With His Hot And Blue Guitar
by Johnny Cash

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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.
(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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With His Hot And Blue Guitar track list
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
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 35/100 | 13 | |
| 2026 | Top 7 Music Albums of the 1950s | 2/7 | 17 | |
| 2026 | Top 29 Music Albums of the 1950s | 1/29 | 20 | |
| 2026 | Top 20 Music Albums of 1957 | 10/20 | 3 | |
| 2026 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 25/100 | 15 | |
| 2026 | Top 32 Music Albums of 1957 | 4/32 | 5 | |
| 2026 | matterhornrider | Top 55 Music Albums of the 1950s | 27/55 | 11 |
| 2026 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 29/100 | 14 | |
| 2026 | Rivera | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1950s | 16/100 | 17 |
| 2026 | Siromynian | Top 11 Music Albums of 1957 | 7/11 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 236 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,682 | |||
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With His Hot And Blue Guitar ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/10/2026 16:17 | Jakor | 5,525 | 70/100 |
| ! | 05/01/2026 16:59 | 3,895 | 81/100 | |
| ! | 03/07/2026 18:18 | zsolti | 702 | 81/100 |
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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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Definitely sounds young here, but it's still unmistakably Johnny Cash.
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.
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.
A classic country premier, not innovative but very well done.
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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