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  1. Audio CD: Release Date 2006-05-16
  2. Publisher: Sony
  3. Artist: Johnny Cash
  4. Sales Rank in Music: #3369

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As foreboding a figure as Johnny Cash was, his son John Carter Cash writes in liner notes to this excellent CD, he was also a big kid: "a fun-loving, easygoing, laughing man." That's not to say he was more inclined to skateboard over the line than to walk it, only that given his mesmerizing voice and his gift for storytelling, he had an enviable way of relating to kids. Thirty years on, parents who pick up this disc will find not a lot has changed: In 15 songs never before released on CD--four of which are bonus tracks not included on the 1975 classic--the Man in Black melds the silly with the sweet, the madcap with the meaningful, and emerges as a country-folk Pied Piper any kid would kill to have for an uncle. "Nasty Dan," the opener, will be familiar not only to those who grew up singing along to the original LP, but also to subsequent generations of "Sesame Street" watchers (Oscar duets on a later version). But for most, the rest will arrive as pure revelation. "Old Shep," a dog song, deserves placement on a disc of classic pet tributes, if such a thing exists; "Tiger Whitehead" treads fearlessly through wild bear territory; "Ah Bos Cee Dah" is nonsensical noodling with the language at its most brilliant; and "I Got a Boy and His Name Is John," a duet with the great June Carter Cash, steers the modern listener to a long-lost place where love of family was enough for a kid to get by on. --Tammy La Gorce
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4.3 out of 5 stars (36 customer reviews)

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Strangely Essential, May 24, 2006
Soulboogiealex (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Johnny Cash Children's Album (Audio CD)
The Johnny Cash must be one of the oddest entries in the Cash Library. It is at the least a very different Cash than we get usually. Yet it seems to make perfect sense. This reissue allows us to get a more complete picture of the man. Like his son John Carter Cash writes in the liner notes; "I see the dark, foreboding figure of Johnny Cash far too much these days. This dark side of John R. Cash is real and significant, but there is another that is just as true, and for us, those who love the man, even more important to remember; The big kid".

There is a lot to enjoy on this record. The moods are endearing, moving and joyful. A side of Cash that usually under lit; although this is an album for children, adults will find their share here. The Children's Album is a true family album.

As a musician he was perfect for children songs. The rhythms are simple, the song structure plain and the stories imaginative. Hearing this album leaves you wondering why Cash didn't do...Read more


11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Simply and profoundly whimsical, August 19, 2006
Micheal Knecht "Brearton" (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Johnny Cash Children's Album (Audio CD)
Very refreshing to hear such a whimsical childhood album that not only will entertain your kids but you as well. As thouroughly entertained as I was, I can't imagine any adult feeling less so. Really. I actually found myself listening to the album after my son had gone to bed. Like much of children's entertainment, there is a silver and simple profundity in the lining - a moral to the stories that Johnny Cash sings and an adult perspective that is framed by the simple honesty and goodness that is childhood. "There's a Bear in the Woods" contrasts the cynical skepticism of an adult as he seeks to discredit the imaginative truth of childhood. Yeah, maybe there wasn't an actual bear in the woods, but in spite of that fact the kid comes off as more honest than the adult who doubts him. Quite frankly I am astonished at the opinion of the reviewer who panned this album. Apparently they think raising a child should include inculcating some type of political message. Her comments...Read more


4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Kid in Black, July 11, 2006
Bjorn Paige (Sunny San Rafael, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Johnny Cash Children's Album (Audio CD)
What a strange album. For those wanting to help their youngsters learn early on to walk the line, this amalgam of song and spoken word is a strange but wonderful introduction to the Man in Black. Some songs, "Nasty Dan" and "Tiger Whitehead" for example, are simply swell -danceable for the very young and their buffoonish parents- other tracks drag, and the final monologue, which includes the line "Russians are red," smacks of the absurdity that underlies the concept of a children's album by the man who "shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." Cash fans, who know that many Cash albums come with one or two songs that will make them blush at the oddity of their message or delivery (Like "Live at San Quentin?" ...remember "Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart"), will be willing to look past the drippy "Little Magic Glasses" and see the true warmth of songs like "I Got A Boy And His Name Is John" and the album as a whole. Others, stick to Raffi.

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