For now, words like "legend" and "icon" don't do justice to the Johnny Cash heard on Personal File.   Full text...

Even die-hard fans may be startled to hear Cash's effortlessly deep, full-bodied baritone in Personal File, newly uncovered, secret sessions from 1973 to '82, wherein he appears to have invented the solo-acoustic American Recordings ethos two decades early.  Full text...

All in all, the release feels like a scrapbook of sorts: half entertainment, half autobiography in song.  Full text...

Its 49 songs, all previously unreleased, stem from a work in progress dated 1973-82 (the wilderness years between having his career killed off by Columbia Records and resurrected by Rick Rubin), which his son recently discovered in Cash's former museum.  Full text...

Stunning. It's the best word I can find for this unprecedented collection of music, 49 precious, newly discovered recordings by one of America's most treasured musical giants.  Full text...

The Cash collections keep comin'. But Personal File is unique: two discs of standards and obscurities, most of them unreleased by the man in any form, performed on home recordings between the mid-Seventies and the early Eighties with just voice and acoustic guitar.  Full text...

Personal File is a must-have for all but the most casual of fans, to be shelved alongside The Sun Years, Folsom Prison, and American Recordings as representing the best of the many chapters of the long and amazing career of Johnny Cash.  Full text...

These unrefined recordings can hardly be held up as the legend's finest work, yet they do provide one more thread to be woven into his grand tapestry.  Full text...