20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Eco-Friendly Packaging) [Original recording remastered]

Johnny Cash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Mercury Nashville
• ASIN: B000MDH8FU
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,088 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town

2. Cry, Cry, Cry

3. Long Black Veil

4. I Walk The Line

5. Tennessee Flat Top Box

6. Get Rhythm

7. I Still Miss Someone

8. Blue Train

9. Folsom Prison Blues

10. Home Of The Blues

11. Cat's In The Craddle

12. Wanted Man

Editorial Reviews

The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."

To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Previous Reviews Here Are Hogwash., February 23, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

The bottom line on this disc is that it contains really strong tracks that Johnny Cash fans will love. The songs (remakes included) are the well-written, well-executed and - here - nicely mastered. Do we NEED Ring Of Fire on another disk? It's fine that it isn't here. And as for the American Recordings, those won't show up on Greatest Hits collections for a while, so no one should be shocked that they aren't here. Is that to say that there aren't omissions? No. I'd have loved a newly recorded version of Boy Named Sue as well. What is really great about this disk is the crisp and clean sound of the newer versions of those early tunes. Every time I play this disk's version of Folsom Prison Blues, I just dig the fact that it doesn't sound like it's being played on a tape recorder through a sock in bowl of punch, under a table in a carpet factory. There will ALWAYS be Johnny Cash compilations getting released. With all the material out there, expect a good number of them to SOUND bad. Good tunes, bad sound quality. Just be judicious and buy the ones you WANT, because lord knows they won't ALL be necessary. That said, this one presents SOME of Johnny Cash's greatest hits with production that is fantastic. Read the track listing and, if this is a set you know you'd enjoy, buy it with confidence.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 1980's Mercury Recordings, March 15, 2003

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Darrin Warren (Osburn, Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

Johnny Cash has been recording since 1955. The majority of this disc contains rerecordings done in the late 80's. The problem with this disc is it's nearly full of remakes from the Sun and Columbia years. Cash put out some good original material from the "Mercury" era that should have been on this disc. At least they put "The night Hank Williams came to town" on here. I would look for only the original recordings and not buy this one.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars you can do better than this..., February 9, 2005

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bonbon (AK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Audio CD)

If you want a low-priced sampler of Johnny Cash, you might want to find one made by Sony. This here is an ill-considered cash-in by Universal, featuring re-recordings made in the 80's. For under ten dollars, there are a number of better discs available from Sony - _16 Biggest Hits_, _Greatest Hits Vol. 1_, _Super Hits_, _Giant Hits_, etc. These are preferable because, for the most part, they feature the original recordings.