ALBUM: UNCHAINED
SONG: I;VE BEEN EVERYWHERE
DATE: 1996
STATUS: NOT ACQUIRED
Country, real country, made for coal miners and cotton pickers, by coal miners and cotton pickers, was supplanted by new country in the nineties. New country is a pop abomination of Australians and Garth Brooks pretending to be from Tennessee and singing odes to ignorance and stupidity which reassure the dumb that dumb is the place to be. But enough hate for Friday.
Fortunately Rick Rubens got together with Johnny Cash to bring real country back into the light, and Johnny Cash, the man in black rode back into America's consciousness. We're all better for it. Unchained is better remembered for Cash's cover of "Rusty Cage" by Soundgarden. "I've Been Everywhere" wraps up the album in a tone that rarely heard on Cash's American recordings, the fun crowd pleaser that got people up on their feet and stomping around. Originally an Australian song (so Australians actually know a little about real county) written by Geoff Mack, the American version obviously uses the names of American cities in place of Australian cities.
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