The Essential Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash is one of my faves & these CDs are wonderful! So glad I got them!

Its Johnny Cash. What is there to review. Buy it, listen, enjoy

Gotta love Johnny Cash! So glad I made this purchase and gifted it to my Grandpaw. He immediately put the album in his record player

Bought for my mom at Christmas time. Set up her record player & it works very well. Neatly packaged as well

Arrived well packaged. Record is of excellent quality and sounds great.

It’s Johnny Cash, enough said.

One of the greats!

I was initially looking at one of the more expensive compilations that had some of the newer Rick Rubin produced songs, but the price made me consider this album instead. This is a great selection of Cash's work up to about the 1980's. I am 60, and much of this is music that my Dad liked, and which I would never have listened to when it came out. Yes, its not complete. It does not have every single good song he performed. But, you cannot get all the best songs on 2 Vinyl discs, so I think the selection here is great compromise. I like the duets with June Carter Cash, and Bob Dylan, and there are some great standards like Folsom Prison Blues. As I listen to the tracks over and over, I may decide to buy a few more of his records, but for now, this quenches my musical thirst for The Man in Black. The recording quality is very good, but not spectacular. Some of these songs were recorded in studio with a single mic, or maybe only a few mics. Often they were mixed intended for mono playback, and then re-mixed for stereo, but the sound is very good for the age of the recordings. It varies from song to song as I imagine the master tapes varied in quality. As some reviewers here noted, the quality control of the vinyl could use improvement. I returned the first set because they had warps and off-center holes which make the disc spin in a way that the cartridge moves left and right because of the disc, and not because of the grooves. Amazon is great, replaced it in 2 days, and the new one was much better, but also as noted, the holes were not drilled/punched properly. This is not the only new vinyl I have gotten with this problem, so I keep a drill bit handy that I use by hand to clean out the center hole. Once that was done, the new discs played well. Very happy with this purchase