As is often the case, the second cull through a legend’s work is in many ways more fun than the first. The Legend of Johnny Cash has the career-defining songs, but there’s no getting around the fact that the material is very, very familiar. The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. 2 doesn’t have a “Folsom Prison Blues” or “I Walk the Line” on it, but without the stark songs that made him the Man in Black, the album presents a subtler, more complicated artist. Listen to “Home of the Blues,” “The Long Black Veil,” “Daddy Sang Bass” and “Girl from the North Country” and you still get a dark, socially conscious artist whose ethics are rooted in a desire for the domestic life. Without the biggest hits, which have an unavoidable whiff of the museum to them, the collection delivers everything great about Cash with less baggage. Because Cash grew as an icon in his last days and since his death, a less meaning-laden Cash product is a welcome thing.