One moment entertaining the foam of the United States in prisons and then performing in front of a well-behaved audience of young and old in an IKEA wood-clad television studio in Denmark; Johnny Cash - just clean, in love and in the Lord in 1971 - didn't turn his back on this DVD. He speaks to the audience with an amiable smile, even with a piece of Danish read aloud and he shows all his hits. The
… extra guitarist in his loyal backing band the Tennessee Three turns out to be none other than Carl Perkins who, once revealed, uses his Blue Suede Shoes with a lot of fire. June Carter will of course be present, as will her mother and two sisters and when the close harmony quartet The Statler Brothers joins the stage, the Lord is praised musically. Live In Denmark is an amusingly dated document of a warm and colorful (wide legs, wide collars and colorful puffy dresses) revue in a time when happiness still seemed quite normal: those womb-like seventies. (MR)more
