As you may know, I’ve been participating in Movember for the first time as part of the team at work, MojanOne, growing a moustache to raise awareness and money for men’s health and prostate cancer. It’s coming along quite nicely, if I do say so myself. In fact, it’s kind of growing on me! (Ha)
My goal has been to raise $500, and I’m getting close. So to help things along a little, I’m gonna do like PBS and offer gifts for various levels of donation.
Thanks to my previous place of employment, I was able to get my hands on a couple of pretty sweet deluxe CD boxed sets that are still in the shrink wrap.
Here’s the deal: the first two people to donate $65 will receive their choice of either “Johnny Cash at San Quentin: Legacy Edition” (2 CDs + DVD) or Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run: 30th Anniversary Edition” (remastered CD and 2 DVDs). Click the links for full descriptions. The “Born to Run” set is fantastic, especially the DVD that presents the restored footage of the legendary 1975 concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
And for the grand prize offer, the first person to donate $150 or more will get this ultra-cool, limited edition deluxe “Johnny Cash: The Legend” set which boasts 5 CDs and a DVD and comes in a beautiful 12″ x 16″ 128-page hard-cover coffee table book with a lithograph portrait thrown in for good measure.
Here’s the description from Amazon:
There are several Cash boxes available, but The Legend–spanning the years 1955-2002 but concentrating on his long tenure at Columbia and, to a lesser degree, his beginnings at Sun–probably belongs at the top of the list. Cash’s greatest strengths are dramatized on these four thematically programmed discs: Win, Place and Show: The Hits; Old Favorites and New; The Great American Songbook (mostly traditional songs); and Family and Friends (collaborations). For starters, consider the staggering depth and breadth of his repertoire (perhaps matched only by Bob Dylan and Ray Charles), embracing ancient folk tunes (“Streets of Laredo”), teen pop (“Ballad of a Teenage Queen”), mature contemporary rock (“Highway Patrolman”), gospel (“Were You There When They Crucified My Lord”), topical fare (“Ballad of Ira Hayes”), country standards (“Time Changes Everything”), novelties (“One Piece at a Time”), and more. Then there’s the way his spare, spacious sound opens up to take in horns (“Ring of Fire”), strings (“Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”), anything. The Legend includes seven previously unissued sides, most prominently “It Takes One to Know Me,” a stirring salute to his wife June. –John Morthland
NOTE: This is a deluxe limited edition. In addition to the four discs mentioned above, it also includes a fifth disc, Johnny Cash on the Air, featuring a 1955 recording of Cash’s first-ever radio apperance. Also included is a DVD, Johnny Cash: The First 25 Years, which contains the complete 1980 CBS TV special, and a lithograph portrait of Cash by Marc Burkhardt. The entire package is housed in a 12″ x 16″ hardback book.
It’s really a wonderful item, and at $150 it’s a real steal. If you live outside Toronto, we’ll work out the shipping. If it’s not too much, I’ll cover it. But if it’s a bit of coin, maybe we can split it.
Go to my “Mo Space” and get your donation in before these items are gone!
