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American IV: The Man Comes Around (Bonus DVD) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Johnny Cash
Label: Lost Highway
Category: Music
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Rating:  75 reviews
Sales Rank: 6136
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 077083
UPC: 440077083092
EAN: 0044007708309
ASIN: B00008IAMD
Release Date: March 4, 2003
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Condition: Complete with original case, disc(s), and artwork. In stock and ships right now. 10% chance the case has small spider cracks in it.
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| Tracks:
| • | The Man Comes Around | | • | Hurt | | • | Give My Love To Rose | | • | Bridge Over Troubled Water | | • | I Hung My Head | | • | First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | | • | Personal Jesus | | • | In My Life | | • | Sam Hall | | • | Danny Boy | | • | Desperado | | • | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | | • | Tear Stained Letter | | • | Streets of Laredo | | • | We'll Meet Again |
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Amazon.com
On first thought, the idea of The Man in Black recording such covers as "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Danny Boy," and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" might seem odd, even for an artist who's been able to put his personal stamp on just about everything. But American IV: The Man Comes Around, which also draws on Cash's original songs as well as those by Nine Inch Nails ("Hurt"), Sting ("I Hung My Head"), and Depeche Mode ("Personal Jesus"), may be one of the most autobiographical albums of the 70-year old singer-songwriter's career. Nearly every tune seems chosen to afford the ailing giant of popular music a chance to reflect on his life--and look ahead to what's around the corner. From the opening track, Cash's own "The Man Comes Around," filled with frightening images of Armageddon, the album, produced by Rick Rubin, advances a quiet power and pathos, built around spare arrangements and unflinching honesty in performance and subject. In 15 songs, Cash moves through dark, haunted meditations on death and destruction, poignant farewells, testaments to everlasting love, and hopeful salutes to redemption. He sounds as if he means every word, his baritone-bass, frequently frayed and ravaged, taking on a weary beauty. By the time he gets to the Beatles' "In My Life," you'll very nearly cry. Go ahead. He sounds as if he's about to, too. Unforgettable. (This special 2003 version includes a bonus DVD with the music video for "Hurt.") --Alanna Nash
Album Description
Bonus DVD contains the music video for "Hurt", directed my Mark Romanek.
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| Customer Reviews:
The Man Comes Around: An Apropos Title August 14, 2008
Roderick Carter (Chicago, IL USA)
It's true what many have said about this album, that Cash takes the songs and makes them his own. They don't feel like covers at all, even though the songs are familiar, especially for young people and baby boomers, with songs like "Hurt," "Personal Jesus," and "Bridge Over Troubled Water." I would definitely share this album with those who appreciate Johnny Cash--young and old alike. The songs are haunting and introspective. They seem to convey an underlying awareness of human mortality and vulnerability, yet their power and clarity is derived from this sense. This feeling is what remains with the listener long after the listening.
Brings tears to my eyes everytime I listen!!! October 14, 2007
marpop (SC)
Johnny Cash has outdone himself with these beautiful and incredibly moving songs.I cannot get enough of this cd- I listen over and over.Each and every song has depth and meaning.I have been a big fan of The Man in Black since I was a kid but this cd(for me) is better than anything else he has done.It is probably better than any artist ever.
Okay I gave it a title July 4, 2007
ratboy
The man's last effort, he gave it all he had left, you can feel it in his voice. Profound, perhaps partly because it was his last, but profound nonetheless. This CD includes his version of Trent Reznor's Hurt, a song I had hoped no one would ever condescend to cover, but the song was almost written just for him, it's haunting. In the liner note he descibes how he spent the last few months of his life working on the title track, taking longer to compose than any other song of his life, like he knew it was his last and wanted to give it his all. If you only own one Cash album, especially if, like myself, you're not a country western sort, consider this one.
A Masterpiece--And A Revelation April 2, 2007
Robert L. Smith (San Francisco, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having grown up in the New York area, where, in the early 1970s, country was definitely not "cool," I have taken more than thirty years to discover Johnny Cash. I am stunned by the remarkable quality of the music I have finally, belatedly, come to love. All of the American Recordings produced by Rick Rubin are fantastic, but, for me, this is the best of the lot. The title track (written by Cash) is especially memorable: it is a superb song, and is framed by Cash's eerie readings from the book of Revelations, in a world-weary voice that sounds as old as God himself. Every track here is timeless and haunting. This is a wonderful album, personal, profound, and unforgetable from start to finish. A true American classic, very highly recommended.
 Not my favorite of the series, but great... January 9, 2007
James M. Surprenant (Manville, RI 02838)
Late last year I "discovered" the American Recordings series Cash did with R. Rubin when I heard his version of Lightfoot's "If You Could Read my Mind" online. It moved me to tears! I rushed out ahd bought V: A Hundred Highways and could not get enough of the disc. I soon added "American Recordings" and "My Mother's Hymnal" along with "IV The Man Comes Around."
Like all the albums in this series, "The Man Comes Around" is a treasure, but so far it has been my least favorite in the collection. I think some of the covers were too "mainstream pop" though executed very well. "Hurt" is of course amazing, and I did like the treatment for "In My Life" and "Bridge" - "Personal Jesus" was another strong cover but for the life of me I can't figure out why "Danny Boy" is on this disc. For me, it kind of breaks up an otherwise good album.
Still, highly recommended...
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