| · The record he’s "always wanted to make" – fittingly one of the last things Cash ever recorded.
Stripping away the American Man series’ constant flow of special guests and full arrangements, Johnny Cash’s My Mother’s Hymn Book serves as a truly fitting epitaph for the Man in Black.
Accompanied by an acoustic guitar, Cash runs through the songs taught to him by Mama Cash as a boy, turning each one into a perfect and simple rumination on life, age, death and faith. Like the rest of Cash’s final output, there’s been no finer example of an artist growing into their twilight – My Mother’s Hymn Book is perhaps the wisest album ever released.
Above all else, who but Cash could pull off such a sparse ode to his beliefs and still make it big enough for everyone?
|
Copyright ©2004 FFWD. All rights reserved.