Artist: Johnny Cash
Album: Out Among the Stars
Source: Spotify
Pre-listening Notes: Johnny record this album in 1981, but the label shelved the album. I'm sure everyone knows what to expect from Johnny. I can't imagine this will be stylistically too different than his catalog. It'll be country, but it will be infinitely cooler than anything country.
Initial Reaction: The first song, the title track, is a great upbeat country song with the classic, strong vocals that he does best. The lyrics weave a great story. Hopefully this song is a start to a cool album of lost songs. Things don't usually get shelved for no reason, but this particular song, I'm not sure why this was not released 30 years ago.
Random Thoughts: Second song is also pretty good, with additional vocals from June. The trade off vocals from these two always seem to compliment each other pretty nicely. Things slow down a little for the song She Used to Love Me A Lot, which was released as a single ahead of time. It slows down even more for After All, which is a nice piano ballad. I honestly have no idea why these songs took this long to see the light of day, this is better than I was expecting. I'm digging on most of these songs. I could do without the religions songs.
Final Reaction: This was pretty darn good. I like to listen to Johnny every once in a while. I usually reach for the greatest hits packages or Folsom, but this has me thinking I need to dig into his back catalog a little deeper. Country music is not usually something that I am fond of, but the badassery of Johnny Cash helps to almost make the feel of his songs seem closer to rock and roll than country. I have no idea why it took this long to get this out, but it was worth it.
Final Grade: 7.5/10
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