……就技术层面，卡什从不是一位伟大歌手：他的音域不广，他的音高常晃，他气息控制的不足有时让他在词尾抓住声音不放。但就通过嗓音展现个性而言，他是个伟大歌手；他的情感范围从辛纳屈式的昂首阔步到一种近乎令人难堪的亲密脆弱，他可自信唱出的音符范围，有多广就有多窄。这样的歌手真不会随年龄失去太多；事实上，他甚至推进了演绎深度……
……诸如“穿上我的死人服戴上我的微笑骷髅戒指/穿上我的幸运墓地靴唱起我的歌”之类歌词……


……Cash was never a great singer in a technical sense: he hadn’t much range, his pitch often wobbled, and his lack of breath control sometimes found him grasping for sound at the end of lines. But he was a great singer in the sense of projecting a persona through his voice; his emotional range, which went from a Sinatra-like swagger to an almost embarrassingly intimate vulnerability, was as wide as the spread of notes he could hit confidently was narrow. Such a singer doesn’t really lose that much with age; in fact, he gains even more interpretive depth……
……with lines like “Got on my dead man’s suit and my smilin’ skull ring/My lucky graveyard boots and song to sing.” ……


https://www.allmusic.com/album/american-v-a-hundred-highways-mw0000421094