The new 2CD set, “Johnny Cash: Bootleg Vol. 3 – Live Around The World” has received more media attention in the past week! Check out excerpts from these reviews:
“Again and again on ‘Live Around the World,’ you hear Cash making deft calculations about his audience and circumstances. He’s loose and jocular at a hoedown in Maryland in 1962, and teasingly self-aware at the Newport Folk Festival in ’64. He powers through that U.S.O. show despite the uncharacteristic raggedness of his working band. And at the Nixon White House in 1970, after some rumblings in the press over a pair of unheeded song requests, he chooses to sing “What Is Truth,” an original tune pointedly sympathetic with the antiwar hippie youth culture.”
— The New York Times
In his liner notes to this third volume of rarities from the Man in Black’s personal archives, veteran rockcrit Dave Marsh couldn’t put it more succinctly: Johnny Cash spoke truth to power. He did it in a voice that was subtly confrontational but always genuine. … Through all of the locations and lineup changes, Cash looms tall and strong, singing his heart out for the underdog.”
— Relix
