Johnny Cash

Columbia has compiled another mix of Cash cuts much like the other themed comps Love, Murder and God. As its title suggests, this collection is bustling with songs chronicling his life's trials, tribulations and triumphs. Although all 18 tracks are from Cash's back catalogue, the sequence is captivating.

An addendum to 2000's "love, God, Murder," a theme-based career retrospective
conceived and produced by Johnny Cash himself, Life stands as the great man's final
artistic statement: Frail and devastated by the death of his wife, June Carter Cash, in 2003,
the seventy-one-year-old Cash hung on just long enough to select and sequence the songs
for Life from his massive, near-half-century body of work. On the opening track,... More >