Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson were the ideal guests in June 1997 for the Storytellers program of the American TV station VH1. On this Rick Rubin-produced recording of the concert they gave, the two country legends play, accompanied only by their two guitars, a succession of classics such as (Ghost) Riders In The Sky, Don't Take Your Guns To Town, Funny How Time. Slips Away, Crazy, Always On My Mind
… and Folsom Prison Blues. In between the songs they tell each other the stories behind them in a very relaxed way. VH1 Storytellers is an honest, sympathetic album, which makes it clear once again that Cash and Nelson, 131 years old together, have a lot to say both in and between songs. (WvdZ)more
