Customer Reviews
Johny Cash would be proud - By: Jay, 20 Feb 2007 
Whilst watching the film, I always thought that Johny Cash sang the OST, In fact it was Joaquin Phoenix. Ring of Fire & Walk the Line are classics , & are enhanced by Phoenix's rendition. Likewise, Reese Witherspoon's rendition of June Carter is equally impressive.
Great Songs and great soudtrack - By: J. Kirkland, 21 Jun 2006 
In short I was amazed both by the film & the soundtrack.
Jauquin & Reese gave it there all & boy did it show. They brought this to whole new generation & yes I had heard a little of Johnny Cash before but notin this way! NO imitation here the actors transformed & made it something more...
The songs are all amazing, perfectly crafted & they both deserved an oscar for giving us this an excellent soundtrack its well worth the buy. Highly recommend 10/10
An amazing attribute. - By: Ek Stewart, 27 Apr 2006 Before I start I have to remind everyone that this is Reese Witherspoon & Joaquin Phoenix. They are not trying to be June Carter Cash or Johnny Cash, they are simply telling one of the most wonderful storiesin music history.
Before I saw this film I had no idea who Johnny Cash was(I am only 23) & I had absolutely no interestin country music but after seeing the film I was hooked on the musicin it.
I came straight onto Amazon & purchased the soundtrack, & I haven't stopped listening to it yet.
Reese & Joaquin's voices blend beautifully together & "It ain't me babe", is simply stunning! This is rock & roll & country music at its best(well obviously apart from the real legends themselves). This album has also made me a Johnny Cash fan & I have bought two of his albums. The music is even more appealing when you know the story behind it.
Hey ..... Get Rhythm - By: , 05 Apr 2006 From the second Joaquin Phoenix uttered those immortal words I was HOOKED ,sure he hasn`t the power of JR but it`s good enough for this Cash fan.I may upset purists when I say Ms. Witherspoon sings sweeter than June ever did & is incredibly better looking but June had SOMETHING more.If you talk to her "children" it wasin her BRA (lol) but put June on record with JR & I swear I can hear ANGELS sing.
My only problem with this album ,anfd don`t get me wrong - I LOVE this album ,isin the way the film`s director insisted on the singers NOT trying to BE an immitation of the artist`s voice .I was let down by the lack of powerin Tyler Hilton & Waylon Malloy Payne but man did Johnathan Rice ROCK as Roy Orbison singing You`re My Baby !!!Even before I knew that Waylon Jennings was portrayed by his own son Shooter I KNEW just by looking at him on screen ,but couldn`t they have chosen a BETTER Waylon song?
Now I can only hope that we soon receive a "More Songs From Walk The Line" CD since there were more songs sung on screen than appear here ...
Hollywood Karaoke...but better than you might think - By: IWFIcon, 27 Mar 2006 
The first problem to overcome with this CD is quite simple. The majority of the songs may be Johnny Cash classics, but are theyin any way relevant when Johnny Cash himself is not singing them?
The answer, whilst leaning towards no, is actually more of a maybe. For a start, Joaquin Phoenix is certainly no Johnny Cash but that is not to say that he is without merits as a gravelled country singer. Although he can't hope to bring the gravitas to the songs that Cash did, he does make a pretty decent stab at things & if you can ignore, or push to oneside, the spectre of Johnny himself there is much to enjoy. In particular the versions of Cry Cry Cry, Folsom Prison Blues & Ring Of Fire have a modern charm which is hard to resist.
So then it's onto Reese Witherspoon. Some claim she has an impossible taskin attempting to emulate June Carter-Cash...well I wouldn't neccesarily agree. I've never been a fan of Carter-Cash & feel without the Carter & Cash legacies to keep her going she'd have been long-forgotten. So Wildwood Flower & Jukebox Blues are pretty good efforts which don't prove embarassing at all by any standards.
The other cast recordings are a hotch potch. The version of Lewis Boogie is dreadful, souding every inch the performance parody that probably wasn't the idea, whilst That's Allright Mama & You're My Baby are the kind of tunes to really set your foot tapping, respectfully carried out with the minimum of fuss.
The album closes with the Pheonix/Witherspoon duet Jackson which fizzles with chemistry & tension & proves that for the singing element of the movie alone, both deserve their oscar nominations.
So allin all, whilst struggling to find a "need" to have this CD, I cannot deny that it is a success on many levels. Credit to Pheonix & Witherspoon for rising to the challenge, & credit to prodcuer T Bone Burnett for fashioning a modern, but more importanly respectful, take on some Cash classics.
If you're a Cash fan then give this a try, you might find yourself pleasantly surprised. If you're not a Cash fan but want to check him out on the strength of the film, there are worse places to start, but really your attention should be focussed towards discovering his Sun Recordings, or the American recordings, which became his final legacy.
