Johnny Cash: The Man Comes Around (American Recordings)
Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, December 2002
WEIGHTED DOWN by the difficult circumstances behind its recording illness, hospitalisations, two bouts of pneumonia this past year alone, speculation that the increasingly fragile Cash would be over and done with before the album was the subject-matter of the songs on The Man Comes Around looks almost too macabre. Exploitative even. In the hands of anyone other than Rick Rubin, it might well have proved so.
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