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1957 – SUN
Produced By SAM PHILLIPS
1. The Rock Island Line
2. I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
3. Country Boy
4. If The Good Lord’s Willing
5. Cry! Cry! Cry!
6. Remember Me
7. So Doggone Lonesome
8. I Was There When It Happened
9. I Walk The Line
10. The Wreck Of The Old ‘97
11. Folsom Prison Blues
12. Doin’ My Time
It’s a debut album by a man who had little experience, who had just started seriously writing songs, who was given a band of just two people to record with and who didn’t have a drummer of any kind. It’s barely 27 minutes long…and it’s a stunning and strong beginning of a career that would span six decades and nearly 100 albums. Four of the songs were released earlier…”Cry! Cry! Cry!”, “Folsom Prison Blues”, “So Doggone Lonesome” and “I Walk The Line” were released as singles between 1955 and 1956…all Cash originals, which was pretty rare in that time if your name was not Chuck Berry. Cash wrote five of the songs on this album, with the rest filled out by some great cover choices…songs by Hank Williams (“I Heard That Lonesome Whistle”), Jerry Reed (“If The Good Lord’s Willin’”), and the former Governor of Louisiana, Jimmie Davis (“I Was There When It Happened”).
There is not a single misstep here. Cash and The Tennessee Two (Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant) make this sound like a full band. They keep things upbeat, even without the benefit of drums (on “Folsom Prison Blues”, Cash improvised by putting a piece of paper between his strings and fretboard to get a snare sound), and without any studio tricks. Even more than on the early Sun efforts by Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, you can feel just how intimate and close these sessions were. It’s all raw, it’s all live, and it’s the beginning of a career that would turn out to be as legendary as they come. Many of these songs are still heard today, more than sixty years later, and for good reason. This was maybe the birth of folk rock, country rock, southern rock…and the birth of the Man In Black and a huge reason why Sam Phillips and his early Sun stable was so important to almost all of the music that came after it. This is an absolute classic. You should definitely have this one. [First added to this chart: 12/20/2024]
Produced By SAM PHILLIPS
1. The Rock Island Line
2. I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
3. Country Boy
4. If The Good Lord’s Willing
5. Cry! Cry! Cry!
6. Remember Me
7. So Doggone Lonesome
8. I Was There When It Happened
9. I Walk The Line
10. The Wreck Of The Old ‘97
11. Folsom Prison Blues
12. Doin’ My Time
It’s a debut album by a man who had little experience, who had just started seriously writing songs, who was given a band of just two people to record with and who didn’t have a drummer of any kind. It’s barely 27 minutes long…and it’s a stunning and strong beginning of a career that would span six decades and nearly 100 albums. Four of the songs were released earlier…”Cry! Cry! Cry!”, “Folsom Prison Blues”, “So Doggone Lonesome” and “I Walk The Line” were released as singles between 1955 and 1956…all Cash originals, which was pretty rare in that time if your name was not Chuck Berry. Cash wrote five of the songs on this album, with the rest filled out by some great cover choices…songs by Hank Williams (“I Heard That Lonesome Whistle”), Jerry Reed (“If The Good Lord’s Willin’”), and the former Governor of Louisiana, Jimmie Davis (“I Was There When It Happened”).
There is not a single misstep here. Cash and The Tennessee Two (Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant) make this sound like a full band. They keep things upbeat, even without the benefit of drums (on “Folsom Prison Blues”, Cash improvised by putting a piece of paper between his strings and fretboard to get a snare sound), and without any studio tricks. Even more than on the early Sun efforts by Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, you can feel just how intimate and close these sessions were. It’s all raw, it’s all live, and it’s the beginning of a career that would turn out to be as legendary as they come. Many of these songs are still heard today, more than sixty years later, and for good reason. This was maybe the birth of folk rock, country rock, southern rock…and the birth of the Man In Black and a huge reason why Sam Phillips and his early Sun stable was so important to almost all of the music that came after it. This is an absolute classic. You should definitely have this one. [First added to this chart: 12/20/2024]
Year of Release:
1957
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1,600
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1969-COLUMBIA
Produced By BOB JOHNSTON
1. Big River
2. I Still Miss Someone
3. Wreck Of The Old 97
4. I Walk The Line
5. Darlin' Companion
6. I Don't Know Where I'm Bound
7. Starkville City Jail
8. San Quentin
9. San Quentin
10. Wanted Man
11. A Boy Named Sue
12. (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley
13. Folsom Prison Blues
14. Ring Of Fire
15. He Turned The Water Into Wine
16. Daddy Sang Bass
17. The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago
18. Closing Medley: Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk The Line/Ring Of Fire/The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
On the heels of the wildly successful Folsom Prison album, Johnny Cash went back inside...this time to San Quentin. And while the album is not as tight musically as its predecessor, it still rates high in the Cash discography. This time around, he's much more at ease with his prison audience, his band, and the whole proceedings. The songs are often rushed at maniacal speeds, sacrificing some quality, but otherwise, an excellent set.
The highlight here is the hit version of "A Boy Named Sue". Also, he is joined onstage by his wife June, The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, and the great Carl Perkins. His version of Dylan's "Wanted Man" is fine, and the song "San Quentin", played here for the first time, is not quite "Folsom Prison Blues", but it's pretty close. If you're a fan of the Folsom album, you'll love this. [First added to this chart: 02/22/2019]
Produced By BOB JOHNSTON
1. Big River
2. I Still Miss Someone
3. Wreck Of The Old 97
4. I Walk The Line
5. Darlin' Companion
6. I Don't Know Where I'm Bound
7. Starkville City Jail
8. San Quentin
9. San Quentin
10. Wanted Man
11. A Boy Named Sue
12. (There'll Be) Peace In The Valley
13. Folsom Prison Blues
14. Ring Of Fire
15. He Turned The Water Into Wine
16. Daddy Sang Bass
17. The Old Account Was Settled Long Ago
18. Closing Medley: Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk The Line/Ring Of Fire/The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
On the heels of the wildly successful Folsom Prison album, Johnny Cash went back inside...this time to San Quentin. And while the album is not as tight musically as its predecessor, it still rates high in the Cash discography. This time around, he's much more at ease with his prison audience, his band, and the whole proceedings. The songs are often rushed at maniacal speeds, sacrificing some quality, but otherwise, an excellent set.
The highlight here is the hit version of "A Boy Named Sue". Also, he is joined onstage by his wife June, The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers, and the great Carl Perkins. His version of Dylan's "Wanted Man" is fine, and the song "San Quentin", played here for the first time, is not quite "Folsom Prison Blues", but it's pretty close. If you're a fan of the Folsom album, you'll love this. [First added to this chart: 02/22/2019]
Year of Release:
1969
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1,011
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2002 – AMERICAN
Produced By RICK RUBIN & JOHN CARTER CASH
1. The Man Comes Around
2. Hurt
3. Give My Love To Rose
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. I Hung My Head
6. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
7. Personal Jesus
8. In My Life
9. Sam Hall
10. Danny Boy
11. Desperado
12. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
13. Tear Stained Letter
14. Streets Of Laredo
15. We’ll Meet Again
American IV is Johnny Cash’s 87th album, and the last before his death in 2003. It’s also the fourth in the American series, produced by Rick Rubin and which brought Cash back to the forefront of music at the end of his life. Due in large part to a cover of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt”, and the powerful video that went with it, the album became Cash’s biggest seller in decades, and won a slew of awards…talk about going out with a band. That was Johnny Cash…stranger than fiction, bigger than life. But American IV is about so much more than “Hurt”…it’s a 70 year old man being relevant in a young man’s game. It’s the perfect blend of an old soul with much younger music. It’s an album of farewells, and of dealings with death and the devil himself. American IV is the strongest of the series, the most powerful, and more than anything else, it’s Johnny Cash strapping on that black guitar over his black clothes and giving it one last go before leaving us for good.
The album is loaded with surprising covers. “Hurt”, of course. But also the Depeche Mode hit “Personal Jesus”. The Eagles “Desperado”. The Beatles “In My Life”. Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (a strange duet with Fiona Apple). He even covers Sting. And, fittingly, Cash’s special take on the saddest song ever written, the Hank Williams classic “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”. But even deeper is the Cash original “When The Man Comes Around”, a brilliant track lost in the hype of “Hurt”. It’s everything that was ever great about the man in one fine song. He also revisits his own past recordings with new takes on “Give My Love To Rose”, “Tear Stained Letter”, and “Sam Hall”. American IV is perfect with all of its flaws, and is ultimately the best way for a man to write his own epitaph. Warts and all, Johnny Cash really did have one more great album in him, and he was able to make it before he died in 2003, just a few months after his wife June. God bless Johnny Cash. Always. [First added to this chart: 03/23/2015]
Produced By RICK RUBIN & JOHN CARTER CASH
1. The Man Comes Around
2. Hurt
3. Give My Love To Rose
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water
5. I Hung My Head
6. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
7. Personal Jesus
8. In My Life
9. Sam Hall
10. Danny Boy
11. Desperado
12. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
13. Tear Stained Letter
14. Streets Of Laredo
15. We’ll Meet Again
American IV is Johnny Cash’s 87th album, and the last before his death in 2003. It’s also the fourth in the American series, produced by Rick Rubin and which brought Cash back to the forefront of music at the end of his life. Due in large part to a cover of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt”, and the powerful video that went with it, the album became Cash’s biggest seller in decades, and won a slew of awards…talk about going out with a band. That was Johnny Cash…stranger than fiction, bigger than life. But American IV is about so much more than “Hurt”…it’s a 70 year old man being relevant in a young man’s game. It’s the perfect blend of an old soul with much younger music. It’s an album of farewells, and of dealings with death and the devil himself. American IV is the strongest of the series, the most powerful, and more than anything else, it’s Johnny Cash strapping on that black guitar over his black clothes and giving it one last go before leaving us for good.
The album is loaded with surprising covers. “Hurt”, of course. But also the Depeche Mode hit “Personal Jesus”. The Eagles “Desperado”. The Beatles “In My Life”. Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” (a strange duet with Fiona Apple). He even covers Sting. And, fittingly, Cash’s special take on the saddest song ever written, the Hank Williams classic “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”. But even deeper is the Cash original “When The Man Comes Around”, a brilliant track lost in the hype of “Hurt”. It’s everything that was ever great about the man in one fine song. He also revisits his own past recordings with new takes on “Give My Love To Rose”, “Tear Stained Letter”, and “Sam Hall”. American IV is perfect with all of its flaws, and is ultimately the best way for a man to write his own epitaph. Warts and all, Johnny Cash really did have one more great album in him, and he was able to make it before he died in 2003, just a few months after his wife June. God bless Johnny Cash. Always. [First added to this chart: 03/23/2015]
Year of Release:
2002
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2,544
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I thought you had forgotten R.E.M. but here they are. Master of Puppets are ranked very low but why not ;)
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