The simple truth is that Johnny Cash could read the phone book and make it compelling. At times this set sounds like a deathbed recitation rather than a collection of songs, but the man's aura and mystique carry the day. Atop Rick Rubin's spare arrangements, Cash makes every song he interprets his own.
01 I wont back down 02 Solitary man 03 That lucky old sun 04 One 05 Nobody 06 I see a darkness 07 The mercy seat 08 Would you lay with me (in a field of stone) 09 Field of diamonds 10 Before my time 11 Country trash 12 Mary of the wild moor