Johnny, June Boxes Sets Coming
The music of country music's most beloved couple will be celebrated with a pair of upcoming Columbia/Legacy multi-disc sets. Due June 7, "Johnny Cash - The Legend" and June Carter Cash's "Keep on the Sunny Side - Her Life In Music" will blend well-known and rare tracks in deluxe packages boasting extensive liner notes and vintage photography.
"The Legend" will span four discs and 107 Cash tracks, covering 1955-2002 and all of the Man in Black's major recordings for the Sun and Columbia labels. Seven of the included tracks are previously unreleased, including "It Takes One To Know Me." That track was written by his wife's daughter, Carlene Carter, as a teenager, and recorded in 1977. Carter recently added vocals to the recording that appears here.
The other unreleased tracks are "Doin' My Time," "I'm Never Gonna Roam Again," "When I'm Gray," a demo version of "Down In the Valley" and a version of Billy Joe Shaver's "You Can't Beat Jesus Christ" that all date to the early 1980s, and a 1973 recording of "I've Been Working On the Railroad"
A limited-edition package will include a hardcover coffee table book, a bonus CD recording of Cash's first radio appearance in 1955 and a DVD featuring the 1980 CBS television special "Johnny Cash - The First 25 Years."
The two-disc "Keep On the Sunny Side" examines the 64-year career of his wife, a member of the seminal Carter Family and a spirited and soulful songwriter and performer in her own right. The set boasts 40 songs culled from such labels as Arhoolie, RCA, Dualtone and Columbia. - Barry A. Jeckell, NY

i'll definitely be wanting the june carter cash set - i've been wanting to get into her music more, ever since hearing the wonderful 'wildwood flower'.

I don't understand this thing with Johnny Cash....when did he get to be so popular among rock fans?..I never hear any other country artist mentioned as much as him in seemingly non country circles.

Cash is just Legend..the cool thing about Cash is that he just didnt give a fuck what people thought.

TheRealFiness said:

and he was one of the most thoughtful men in music.

in the early '90s he started recording with rick rubin on the "american recordings" series, and released a bunch of albums featuring cash's covers of modern alternative rock songs - stuff by beck, soundgarden, nick cave, nine inch nails, among others - and a lot of rock musicians sat in with him on these albums - everyone from tom petty to the chili peppers to joe strummer. also, the soundgarden song "rusty cage" was a big motif in his last autobiography, "cash".

Anxiety said:

excuse me while I go reeducate myself.....