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Summary:

The records that established Johnny Cash as one of the greatest American singer songwriters are his first for Sun and Columbia Records, the best part of which is included here. From Southern gospel and country music, all the way through to blues and rockabilly, he was the first rock giant to draw mainly from the European-American tradition - unlike his contemporaries and friends Elvis Presley or Jerry Lee Lewis who drew mainly from the African-American repertoire. Bruno Blum comments on the course of this prolific, born storyteller, a musical incarnation of the Wild West myth.

Table of Contents:

• Disc 1. You're my baby (1:31)
• Hey porter (2:13)
• Cry, cry, cry (2:28)
• Port of lonely hearts (2:37)
• Folsom Prison blues (2:49)
• So doggone lonesome (2:36)
• Luher played the boogie (2:03)
• I walk the line (2:44)
• Get rhythm (2:44)
• Train of love (2:22)
• There you go (2:17)
• Don't make me go (2:28)
• Next in line (2:44)
• Home of the blues (2:39)
• Give my love to Rose (2:44)
• Rock Island line (2:09)
• The wreck of the old '97 (1:47)
• Doin' my time (2:35)
• Country boy (1:51)
• If the good Lord's willing (1:42)

• I was there when it happened (2:14)
• Remember me (I'm the one that loves you) (1:58)
• Big river (2:32)
• Ballad of a teenage queen (2:11)
• Disc 2. Guess things happen that way (1:49)
• Come in stranger (1:41)
• Katy too (1:56)
• Thanks a lot (2:36)
• It's just about time (2:09)
• I just thought you'd like to know (2:23)
• I forgot to remember to forget (1:53)
• Suppertime (2:46)
• It was Jesus (Who was it?) (2:05)
• The troubadour (2:16)
• That's all over (1:52)
• Frankie's man, Johnny (2:17)
• One more ride (1:59)
• Pickin' time (1:58)
• Don't take your guns to town (3:01)
• I'd rather die young (2:29)
• Shepherd of my heart (2:11)
• Snow in his hair (2:20)
• Swing low, sweet chariot (1:52)
• I call him (1:46)
• The old account (2:24)
• He'll be a friend (1:57)
• It could be you (instead of him) (1:50)
• You dreamer you (1:50)
• Disc 3. I got stripes (2:04)
• Five feet high and rising (1:46)
• Hank and Joe and me (2:12)
• The caretaker (2:05)
• Clementine (2:29)
• I want to go home (1:57)
• Don't step on Mother's roses (2:33)
• Going to Memphis (4:21)
• When Papa played the dobro (2:54)
• Boss Jack (3:55)
• Loading coal (4:57)
• Smiling Bill McCall (2:06)
• My shoes keep walking back to you (2:22)
• I will miss you when you go (1:59)
• I feel better all over (2:03)
• Why do you punish me? (2:17)
• Just one more (2:12)
• Honky tonk girl (1:58)
• I'm so lonesome I could cry (2:38)
• Time changes everything (1:48)
• I'd just be fool enough (to fall) (2:04)
• Transfusion blues (2:31)
• God must have my fortune laid away (2:48)
• I got shoes (2:00).

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Contributors:

Cash, Johnny , singer, instrumentalist, composer

Languages:

English
French

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Accompanying materials: French, English

Subjects:

Country music

Rockabilly music

Country rock music

United States

Genres:

Country music

Rockabilly music

Country rock music

Performers:

Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar ; with various accompanying musicians.

Performance Medium:

Male voice

General Notes:

Some songs written by Johnny Cash.
Recorded 1954-1961.
Program and biographical notes in French and English, and full credits (19 pages) inserted in container.
Title from disc label.

Physical Description:

3 audio discs ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 160,889- 160,891

Other Standard Numbers:

International Article Number: 3561302579429
Publisher Number, Frémeaux & Associés: FA 5794
Publisher Number, Frémeaux & Associés: 5794

OCLC Numbers:

1259551641