Article: Reviews of new country/roots, jazz, classical and pop releases.

Country/roots:

JOHNNY CASH "American IV: The Man Comes Around" (Lost Highway, 3-{ stars)

After the reissues and the tribute albums comes the fall's main Johnny Cash event: a new album. And it's a beaut, even if, at 70, the illness-ravaged Man in Black is showing signs of his age.

Cash's deep-bottomed baritone has lost much of its resonance, but none of its gravity. Framed by spare, deliberate arrangements, he brings new weight, and a sense of indomitable will, to such familiar fare as "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "In My Life," "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," and "Danny Boy," as well as "Hurt," by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor, and his ...

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