Ride This Train
by Johnny Cash

Ride This Train by Johnny Cash
Year: 1960
Overall rank: 8,310th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
64/100 (from 53 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1960 (29th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (569th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,310th)

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Johnny Cash bestography

Ride This Train is ranked 10th best out of 127 albums by Johnny Cash on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Johnny Cash is At Folsom Prison which is ranked number 370 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,688.

Johnny Cash album bestography « Higher ranked (7,225th)
I Walk The Line
This album (8,310th)
Ride This Train
Lower ranked (8,986th) »
American VI: Ain't No Grave

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Ride This Train rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 8,310th | 1960s rank: 569th | 1960 rank: 29th

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Ride This Train ratings

Average Rating: 
64/100 (from 53 votes)
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60/100
 
12/21/2025 06:56 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  9,58570/100
 
50/100
 
12/08/2025 12:47 Devilwoac  Ratings distribution  1,20797/100
 
75/100
 
09/22/2025 15:07 Tamthebam  Ratings distribution  23,00169/100
 
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01/29/2024 14:33 replacementlevel  Ratings distribution  7,73370/100
 
60/100
 
01/10/2024 19:35 Deanobaggio42  Ratings distribution  2070/100

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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 63.7/100, a mean average of 60.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 62.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.3.

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From 08/13/2021 19:12 | #272499
Too much d@mn talking! I'd rate this album a full 5 pts higher without all of the incessant, boring storytelling.
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From 06/25/2017 18:12 | #193198
The songs are good, but the talking intro's are just too much.
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From 02/05/2015 12:35 | #134037
Interesting idea, but there is no "lightning spark"...
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