After listening to UNEARTHED for a couple weeks, I’m convinced it’s not only all the stuff that Rubin should have released originally, it’s one of the best box set concept/executions yet, and if you come anywhere near adoring Cash, make sure it’s under your tree. Greil Marcus is tough on the whole (it was underway well before his death), but entertainingly rhapsodic as usual (yeah, right, radio’s gonna get behind this). Plus, how do you trust a guy who best his reputation on NATALIE MERCHANT and COUNTING CROWS? Milo Miles has a much better take on Cash. See also Milo on Miles Davis’s JACK JOHNSON box, which Christgau assigns a B+, a tough grade for all its revelations.
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