With His Hot And Blue Guitar
by Johnny Cash

With His Hot And Blue Guitar by Johnny Cash
Year: 1957
Overall rank: 1,038th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 232 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1957 (7th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 1950s (26th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,038th)

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Johnny Cash bestography

With His Hot And Blue Guitar is ranked 3rd 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 321 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 5,147.

Johnny Cash album bestography « Higher ranked (699th)
American IV: The Man Comes Around
This album (1,038th)
With His Hot And Blue Guitar
Lower ranked (1,685th) »
American Recordings

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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With His Hot And Blue Guitar rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,038th | 1950s rank: 26th | 1957 rank: 7th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
77/100 (from 232 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.2/100, a mean average of 76.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.


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From 11/11/2021 17:12 | #276166
Definitely sounds young here, but it's still unmistakably Johnny Cash.
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From 04/25/2021 20:34 | #268973
You can listen to Old Man Cash singing Nine Inch Nails all you want, but he was never as crackling as he was with the Sun studio backing musicians. Supposedly this was the first 12" Sun Records ever released. It must have been revolutionary in its time.

By far, his best and most dynamic studio album.
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75/100
The Man in Black on his debut, such a good solid album with two absolute classics.

Best tracks: I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Cry Cry Cry, The Wreck of Old '97, So Doggone Lonesome.

I have this as the Best Country Album of 1957.
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From 04/05/2018 16:05 | #212347
A classic country premier, not innovative but very well done.
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From 02/21/2018 15:34 | #209078
A boom-chicka-boom masterpiece, I love this debut album by Johnny Cash, his singing tells a story, and for me this is the best album that I heard from the 50s.
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