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Released
  
May 23, 2000

Artist
  
Johnny Cash

Label
  
Columbia Records

Length
  
2:10:32

Release date
  
23 May 2000

Genre
  
Country music

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Recorded
  
July 30, 1955 - June 1998

Love, God and Murder (2000)
  
American III Solitary Man (2000)

Similar
  
Johnny Cash albums, Country music albums

Love, God, Murder is a Johnny Cash compilation box set (and 84th overall release) released in 2000. It features three themed CDs of songs Cash chose from his catalog. Love features relationship songs, mostly written for June Carter Cash. God is a collection of Gospel and spiritual songs. Murder features another recurring topic of Cash's career, and perhaps his favorite subject, but one that he encouraged people "not to go out and do". Each album was also released separately on the same day. In 2004 Life, a fourth compilation was released.

Contents

Although the albums within the box set are compilations, they demonstrate Cash's lifelong affection for releasing concept albums. Examples of previous Cash theme albums include Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian (1964), Sings the Ballads of the True West (1965), America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song (1972) and The Rambler (1977).

Each of the three discs contains liner notes by a celebrity. Love has liner notes by Cash's wife, June Carter Cash, U2's frontman Bono contributes liner notes for God, and Murder's liner notes are by film director Quentin Tarantino.

Release credits

  • Johnny Cash – Arranger, Liner Notes, Adaptation, Compilation Producer
  • June Carter Cash – Liner Notes
  • John Jackson – Project Director
  • Steven Berkowitz – Producer
  • Chris Athens – Engineer
  • Mark Wilder – Engineer
  • Darcy Proper – Mastering
  • Howard Fritzson – Art Direction
  • Don Hunstein – Photography

    • God

    Another feature of Cash's career is his affinity for another theme: gospel. God pulls from a vast catalog of spiritual songs that includes the albums Hymns by Johnny Cash (1959), Songs of Our Soil (1959), Hymns from the Heart (1962), Sings Precious Memories (1975), Believe in Him (1986) and My Mother's Hymn Book (2004).

    Release credits

  • Johnny Cash – Arranger, Liner Notes, Adaptation, Compilation Producer
  • Bono – Liner Notes
  • John Jackson – Project Director
  • Steven Berkowitz – Producer
  • Chris Athens – Engineer
  • Mark Wilder – Engineer
  • Darcy Proper – Mastering
  • Howard Fritzson – Art Direction
  • Don Hunstein – Photography

    • Release credits

  • Johnny Cash – Producer, Liner Notes, Compilation Producer
  • Quentin Tarantino – Liner Notes
  • John Jackson – Project Director
  • Steven Berkowitz – Producer
  • Chris Athens – Engineer
  • Mark Wilder – Engineer
  • Darcy Proper – Mastering
  • Mike Cimicata – Packaging Manager
  • Howard Fritzson – Art Direction
  • Don Hunstein – Photography
  • Patti Matheny – A&R
  • Tim Smith – A&R

    • Life

    As a result of the success of the first three collections, in 2004, a fourth volume, Life, was released (his 90th overall release). It mostly features songs about social and economic struggle.

    Release credits

  • Johnny Cash – Producer, Compilation Producer, Selection
  • John Carter Cash – Executive Producer
  • Lou Robin – Executive Producer
  • Steven Berkowitz – Producer
  • Andy Manganello – Mixing
  • Joseph M. Palmaccio – Mastering
  • Geoffrey Rice – Mixing Assistant
  • Triana DOrazio – Packaging Manager
  • Howard Fritzson – Art Direction
  • David Gahr – Photography
  • Don Hunstein – Cover Photo

    • Songs

    1I Walk the Line (mono)2:45
    2Oh - What a Dream2:03
    3All Over Again2:14

    References

    Love, God, Murder Wikipedia
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