Man in Black : Johnny Cash Live in Denmark 1971
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Actor: Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, June Carter, The Carter Family, The Statler BrothersBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-07-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 85662
Studio: Sony
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- When looking back on the amazing career of Johnny Cash, it is difficult to imagine that at one point, his larger-than-life alter ego the "Man In Black" did not exist. The song was written and debuted in 1971, as Cash's response to all of the ills he saw in the world at the time. By that time, the Johnny Cash Show - the group that included June Carter Cash, The Carter Family, Carl Perkins, The
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Movie Review: MUST HAVE! High Quality Blast From the Past! Johnny Cash & Co. at a Career Peak!
Summary: 5 Stars
MAN IN BLACK: JOHNNY CASH, LIVE IN DENMARK 1971 is a must have DVD for any and all Johnny Cash fans! The picture and sound are great, and so are the performances!
If you have seen the 2004 biography movie, WALK THE LINE, then you can place this concert performance a few years after the events shown in the film, at a time when Johnny's career is near it's absolute highest peak of fame and fortune, having attained two big selling live albums and a popular, prime time, hit TV show, all around the late 1960s and early 1970s!
On LIVE IN DENMARK 1971 the singing by Johnny is great and so is everybody else's, and the band sounds great, too! Around age 40, sober, past his drug addicted years and settled into a stable, married, family life with June Carter, Johnny's singing is more confident and capable than at any other time in his career, in my opinion.
The opening song is a confident version of "A Boy Named Sue." Next is the best performance of "Sunday Morning Coming Down" that I have ever heard. "Walk the Line" is a little too fast and hyper, compared to the original classic, but Johnny pushes his voice more, and it is a very decent version.
Because of the influence of his TV show, where he always had guest artists, Johnny then lets Carl Perkins come out of the backing band to sing lead on two of his own classic songs, "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Matchbox." Actually, Johnny and Carl go way back to the 1950s together, and Johnny suggested the song title to "Blue Suede Shoes" which Carl then wrote alone, and then Carl did likewise, suggesting the title "Walk the Line," which Johnny then wrote! Carl is like a cross between Johnny Cash and Chuck Berry, in his appearance here, playing lead electric guitar and dancing around like Chuck Berry, but looking like Johnny Cash in a 1950s style stage outfit.
Johnny sings three Kris Kristofferson songs on this DVD. "Me and Bobby McGee" has the melody tinkered with, so it does not beat the Janis Joplin version, but it is still a good song here. Later, "Help Me Make It Throught the Night" is very good, as a duet with Johnny and June.
"I Guess Things Happen That Way" is a good song, but it only gets one verse/chorus, so it has been cut in half for this performance. That's too bad.
The Statler Brothers sound great, doing two of their songs, including their biggest hit, "Flowers on the Wall!"
Johnny comes back for "Folsom Prison Blues," which is too fast compared to the classic hit single version, but it is still good on this DVD.
June joins the show now for a few duets as the amount of artists on stage continues to grow, now.
The Carter Family do an instrumental with Mother Maybelle, but the sound man doesn't mic her autoharp, so you can barely hear the melody, which is unfortunate. The Carter girls and Johnny then do a tribute song to Mother Maybelle, which is a little syrupy, and not a great song, but somehow very sweet to see Mother Maybelle waving off a tear, at the end of the song. This is probably one of my favorite moments on the DVD.
The last few songs are some great gospel tunes, using everybody. The singing sounds amazing, especially when combining the Carter ladies with the Statler Brothers!
This DVD is 20 years before Johnny Cash's LIVE AT MONTREUX DVD, and DENMARK 1971 is way better than the Montreux concert of two decades later. This DENMARK 1971 is also better than JOHNNY CASH -- A CONCERT BEHIND PRISON WALLS also on DVD, which would be recorded about 5 years after this DENMARK show.
On this LIVE IN DENMARK 1971, everybody is singing and playing well, and in a very good mood, making this a very enjoyable TV concert! The only thing that could have made this DVD any better would have been to have a longer concert with more songs, (compare it to Johnny's newly released live CD, AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, where they do play longer, not restricted to a TV schedule), but what is here is primo stuff, very enjoyable! I can highly recommend LIVE IN DENMARK 1971 to any Johnny Cash fan, it is well worth buying and watching!
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