Personal File

Personal File is a double album, which consists of a collection of private recordings of Johnny Cash from the period 1973-1982, which were found after his death.

The album was released together by Gregg Geller and produced and on 23 May 2006. The liner notes to the album wrote the pop culture critic Greil Marcus. On the album there are both gecoverte as well as self-written songs by Johnny Cash.

Content

These are pictures that show Cash " pastime a few favorite songs from his youth on the guitar is' played and sang. The songs were not dubbed, such as by other instruments were added mixed. The intersections of the selection made with Cash's other albums are limited.

The songs contained on the first CD come primarily from a ten-day session, which took place in July 1973. Cash was after a period of drug abuse in the 1950s and 1960s in good physical and mental health. The second CD brings together gospel music and hymns.

Title list

CD 1

CD 2

Reviews

The merit of Personal File is after Michael Schuh, who discussed the double album for laut.de positive, by no means is a documentary show that grossed cash for themselves gospel songs on the guitar. Rather, it simulates (especially on the first CD ) " a concert situation by it advances the songs interesting stories and anecdotes, as he made it five decades on the stage ." Even otherwise, the album received positive reviews; Rolling Stone awarded (as well as Allmusic ) four out of five stars.

According to Allmusic Personal File can be viewed as a hearing autobiography of one of the greatest autobiographies of America; it is the "Portrait of the Artist as a man, and a humble man at that. "