All rights reserved.| Track Listing 1. Hey Porter 2. Cry! Cry! Cry! 3. So Doggone Lonesome 4. Folsom Prison Blues 5. I Walk the Line 6. Get Rhythm 7. There You Go 8. Train of Love 9. Next in Line 10. Home of the Blues 11. Ballad of a Teenage Queen 12. Big River 13. Guess Things Happen That Way 14. Come in Stranger 15. Ways of a Woman in Love, The 16. Rock Island Line 17. Two Timin' Woman 18. Wreck of the Old '97, The 19. You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven 20. Straight A's in Love 21. Don't Take Your Guns to Town 22. Frankie's Man, Johnnie 23. I Got Stripes 24. Five Feet High and Rising 25. Ring of Fire 26. Understand Your Man 27. Ballad of Ira Hayes, The 28. What Is Truth? 29. Sunday Morning Comin' Down 30. If I Were a Carpenter 31. Flesh and Blood 32. Man in Black 33. Thing Called Love, A 34. One Piece at a Time 35. Orange Blossom Special 36. Jackson 37. Daddy Sang Bass 38. Boy Named Sue, A 39. Wanted Man 40. Blistered
Album Notes 1994 two-disc selection comprises 40 songs recorded for the Columbia and Sun labels between 1963 and 1969. Among the highlights are "A Boy Named Sue," "Rock Island Line," "Ring of Fire," "I Walk the Line," and "Folsom Prison Blues." The album comes in a double slimline jewelcase. German completists Bear Family have done the world a great service by painstakingly anthologizing the early work of Johnny Cash in their MAN IN BLACK box sets. The first two volumes collect Cash's earliest work, including his stellar rockabilly-influenced Sun recordings. This third installment in the series is no less essential, though, as it represents some of Cash's most progressive work. Most of the material included here was recorded during a time when Cash's iconoclast/outlaw ethic fell in rather serendipitously with the contemporaneous underground/countercultural movement. Ever the champion of the underdog and the downtrodden, Cash recorded his two legendary "prison" albums in '68 and '69, AT FOLSOM PRISON and AT SAN QUENTIN, which are included here in all their gritty, near-riot-instigating glory. In the late-'60s, Cash also began championing the work of contemporary folk-rock singer songwriters like Tim Hardin, and Cash's version of Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter" is a memorable one. The overall impression on this set is one of an artist who refused to stand still, determined to pursue his muse wherever it led him. | See an error? Submit a change request | ||||||||||
