"★★★" Rolling Stone

December.20.2010

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Rolling Stone Reviews John Carter Cash “The Family Secret”

If John Cash could turn Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt" into a folk-guitar prayer, then why shouldn't his son remake Blue Oyster Cult's heavy-rocking "Godzilla" as a Tori Amos-style piano ballad? On the follow-up to the tradition-minded album he made with the Carter Family III, 40-year-old John Carter Cash almost totally abandons his blood roots here, with evident glee.  Throughout The Family Secret, there are echoes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, even Metallica (check out the ax gymnastics on "Shadows Cross the Seine" and "Uncle Sam is Dead"). If you're looking for serious family secrets, read his half sister Rosanne's new memoir: The title track here is actually a noisy, Cramps-type rocker about a werewolf coming to terms with his bloodthirstiness.  

Will Hermes, Rolling Stone. Release date November 26, 2010.