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JOHNNY CASH "American V: A Hundred Highways" Reviews
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AZRating: 8.4
Users rating: 10.0 |
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Release: 4 Jul 2006
Label: Lost Highway
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| Slant Magazine |
Rating: 10.0 |
It's one of the year's most reflective releases and one that will be counted among its best.
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| The Independent |
Rating: 10.0 |
One of the most compelling releases of Cash's career, a work of moving simplicity and emotional directness that underlines how rare those qualities have become in our cynical times.
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| LA Daily News |
Rating: 10.0 |
There may be a melancholy to "American V," but it's not all sadness. You get the feeling Cash took a hard look at death, smiled slightly and went on to the next song.
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| StylusMagazine |
Rating: 10.0 |
The brilliance of American V is how it functions as both a coda and a summation of Cash's career.
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| Entertainment Weekly |
Rating: 9.1 |
Melancholy mix of covers, traditionals, and original compositions, looks at death and gives it a weary shrug and nod.
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| liveDaily |
Rating: 9.0 |
"American V: A Hundred Highways" serves as proof that some things never change. In this case, what remains the same as it ever was is that Cash is king.
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| InsidePulse |
Rating: 8.5 |
This is not only the only real selection of unreleased material, it's also the only one Johnny wanted you to hear.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 8.0 |
A Hundred Highways feels like a deathbed benediction. The snarling brawn and pitch control and oom-chicka-boom good humor of his great earlier recordings were long behind him, but it turns out those weren't the secret of his art anyway.
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| Guardian |
Rating: 8.0 |
The long-awaited V - its chilling opener Help Me aside - is actually less tearjerking and portentous than IV.
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 8.0 |
American V is an undeniably emotional and melancholy listen.
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| All Music Guide |
Rating: 8.0 |
A fitting finale to a great career.
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| Popmatters |
Rating: 7.0 |
A Hundred Highways stands as a fitting, gentle coda, a farewell from a major talent.
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| E!Online |
Rating: 6.7 |
Even on the best track, "Like the 309," Cash complains about his shortness of breath while singing about his casket being loaded on a train, and covers of Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" and Hank Williams' "On the Evening Train" make you wonder if it's too soon for some to hear these recordings.
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| TimeOut |
Rating: 5.0 |
Coming on like a country Tupac, JC is proving to be pretty necro-prolific for a dead dude.
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