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Johnny Cash vault/Derek & The Dominos

Postby lukpac » Sat Mar 04, 2006 4:49 pm

It would be great to see an official release of some of these shows. The full D&D show exists in trading circles and is pretty great (performance, not sound).

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/ ... ault_opens

Johnny Cash's Vault Opens
Revelatory, stripped-down tapes from the early 1970s discovered in archive
In July 1973, Johnny Cash spent several days in the studio at his House of Cash offices in Hendersonville, Tennessee, recording songs and telling tales with just an acoustic guitar and his virile craggy baritone. He sang Tin Pan Alley hits, traditional folk and gospel tunes, new originals and favorite covers by the Louvin Brothers and Johnny Horton, among others. He recited poetry and reminisced about his teenage job as a water boy on a river-dredging crew and the hours he spent glued to the radio, loving and learning the very songs he sang in these sessions.

But Cash, who died in September 2003, never issued any of these intimate performances. The tapes were shelved at House of Cash, where they sat forgotten and undisturbed until 2004, when his son John Carter Cash asked Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of A&R at Legacy Recordings, Sony BMG's reissue imprint, and producer Gregg Geller for help in cataloging the hundreds of reels stored at the Hendersonville office. "Periodically, I would come across a white tape box with the House of Cash label on it that said 'Johnny Cash, Personal File,'" says Geller. "My sense is he had a concept album in mind, and these tapes were the beginning of that process."

Cash's dream finally comes true with the May release of the two-CD set Personal File, compiled by Geller and featuring forty-nine previously unissued solo Cash tracks, half from July '73 and the rest from similar, later House of Cash demos made in the late Seventies and early Eighties. Personal File arrives at a peak of posthumous Cashmania, fueled by the success of the biopic Walk the Line. The single-CD compilation, The Legend of Johnny Cash, is selling more than 40,000 copies a week, according to SoundScan.

But Personal File delivers a Cash even his most devoted fans have never heard before: at the height of his career and vocal power, telling the story of his life in music, as if he were sitting across from you. "This is his 'Basement Tapes,'" says Berkowitz, "as close as you can get to him singing on the porch." There was no documentation with the original reels to suggest Cash ever submitted them to Columbia, his label at the time. But John Carter Cash recalls his dad referring to these sessions at the time of his first album with producer Rick Rubin, 1994's stripped-back American Recordings. "He talked about how he'd made a record like it in the Seventies," John says, "but nobody was interested in putting it out."

The Personal File tapes were not the only riches buried at the House of Cash, now closed. The tape archive, Geller says, "was a large walk-in closet with, I like to think, virtually every recording that ever passed through his hands," including test pressings of Cash's Sun records and publishing demos by Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. On one visit, Berkowitz noticed towers of unlabeled boxes wrapped in brown paper. Inside were multitrack audio masters from Cash's ABC TV series, The Johnny Cash Show, including unaired songs by guests such as Bill Monroe, Stevie Wonder and Derek and the Dominos. "It is extraordinary," says Berkowitz, who is planning future releases of the material (Sony owns the footage from the show). "You hear Louis Armstrong teaching Johnny to sing [Jimmie Rodgers'] 'Blue Yodel' and Ray Charles trying to teach the Carter Family to sing like the Raelettes."

The two-CD Personal File is just the beginning of what may be a long parade of releases from the Cash archives. In June, Sony is releasing Live in Denmark, a DVD of the Johnny Cash stage revue in the Seventies. And Geller says "the intent is to develop some other projects from, as we call them, 'the Hendersonville tapes.' There are other demos with his band, and there's live material."

"I knew there was treasure there," John Carter Cash says of the House of Cash trove. "But specifics -- that was the mystery of it. My father was creative until the very end of his life. He was genius wherever he went, whatever he did. Luckily, there was a place where this stuff was set aside."

DAVID FRICKE

Posted Mar 02, 2006 11:53 AM
"I know because it is impossible for a tape to hold the compression levels of these treble boosted MFSL's like Something/Anything. The metal particulate on the tape would shatter and all you'd hear is distortion if even that." - VD

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Postby Bennett Cerf » Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:50 pm

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.lewr ... tnews.html

Johnny Cash Personal File is scheduled for release in May 2006 and will feature the following tracks:

Disc One:

The Letter Edged In Black

There’s A Mother Always Waiting At Home

The Engineer’s Dying Child

My Mother Was A Lady

The Winding Stream

Far Away Places

Galway Bay

When I Stop Dreaming

Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes

I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen

Missouri Waltz

Louisiana Man

Paradise

I Don’t Believe You Wanted To Leave

Jim I Wore A Tie Today

Saginaw, Michigan

When It’s Springtime In Alaska (It’s Forty Below)

Girl In Saskatoon

The Cremation Of Sam McGee

Tiger Whitehead

It’s All Over

A Fast Song

Virgie

I Wanted So

It Takes One To Know Me

Disc Two:

Seal It In My Heart And Mind

Wildwood In The Pines

Who At My Door Is Standing

Have Thine Own Way Lord

Lights Of Magdala

If Jesus Ever Loved A Woman

The Lily Of The Valley

Have A Drink Of Water

The Way Worn Traveler

Look Unto The East

Matthew 24 (Is Knocking At The Door)

The House Is Falling Down

One Of These Days I’m Gonna Sit Down And Talk To Paul

What On Earth (Will You Do For Heaven’s Sake)

My Children Walk In Truth

No Earthly Good

Sanctified

Lord, Lord, Lord

What Is Man

Over The Next Hill (We’ll Be Home)

A Half A Mile A Day

Farther Along

Life’s Railway To Heaven

In The Sweet Bye And Bye