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Apr 17, 2018The gathered family, friends, and artists on Forever Words have completed Cash's newly found poetry and lyrics into well-crafted collaborations.
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MojoApr 2, 2018It all shines a light on Cash's enduring artistry. [May 2018, p.94]
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Apr 2, 2018Even the simplest songs here are studded with magic moments that shift the centre of gravity.
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Apr 16, 2018What unfolds is a kind of Great American Songbook approach to Johnny Cash, traversing the country and western, mountain bluegrass, blues, and Scotch Irish balladeer range of his own work.
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Apr 9, 2018Johnny Cash: Forever Words has some brilliant moments and is an often-moving tribute to Cash's gifts as a writer, but as a listening experience, it's unfortunately inconsistent. Maybe some of this was better left on paper.
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Apr 5, 2018Just as Billy Bragg and Wilco helped reanimate and modernize the words of Woody Guthrie with their Mermaid Avenue albums 20 years ago, Forever Words is a moving, illuminating window into the grace, darkness, mercy and struggle that Johnny Cash spent his entire life documenting in song.
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Apr 2, 2018There’s plenty to both enjoy and mull over as Cash’s thoughtful, often poetic lyrics spill out in a variety of settings. It makes this collection worthy of the man’s iconic status, which is saying plenty.
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