "I don't think about death at all," he said in his final interview with Rolling Stone. "What's to think about? I enjoy my life."
Life track list:
1. Suppertime
2. Country Trash
3. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town
4. Time Changes Everything
5. I Talk To Jesus Every Day
6. You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven
7. I'm Ragged, But I'm Right
8. These Are My People
9. Ballad Of Ira Hayes
10. Oney
11. Man In Black
12. I'm Alright Now
13. Ragged Old Flag
14. I Wish I Was Cray Again
15. Where Did We Go Right (with the Carter Family)
16. Wanted Man
17. I Can't Go On That Way
18. Lead Me Gently Home
New set follows successful thematic collections
By Andrew Dansby
Rolling Stone
The late Johnny Cash will again have his catalog tapped for a thematic compilation, Life, due March 23rd on Columbia/Legacy.
The eighteen-song Life will include Cash favorites like "Man in Black" "Ballad of Ira Hayes," "Wanted Man" (written by Bob Dylan) and "Ragged Old Flag" along with "I Can't Go On That Way," a previously unreleased original from 1977. Life arrives four years after the popular Love, God and Murder albums (also released together as a box set), which included some of Cash's best-known songs shuffled onto categorical CDs.
As with Love, God and Murder, Cash was involved with the song selection on Life prior to his death last September of complications from diabetes. He actually e-mailed the final track listing to his manager just four days before passing. "I just [pick] some titles," Cash said of the original compilations. "I don't listen to my records except for when I'm making them. I keep going back to a line of Dylan's: "I will know my song well before I start singing."
Despite being plagued by ill health for several years, Cash remained true to the title of the new collection during his last year. "I don't think about death at all," he said in his final interview with Rolling Stone. "What's to think about? I enjoy my life."
Life track list:
1. Suppertime
2. Country Trash
3. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town
4. Time Changes Everything
5. I Talk To Jesus Every Day
6. You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven
7. I'm Ragged, But I'm Right
8. These Are My People
9. Ballad Of Ira Hayes
10. Oney
11. Man In Black
12. I'm Alright Now
13. Ragged Old Flag
14. I Wish I Was Cray Again
15. Where Did We Go Right (with the Carter Family)
16. Wanted Man
17. I Can't Go On That Way
18. Lead Me Gently Home