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Unchained In A Rusty Cage
Brand: Cash, Johnny
Product type: ABIS MUSIC
Unchained In A Rusty Cage
SUPERB LIVE BROADCAST RECORDING FROM JOHNNY S 1990s REVIVAL After Columbia Records dropped Johnny Cash from his contract in 1986 - a record company with whom Johnny had recorded since 1957 - it may have appeared to many that the career of this legendary country performer and composer was all but over. Indeed, Cash had not made a successful album for the best part of a decade prior to this point and the trend continued when he signed a short deal with Mercury in 1987 - a label for whom he made a string of equally unsuccessful records between then and 1991. In 1996, Cash enlisted the accompaniment of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and released Unchained (also known as American Recordings II), which won the Best Country Album Grammy in 1998. The album was again produced by Rubin with Sylvia Massy and recorded at Sound City Studios, featuring guest appearances by Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and Marty Stuart. The recording on this CD comes from a show Cash gave at Irving Plaza in New York a few months before the release of Unchained, and features a number of cuts from the album mixed with many classic oldies. Delivering a dynamic performance, Cash was at this time at the high point of his rebooted career, and this recording proves that it was not Johnny who had lost any of the old magic, but merely that his old recording company had failed to properly promote or provide resources and that when a new man with bright ideas worked alongside Johnny Cash, The Man In Black was just as popular with 1990s audiences as he had been with music fans in the 50s, 60s and 70s.