From Hollywood Reporter again:
April 20, 2006
Cash's 'Personal File' ready for eager public
By Chris Morris
Two new titles by top contemporary country acts, Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang" and Toby Keith's "White Trash With Money," slugged it out for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week. But elsewhere on the chart, Johnny Cash continued to abide.
"The Legend of Johnny Cash," the multilabel career retrospective devoted to the late country icon, rests at No. 24 this week; the package, issued late last year, has sold more nearly 1.6 million copies. Cash's catalog remains on fire: "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" has scanned more than 200,000 units since the fall and is still a fixture in Amazon.com's top 10, while last year's boxed set "The Legend" has moved 125,000 units to date.
Expect a new wave of interest in Cash next month: On May 23, Columbia/Legacy will release "Personal File," a two-CD set of previously unheard solo material, recorded by Cash from 1973-80 and culled from the musician's studio vaults.
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April 20, 2006
Cash's 'Personal File' ready for eager public
By Chris Morris
Two new titles by top contemporary country acts, Rascal Flatts' "Me and My Gang" and Toby Keith's "White Trash With Money," slugged it out for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week. But elsewhere on the chart, Johnny Cash continued to abide.
"The Legend of Johnny Cash," the multilabel career retrospective devoted to the late country icon, rests at No. 24 this week; the package, issued late last year, has sold more nearly 1.6 million copies. Cash's catalog remains on fire: "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" has scanned more than 200,000 units since the fall and is still a fixture in Amazon.com's top 10, while last year's boxed set "The Legend" has moved 125,000 units to date.
Expect a new wave of interest in Cash next month: On May 23, Columbia/Legacy will release "Personal File," a two-CD set of previously unheard solo material, recorded by Cash from 1973-80 and culled from the musician's studio vaults.
( Read more... )