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Title: the last hurrah and a final whisper
Review: This closes out the career of the man in black, and no ablum could more effectively do so. The songs are predominatly covers with some of Cash's own songwriting intermingled. The instrumentation is simplistic, predominantly acoustic; none of the songs are musically complicated, and some of the songs are probably weaker than the originals. But the ablum is carried by Cash's strong, but wavering voice that embodies a tired emotion. His singing on this ablum communicates his readiness to die.Cash manages to take songs such as NIN's Hurt, the Beatles In My Life, Simon's Bridge over Troubled Water, and the Eagle's Desperado, and wields them to churn out a very dark, somber album. The overall mood is that this life is tough, but paradise is just around the bend.
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