Now, There Was A Song! - JOHNNY CASH***

Seasons Of My Heart/Feel Better All Over/I Couldn’t Keep From Crying/Time Changes Everything/My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You/I’d Just Be Fool Enough/Transfusion Blues/Why Do You Punish Me/I Will Miss You When You Go/I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry/Just One More/Honky-Tonk Girl

With Now There Was A Song Johnny Cash moves away from his then usual rockabilly style to embrace a more full blooded country sound, complete with fiddle, pedal steel guitar and piano backing.

“Most of Cash's music revolves around his trademark boom-chicka-boom rhythm and relatively simple instrumentation, with rock 'n' roll influences that separate it from most commercial country music. Now There Was a Song! paired Cash with a fiddle, pedal steel guitar and piano, with more conventional country settings and rhythms. Cash sounds like he loves these songs and is thrilled to be performing them. He was on top of the world at this point in his career."

“This is one of the man's most consistently good albums, even if paradoxically it's probably the least representative of his trademark sound.”

“This is Cash at his most country. He can often be folk and maybe even a little rock, but this is completely country and perfectly done at that. His voice has never sounded better. The songs are pure country classics.”

“It's one of his most atypical albums, Johnny doing covers of country standards. Pedal steel and fiddles seep into his sound, instruments that Cash had generally shied away from, yet it still sounds pretty good.”

“If there was ever a Johnny Cash album that is true country, this is it, with some great versions of country standards. This is indeed a different Johnny Cash style but he is in excellent shape. I think every Cash fan will enjoy this album.

“This album marked a departure from past Johnny Cash releases in that it is made up of old country standards. It is also unique in that it was recorded at only one session. A notable song from the album is Transfusion Blues, which is a censored version of Cocaine Blues, which Cash would later record under the original title.”

“This is one of the more Nashville sounding releases of Cash's. Weeping steel guitar, fiddle, honky-tonk piano...it's all there.”