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My Mother's Hymn Book
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602498613337
Label: Lost Highway
Manufacturer: Lost Highway
MPN: 000236202
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Lost Highway
Release Date: April 06, 2004
Studio: Lost Highway
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Rating:  - A Very Worthwhile Collection
I am not normally a huge fan of hymns. I love contemporary Christian music, but also enjoy the occasional hymn.
This particular collection is great. The selected songs are mostly classics in this genre. They are sung by an American cultural icon who had a significant spiritual journey himself. They were recorded close to the end of his life. These also have a common theme: Looking forward to eternal life after leaving this one. He had indicated that this was his favorite of the ... Read More
Rating: - One of Johnny Cash's Best Albums of His Entire Career!
Johnny Cash has released many Gospel albums and compilations during his half century career. MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK is easily his best album of Gospel tunes that is still in print and still readily available on CD, recorded and released all at once, (not part of any compilation album).
MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK by Johnny Cash is a great album to listen to, whether you like Johnny Cash, or Gospel music, or both. The quiet, voice and acoustic guitar only sparseness seems very personal and expressive. ... Read More
Rating: - My Mother's Hymn Book - - Johnny Cash
Thanks was the one I was looking for.
Rating: - What The Man in Black was meant to be
Finally, Johnny Cash finds what he was meant to be. Just his guitar playing, his voice, and a great selection of songs make this a must have. Johnny was a legend and this is his album, what he wanted to do all of his life. Buy this it is wonderful.
Rating:  - Stark simplicity, sincerity and sacredness...
The 15 songs selected by Johnny not that long before his death all came literally from his mom's favorite hymnal. That is the weakness of the effort, to me, because of a certain lack of variety in content. I agree also with an earlier reviewer who noted that Johnny's guitar work was too subdued here. (Perhaps in his illness, his pickin' suffered more than his vocalizing. While not as strong a voice as he showed on his 1993 American Recordings debut, it really is better than I expected.) Johnny does have some ... Read More
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