UNSEEN CASH
The New Johnny Cash cd from Bear Family Records
After you may have thought that there could be no more new Johnny Cash cds, the innovative Bear Family Records comes up with an equally innovative release!
Titled Unseen Cash, this is a cd and photo album.
Comprising live Johnny Cash performances, this collection features recruiting programmes recorded on behalf of the US military, Country Style USA was recorded for the Army while Country Music Time was for the Airforce. The format of each programme would feature a star singing a few of their contemporary hits alongside a special guest, here Carolee Cooper and Johnny Western respectively. Cash’s songs included There You Go, Give My Love To Rose, Home of The Blues, I Got Stripes and Pickin’ Time.
The cd is accompanied by a 26 page booklet, with award winning writer Colin Escott providing an introduction followed by 14 pages of hitherto unseen photographs taken during the time of the star’s association with Sun Records by Memphis photographer William Speer. Presenting Cash artist in a thoughtful, brooding mood, the photographer had commented: “I don’t usually take smiling jackass pictures. If you’re looking at a person with a smile, all you see is the smile. The smile kills the hold thing. The picture is in the eyes” while Speers’ wife Vancil had developed a sense of who was going to make it and who wasn’t. “It was like an electrical charge in the room. You can tell the famous one or the ones who were going to be famous. They stand out in a room without you even knowing who they are”. The photos in this new cd package clearly reveal that Johnny Cash had that indefinable star quality.
JOHNNY CASH Unseen Cash (Bear Family BCD 17308 AH)
Country Style USA – Stay All Night, Stay A Little Longer (intro); There You Go; Give My Love To Rose; White Silver Sands (Carolee Cooper); Home Of The Blues; Stay All Night Stay A Little Longer (outro).
Country Music Time – Intro; I Got Stripes; Pickin’ Time; Ten Years (Johnny Western); Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Outro.
Unseen Cash, an essential item for all Johnny Cash collectors, will also be released in limited edition 12” vinyl format in April (Bear Family 18009 BAFX)
This new cd adds to the Johnny Cash recordings already released by Bear Family Records, which includes the box sets:
The Man In Black Vol 1 (1954-1958) – 5 cd box set with 36 page booklet (BCD 15517 EH)
The Man In Black Vol 2 (1959-1962) – 5 cd box set with 40 page booklet (BCD 15562 EH)
The Man In Black Vol 3 (1963-1969) – 6 cd box set with 46 page booklet (BCD 15588 FI)
Come Along And Ride This Train – 4 cd box set with 40 page booklet (BCD 15563 DH)
The Outtakes – 3 cd mini-box (cd size) with 100 page booklet (BCD 16325 CR)