Country Christmas

Johnny Cash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 20, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B000001VOK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,497 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blue Christmas

2. Silent Night

3. Figgy Pudding

4. Here Was a Man

5. Joy to the World

6. O Little Town of Bethlehem

7. What Child Is This?

8. The First Noel

9. Away in a Manger

10. O Christmas Tree

11. O Come All Ye Faithful

12. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

13. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cash muddied by overproduction, December 14, 2003

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Michael G. Roth (Vestal, NY, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Country Christmas (Audio CD)

Cash's post-sun, pre-american recordings career has truckloads of great cuts, but too often, especially with 80s-early 90s recordings his voice is stuck into what feels like a casio keyboard preset. This is my problem with this Christmas CD. Cash's voice is cluttered up by hokey background music and there's way too much female chorus on every song. It's like putting Marlon Brando in the middle of a Kathy Lee christmas special skit. Johnny always gets 5 stars. Rest of the CD: one or none. I wish sun would have let him kick out a Christmas LP with just the Tennessee two playing a sparse background.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cash on Christmas, November 24, 2002

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R. Shumskis "highlandbob" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Country Christmas (Audio CD)

I'd like to know what the one reviewer thought he was going to hear when he got this CD. Not "classic Cash"? I think it's very much classic Cash... just doing Christmas songs. The words "Johnny Cash Country Christmas" on the cover should be a clue to this.

For the most part they perform the songs in a 'traditional' style. The only exception is "Figgy Pudding", which I actually find to be rather annoying as a screeching woman continues to ask for her snack. On a couple of the songs Cash performs very little or not at all, letting the womens' group take control. Not that that's a bad thing, though.

If you love Cash's bass and want a nice, simple Christmas CD this would probably be a good buy for you.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, December 11, 2000

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Marcus Piquet (Corona, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Country Christmas (Audio CD)

If you like Cash, you'll like this alblum. Surprisingly introspective with the same great down-to-earth bass.