Columbia/Legacy begins its 70th-birthday celebration of the craggy country legend more interested in the cash that comes in bags than in John R. himself. "The...
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Issued in commemoration of Cash's 70th birthday, this double CD is a good survey of 1955-1993 career highlights (and a different release than the similarly titled three-CD...
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Johnny Cash is a living legend. (Which means he's outlived most of his critics and is virtually beyond reproach no matter what anyone says). Nearly 50 years since he debuted...
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Johnny Cash's fourth project with producer Rick Rubin continues on the same path as many of their previous releases: Cash's warm and rumbling baritone over minimal...
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This reissue of Collection by Sony comprises the same three titles included in the original box set, as it packages together two of Johnny Cash's finest offerings -- At...
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That this particular album was the source of the "Man in Black" image for country icon Johnny Cash is a good example of how the public remembers what it wants to and forgets...
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Wanted Man 10/18/1994, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
This collection compiles the best recordings from a series of mediocre (and now out-of-print) albums Cash recorded for Mercury Records in the late '80s and early '90s. To...
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Wanted Man is an uneven, but useful, sampler of Johnny Cash's brief, scattershot time at Mercury Records. For every strong track like "Wanted Man" or "The Night Hank...
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Columbia/Legacy's 1994 release Personal Christmas Collection contains a selection of 12 songs Johnny Cash released on various Christmas albums throughout his time at...
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Cash usually wrote his own songs; here, however, he covered other people's, including George Jones, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Marty Robbins and Ernest Tubb. Some of the...
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This is an outstanding album of covers of old country songs, from the familiar (Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, George Jones) to lesser-known gems. ~ Michael McCall, All Music...
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"The Ballad Of Ira Hayes," Cash's 1964 singles about an American Indian at Iwo Jima, came from this album, one of the most overtly political albums that Cash would record...
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Though on the surface Bitter Tears is just another installment in the seemingly endless series of Americana albums that Johnny Cash released in the '60s, it was a more...
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This collection of (mostly) blue-collar work songs includes versions of "The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer," Jimmie Rodgers' "Waiting For A Train," "Busted," "Casey Jones"...
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Where Ride This Train was about railroads and how they shaped America, Blood, Sweat and Tears is not only about the folklore of trains, it's about the fables of the American...
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Country Christmas features Johnny Cash performing a variety of holiday favorites. Featured performances include "Blue Christmas," "Silent Night," "Figgy Pudding," and "Here...
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Technically, Ring of Fire/The Best of Johnny Cash isn't a greatest-hits collection, but it does contain a number of his greatest performances and singles, including "Ring of...
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The Survivors 1/1/1982, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
This 1981 live recording of a Cash show in Stuttgart, Germany features impromptu gospel duets and trios with Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis. The performances are ragged,...
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In 1981, all three of these Sun Records alumni were touring Europe. Both with the night off, Lewis and Perkins attended a Johnny Cash concert in Stuttgart, West Germany....
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The Man in Black: 1963-1969 is Bear Family's fourth box set of Johnny Cash recordings and the third in The Man In Black series. 1963-1969 picks up where the previous Man In...
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Sony repackaged and re-released three good Johnny Cash albums from the '60s -- Ring of Fire, Blood, Sweat & Tears and Ballads of the Indians -- as a slip-cased box set. It's...
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Not to be confused with the 1969 album of the same name, Sony Music Special Products' Hello, I'm Johnny Cash is a collection of 14 random highlights from Johnny Cash's...
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There have been no shortage of Johnny Cash compilations over the years, particularly of his classic Columbia recordings. There's something for whatever your taste --...
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Many of Johnny Cash's biggest hits, among them "Ring of Fire," "Understand Your Man," and "A Boy Named Sue," are included on Legacy's 16 Biggest Hits. ~ William Ruhlmann,...
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It's a statement of Johnny Cash's longevity that the eight albums collected here -- each one a concept collection devoted to American historical themes -- were considered...
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Classic Cash 10/19/1988, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Watch out! This album, produced by Cash himself, features 20 of his best-known songs, but it's really a collection of new recordings from 1988. You'll want the originals,...
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Johnny Cash's period with Mercury Records was not his finest. It wasn't that he recorded a batch poor records; it was the fact that those records were barely heard by...
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Unchained 11/5/1996, Yahoo! Music, Brian Mansfield
Cash's second record for American Recordings wasn't the watershed American Recordings was, but it was a fine case of a new generation of rockers discovering the singer's...
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For all of its critical praise, the all-acoustic Rick Rubin-produced American Recordings was slightly listless. For the follow-up, Cash and Rubin wisely decided to ditch the...
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If the Springsteen tunes hadn't been included, this would still have been a good album. But Cash sinks his teeth into "Highway Patrolman" and the title tune and gives them...
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The title of Sony Music Special Products' Johnny Cash compilation, Giant Hits, shouldn't be taken too literally. Sure, the first five songs -- "Don't Take Your Guns to...
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Since the themes of budget-line collections are often impossible to discern, it has to be said that Sony Special Products' Here's Johnny is welcome indeed. No, it's not a...
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One of the projects Johnny Cash wanted to do when he was on Sun Records was to record an album of songs from the Old West. Of course, Sam Phillips wouldn't hear of it, but...
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Sixteen songs and you're going to adequately sum up Johnny Cash's take on love, the most common element in his lyrics (as love is in the lyrics of most popular music...
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Of the three thematic Cash CDs simultaneously released in the spring of 2000 (the others are God and Love), Murder is the most sensible. For one thing, there are actually...
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God is the weakest of the thematic CD trilogy that Cash released simultaneously in the spring of 2000 (the others being Love and Murder). It's not that Cash himself...
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Each of the three CDs in this box set are comprised of 16 songs devoted to a single theme: love, God, and murder, of course. And each of the three CDs is available...
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As great as Columbia's Essential Johnny Cash box is, their decision to exclude this album's best songs prove that Cash's catalog needs more than three discs' worth of...
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With a title like Ultimate Box Set you may expect a complete overview of the several decades Johnny Cash made music, however this set only incorporates 30 of his early Sun...
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Johnny Cash: The Collection features a variety of the artist's most well-known songs. Featured performances include "Ring of Fire," "The Ballad of Ira Hayes," "One Piece at...
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A solid collection of original recordings Johnny Cash made for Sun records between 1955 and 1958. Includes such classics as "Big River," "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the...
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The Man In Black shows hints of gray on American III: Solitary Man, his first studio album since being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1997. While the inevitability of...
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There are a lot of collections of Johnny Cash's classic Sun sides, but this 32-track compilation is certainly one of the best. The fidelity is absolutely top-notch, taken...
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Cash finally had to get out of Nashville to record an album featuring only him and his guitar. He wrote many of the songs on this latter-day masterpiece, but, working with...
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There are few artists who possess the seemingly unlimited crossover appeal of Johnny Cash. With American Recordings, the country legend somehow introduced himself to a...
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"Folsom Prison Blues" was a dozen years old when Cash performed this live concert at the song's namesake, but the audience gives it such an ovation (cheering, for example,...
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Originally released in two different double-album sets, these two different albums have been packaged together on CD. There's a certain tension inherent in the concept of...
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To put the performance on At San Quentin in a bit of perspective: Johnny Cash's key partner in the Tennessee Two, guitarist Luther Perkins, died in August 1968, just seven...
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Biggest Hits is a bit of misleading title, since only "Boy Named Sue" and "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" were big hits and the remaining ten tracks on the budget-priced...
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Boom Chicka Boom is one of those Johnny Cash records that touches on everything, from the craziness of being backstage at a Willie Nelson gig to a stirring cover of "Family...
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Spend your holidays with the Man in Black -- on Classic Christmas, Johnny Cash lends his one-of-a-kind voice to renditions of "Away in a Manger," "O Little Town of...
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Released in 1987, Columbia Records 1958-1986 is an excellent summary of his two and a half decades at the label, even if it is not perfect. First of all, the title is...
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Sony Music Special Products' Gospel Glory contains a selection of ten gospel tunes Johnny Cash recorded for Columbia Records over the years, including songs he sang with the...
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Released in 1967, Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 chronicles Johnny Cash's first years at CBS/Columbia, presenting 11 of his biggest hits from 1959-1967. Of course, this couldn't...
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This straight reissue of Johnny Cash's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 was originally released in 1971 by Columbia, and contains several favorites including "A Boy Named Sue," "Folsom...
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Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town is one of Cash's criminally overlooked recordings from the 1980s. First, it's his debut for Mercury after almost 30 years with Columbia....
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This contains music with a patriotic theme, including "Ragged Old Flag," "Song of the Patriot, " "Paul Revere, " and more. ~ All Music Guide, All Music...
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Ride This Train was the first explicit Americana concept album that Johnny Cash recorded. As the title implies, the album is about railroads, how they developed, and how...
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Rhino's single-disc compilation The Sun Years contains 18 highlights from Johnny Cash's early years, including nearly every one of his hits for the label (the only ones...
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Cash gets religious, singing about the apocalypse and comparing Jesus to a cowboy at roundup time, and he also revisits some favorite tunes ("Hey Porter," "Wanted Man")....
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This album contains re-recorded versions of such Cash favorites as "Hey Porter," "Angel and the Badman," "Goin' by the Book," "The Greatest Cowboy," and more. ~ All Music...
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The Fabulous Johnny Cash was Cash's first album for Columbia Records and one of his best for the label. Unlike some of his latter-day albums, there wasn't much filler on the...
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Picking up where the previous set left off, The Man In Black: 1959-1962 collects all of the recordings Johnny Cash made for Columbia between '59 and '62; the only music that...
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Assembling a comprehensive multi-disc Johnny Cash collection is a difficult task for a variety of reasons, not the least of it being the sheer number of records Cash put out...
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Cash has said that one of the reasons he signed with Columbia is that the label promised to let him make gospel records. This compilation combines 24 sides from the first...
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Though a good deal of Johnny Cash's gospel work for Columbia has been largely forgotten, The Gospel Collection is a fine representation of his gospel period. All but one of...
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It's hard to discern what the title of Sony Music Special Products' The Many Sides of Johnny Cash means, since most of the songs seem to spring from the same side. Perhaps...
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Sony Music Special Products' The Christmas Spirit features 12 holiday songs Johnny Cash recorded for Columbia Records over the years. Considering that the material on the...
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Recorded in 1972, The Johnny Cash Family Christmas finds Cash leading his family through a number of familiar and obscure Christmas carols, telling stories and anecdotes...
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This budget record is a compilatioin of tracks from various albums and, as a result, is just okay. If you haven't found the original records, this could be a stop gap. But...
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Up Through the Years is the most comprehensive single-disc collection of Johnny Cash's Sun recordings. Featuring a total of 24 songs -- including all the big hits, plus...
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Recorded well after the heyday of the outlaw movement but before singers like Randy Travis and Dwight Yoakam would provide country with some much-needed re-direction, Heroes...
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By 1988, neither Johnny Cash nor his label, Mercury, wanted much to do with each other, and it's easy to see why -- Mercury was simply not supporting Cash, not letting him...
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While stepdaughter Carlene Carter was hanging out with then-husband Nick Lowe and his British roots rock mates Dave Edmunds, Martin Belmont, and Pete Thomas, Johnny Cash...
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Johnny Cash's "The Holy Land" is such a personal recording that it should have stayed in his vaults. Cash mixes many self-penned country/gospel songs with a recorded...
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Though not billed as a hits album, this is a compilation of previously released tracks. Also, some of the tracks are live versions from the prison albums. Still, if you are...
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Two-CD, 40-song set with both sides of all 20 of the singles released by Johnny Cash on Sun through 1964. (Even though Cash left the label in 1958, Sun plundered its vaults...
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At Folsom Prison was one of two legendary live albums Johnny Cash recorded in front of a prison audience in the late '60s. Part of the appeal of the records is the way Cash...
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In 1999, Collectables released Showtime/Original Golden Hits, Vol. 3, which contained two complete albums -- Showtime and Original Golden Hits, Vol. 3 (both originally...
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In 1999, Collectables released The Singing Story Teller/Rough Cut King of Country Music, which contained two complete albums -- The Singing Story Teller (1969, originally...
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In 1999, Collectables released Sunday Down South/Sings Hank Williams, which contained two complete albums -- Sunday Down South (1970, originally released on Sun) and Sings...
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In 1999, Collectables released Sings the Greatest Hits/The Blue Train, which contained two complete albums -- Sings the Greatest Hits and The Blue Train (both originally...
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In 1999, Collectables released Sings I Walk the Line/Sings Folsom Prison Blues, which contained two complete albums -- Sings I Walk the Line and Sings Folsom Prison Blues...
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Although Sam Phillips steered Cash away from gospel and sacred music in the mid-'50s at Sun Records, in fact much of what Cash recorded in his early career still had a...
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America: A 200-Year Salute In Story and Song is the culmination of all of Johnny Cash's Americana albums: An attempt to tell the entire history of America over the course of...
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Not released until 2002, all 26 of these songs -- adding up to a generous 77 minutes -- were recorded at Cash's successful show at Madison Square Garden in New York on...
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One of Cash's earlier pseudo-concept albums, this doesn't exactly follow a specific theme like farming or hymns of the American land the whole way through. Rather, it's a...
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Johnny Cash has called June Carter-Cash one of the most neglected artists in country music, whose contributions will always be overlooked in the shadow of her husband's own...
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Even if the best and most popular of the songs on this 1965 album are the ones most likely to show up on greatest-hits compilations ("The Long Black Veil, "Orange Blossom...
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Water From the Wells of Home has to be one of the more bizarre recordings Johnny Cash ever recorded. Given that it was done in a spirit of hostility between Cash and Mercury...
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During the course of his tenure at Mercury, Johnny Cash agreed to cut a low-budget quickie album for the European market on which he only covered a bunch of his old hits....
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One of the projects Johnny Cash wanted to do when he was on Sun Records was to record an album of songs from the Old West. Of course, Sam Phillips wouldn't hear of it, but...
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This CD two-fer features two of Johnny Cash's best recordings from his Mercury period. Given the quality of both albums, Cash's tenure with the label, generally dismissed by...
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Unearthed is, before anything else, a monolith. It's a whopping five CDs of material, four of which are previously unreleased. The first three are outtakes from the four...
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Originally included as part of the exhaustive Unearthed box set of Johnny Cash's American Records recordings, My Mother's Hymn Book is exactly what it claims to be -- songs...
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Compiled and designed in the manner of Love, Murder, and God, three thematically compiled Johnny Cash anthologies released to wide acclaim in the spring of 2000, Life brings...
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It's a little hard to recover from the over-the-top patriotism of the opening title cut on this mid-'70s release, with its overbearing spoken narrative and shamelessly...
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This Columbia box set of Johnny Cash's two prison albums (At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin) paired with his 1972 album America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song sort...
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One of Cash's earlier pseudo-concept albums, this doesn't exactly follow a specific theme like farming or hymns of the American land the whole way through. Rather, it's a...
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Producer Brian Ahern gives Cash a different sound on this record that sometimes works to good effect. Singles aside, "L&N Don't Stop Here," the duet with George Jones...
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Even if the best and most popular of the songs on this 1965 album are the ones most likely to show up on greatest-hits compilations ("The Long Black Veil, "Orange Blossom...
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Although Sam Phillips steered Cash away from gospel and sacred music in the mid-'50s at Sun Records, in fact much of what Cash recorded in his early career still had a...
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Ride This Train was the first explicit Americana concept album that Johnny Cash recorded. As the title implies, the album is about railroads, how they developed and how they...
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There have been in the neighborhood of ten CD box sets devoted to Johnny Cash, released on Columbia, Bear Family, and Collectables (this does not count overseas releases by...
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The Fabulous Johnny Cash was Cash's first album for Columbia records and one of his best for the label. Unlike some of his latter-day albums, there wasn't much filler on the...
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This Columbia boxed set of Johnny Cash's two prison albums (At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin) paired with his 1972 album, America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song,...
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This album contains re-recorded versions of such Cash favorites as "Hey Porter," "Angel and the Badman," "Goin' by the Book," "The Greatest Cowboy," and more. [Mystery of...
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The 20 All-Time Original Greatest Hits collection contains several of Johnny Cash's biggest hits on Sun Records from the '50s, including "I Walk the Line," "Folsom Prison...
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Usually, when an artist of stature passes, the record company (or companies, and sometimes even family, look at the sad posthumous legacy of Townes Van Zandt for example)...
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American V: A Hundred Highways is the long-awaited album of Johnny Cash's final recordings, the basic tracks for which (i.e., Cash's vocals) were recorded in 2002-2003, with...
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Metro's double-disc collection, Lonesome in Black, contains 40 of Johnny Cash's biggest hits on Sun Records from 1955 to 1958. All of the original Sun classics are here,...
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To put the performance on At San Quentin in a bit of perspective: Johnny Cash's key partner in the Tennessee Two, guitarist Luther Perkins, died in August 1968, just seven...
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The Man in Black used to record for Sun Records before he had really broken into the Nashville scene. Sounding more like rock music than country, Cash recorded these 25...
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