母亲的赞歌集 / 乡村歌手乔尼·凯什03年录制

My mother had an old book called Heavenly Highway Hymns. She used to sit and play those songs in it - old church songs, country gospel songs, dozens of them - all the way through, over and over in her lifetime. My mother loved that book. It's mine now, and it's kind of dog-eared and ragged, a little bit like I am, and I love that book too. So when I started picking out songs for an album of my favorite church and gospel songs, I went to my mother's hymn book, and I found the ones I wanted to record.

The songs in that old book mean more to me than I can tell you, so I'll just sing 'em, me and my guitar, simple, no adornment, knowing that God loves music and that music brings hope for a better tomorrow. You asked me to pick my favorite album I've ever made and this is it, My Mother's Hymn Book. On that album I nailed it. That was me. Me and the guitar, and that's all there was in it and all there was to it. I'm so glad that I got that done.

--- Johnny Cash (1932-2003)