Is the long-awaited album of 's final recordings, the basic tracks for which (i.e., 's vocals) were recorded in 2002-2003, with overdubs added by producer after his death on September 12, 2003, at age 71. Between 1994 and 2002, and had succeeded in fashioning a third act for the veteran country singer's career, following his acclaimed 1950s work for Sun Records and his popular recordings for Columbia in the 1960s and '70s. In the '80s, 's star had faded, but reinvented him as a hip country-folk-rock elder at 62 with (1994), his first new studio album to reach the pop charts in 18 years. Yamaha Motif Xs Rapidshare Premium.

American IV: The Man Comes Around is the 87th studio album by American music artist Johnny Cash. Released in 2002, it is the fourth in Cash's 'American' series of albums. 16 rows Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for.

(1996) and (2000) continued the comeback, at least as far as the critics were concerned, though none of the albums was actually a big seller. But (2002), propelled by 's cover of ' 'Hurt' and a powerful video, stayed in the pop charts longer than any album since 1969's. By 2002, however, was in failing health, homebound and in a wheelchair, and he suffered a personal blow when his wife,, died on May 15, 2003. The American series, which posited as an aged sage and the repository for a bottomless American songbook, had already shown a predilection for gloom in the name of gravity; it's no surprise that the fifth and final volume would be even more concerned with, as three earlier compilations had put it,,, and. The ailing septuagenarian certainly sounds like he's near the end of his life, but that said, he doesn't sound bad.

Was never a great singer in a technical sense: he hadn't much range, his pitch often wobbled, and his lack of breath control sometimes found him grasping for sound at the end of lines. But he was a great singer in the sense of projecting a persona through his voice; his emotional range, which went from a -like swagger to an almost embarrassingly intimate vulnerability, was as wide as the spread of notes he could hit confidently was narrow. Such a singer doesn't really lose that much with age; in fact, he gains even more interpretive depth. Listening to this album, one can't get around the knowledge that it is a posthumous collection made in 's last days, but even without that context, it would have much the same impact. The album begins with two religious songs, 's 'Help Me,' a plea to God, and the traditional 'God's Gonna Cut You Down,' which, in a sense, answers that plea. The finality of death thus established, launches into what is billed as the last song he ever wrote, 'Like the 309,' which is about a train taking his casket away. The same image is used later in the cover of ' 'On the Evening Train,' in which a man and his child put the coffin of a wife and mother on another train.