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Title: Beautiful
Review: Johnny Cash returns with another beautiful, sparse, haunting album. As with everything since the terrific first "American Recordings" album, it's the small songs that are the most moving. While "Personal Jesus" may get the most name recognition on this album, it's Cash's renderings of "Danny Boy" (just Cash's voice and a church organ), "Desperado", and his duet with Nick Cave on Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" that really stand out.But most of all, there are the opening and closing tracks. The opening title song is based on the Book of Revelations and shows Cash's continuing strength in Gospel based songwriting. The closing track will be familiar to fans of "Dr. Strangelove" - "We'll meet again". The last thirty seconds are worthy of being played and sung along with at full volume.
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