Ride This Train
by Johnny Cash

Ride This Train by Johnny Cash
Year: 1960
Release date: 1960-08-01
Overall rank: 8,342nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
64/100 (from 54 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1960 (27th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (611th)
Award Best albums of all time (8,342nd)

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Johnny Cash bestography

Ride This Train is ranked 14th 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 319 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,153.

Johnny Cash album bestography « Higher ranked (7,478th)
Songs Of Our Soil
This album (8,342nd)
Ride This Train
Lower ranked (9,211th) »
Orange Blossom Special

(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 summary
Overall rank: 8,342nd | 1960s rank: 611th | 1960 rank: 27th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
64/100 (from 54 votes)
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08/10/2026 19:06 Jakor  Ratings distribution  5,55070/100
 
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 63.5/100, a mean average of 60.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 61.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 18.2.


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From kokkinos 04/27/2021 22:02 in I'm going back to the start
“Oh, the album covers of 60s dollarbins. Oh yeah, that's what I'm talking about! Glad you gave the Roach record a spin. Many more than one actually, great stuff. Moving on: The basic prerequisite in order to like a concept album is to like the concept itself – thank you for sharing words of wisdom…”
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75/100
The songs are good, but the talking intro's are just too much.
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50/100
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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Interesting idea, but there is no "lightning spark"...
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