American VI: Ain't No Grave
- Johnny Cash
- Band Name: Johnny Cash
- Record Label: Lost Highway
- Release Date: Feb 23, 2010
- Summary: The last recordings of the country/rock legend features songs from 2006's "American V: A Hundred Highways" recording sessions and was again produced by Rick Rubin.
- Record Label: Lost Highway
- Genre(s): Rock, Country
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 20
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Mixed: 5 out of 20
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Negative: 0 out of 20
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There are none of the folk-alt-rock karaoke selections of previous American discs on American VI: Ain't No Grave, just 10 wholly appropriate picks that speak to the gravity of ?Johnny Cash's situation and his joy?in both life and death.
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Fortified by his Christian faith, he lends a cracked gravity to souvenirs of cornball sentiment ranging in tone from Ed McCurdy's political "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" to Queen Lili'uokalani's escapist "Aloha Oe," which close an album that also includes the traditional title song, a Sheryl Crow number about redemption, "Cool Water," and the tenderest "For the Good Times" I've ever heard.
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60While one could be forgiven for dismissing American VI as the scrapings of a barrel, the truth is that five of its ten tracks are worthy additions to the Cash canon; no more, no less.
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