Reviews
"...folk songs, gospel, bluegrass, Wild West ballads, rockabilly, and heartfelt odes to both the counterculture AND the flag...The box's unifying factor is, of course, Cash's voice, a rich, remarkable instrument..." - Rating: A-, "...Like Bo Diddley, another minimalist who improves with time, Cash gains monumentality as one spare track builds off another toward infinity....he's certain to be numbered among the century's great folksingers..." - Rating: A, "...a dream come true for his fans....If Elvis is the King, Cash is the Knight (in black, of course)...", "...Throughout, Cash's delivery carries the ring of truth...Cash's songs have an accessibility and believability seldom found, even among country's 'new traditionalists'...", Ranked #5 in the Village Voice's List of the 10 Best Reissues of 1992.
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