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Two solid miles of studios Two A.M., they're all aglow Singers, pickers, record men, Lacy ladies, saints and sin Syrup, sugar, pepper salt A beat, a bounce, a little schmaltz Would be stars and over the hill Hopeful, hopeless, won't and will Can and can't and may and won't Did and didn't, do and don't Session pickers, master hands Making' records for the fans.
Think of how it use to be In Memphis...Tennessee Two and me Timeless, tireless night and day Living just to sing and play Listen to that first play back Watch the faces of Sam and Jack "Well, sir, what do you think of it?" "A stone smash!" "A natural hit." The first joy of my first success Overwhelmed and over blessed. Just think of it, yes, just to know. They'll play it on the radio.
Now, walking music city streets I taste the same old after sweet Enthusiastic Bobby Moore, Proud and Fofilled to the core, Shouted out, "Come gather round, We have done it! That's the sound!"
Eastern glow, fading stars Forget where I parked the car Found it, drove home, want to sleep Forgot my tape, it will keep. I won't soon forget a song I've been singing all night long.
This same scene repeated over Eighteen, twenty times or more Mixed and mastered, finally through. A record I'm proud of , for you.
P.S. Thanks Mama. John R. Cash 1990 Top Of Page
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Info Boom Chicka Boom is one of those Johnny Cash records that touches on everything, from the craziness of being backstage at a Willie Nelson gig to a stirring cover of "Family Bible" (with Cash's mom singing backing vocals) to Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" (done Tennessee Three style) to the custom-fitted "Hidden Shame" (written for Cash by Elvis Costello). But it's Cash's own songs that give this record its merit: the funny and poignant "A Backstage Pass," the solid bluesy morality tale "Farmer's Almanac," the rollicking environmentalist anthem "Don't Go Near the Water," and "I Love You, Love You." "Harley," by Chick Rains and Michael Martin Murphey, is a vehicle made for a singer like Cash, written about a down and outer whose entire life consisted of working the assembly line — until one of those magic moments where a choice gets made, something gets traded in for something gained, and what's lost is its own gain. There's more rock than billy and more country than Willie here, and while the tracks add up to a fine record, it does lack the loose feel of Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town, in part because Bob Moore isn't Cowboy Jack Clement, and the other part is that the family, friends, and regular road band that made that earlier record feel so hand in glove are all absent here. The studio cats like Reggie Young, Hargus Robins, and Roy Huskey Jr. are fine players and they work well with Cash, but they don't make him go as deep as he could with these songs. So it's a good record, but not a great Re-Release Info All tracks have been digitally remastered. Johnny Cash's 1987 debut for Mercury--after his ignominious departure from Columbia a year previously--reunited him with fellow old-timer Jack Clement, who gives him a polished, yet funky (for Nashville) production. On a set that cements his legend with sturdy country songs like "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town" and the old-school gospel of "My Ship Will Sail," Cash positions himself alongside more contemporary artists like Elvis Costello, whose "The Big Light" opens the album. While JOHNNY CASH IS COMING TO TOWN is sonically a world away from his Columbia debut nearly 30 years earlier, the artist's lyrical preoccupations--life, love, and religion--remain much the same. Two years later, BOOM CHICKA BOOM found him reunited with his signature sound (though Luther Perkins had died in 1968, his primitive picking is faithfully recreated here) in a stripped-down production that includes the complex, Costello-penned "Hidden Shame" as well as Cash's simple, charming "I Love You, Love You," which sounds like it could have been written during his days at Sun. ***
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