30 Essential Hits

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Ring of Fire
  2:39
• 2
  Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  2:12
  4.5 ★
• 3
  I Walk the Line
  2:46
  4.2 ★
• 4
  The Ways of a Woman in Love
  2:17
• 5
  Don't Take Your Guns to Town
  3:05
• 6
  The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  4:10
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:48
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Big River
  2:33
  3.2 ★
• 9
  A Boy Named Sue (live)
  3:46
  4.4 ★
• 10
  Tennessee Flat Top Box
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 11
  It Ain't Me Babe
  3:04
  4.5 ★
• 12
  Orange Blossom Special
  3:08
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Man in Black
  2:54
  3.5 ★
• 14
  If I Were a Carpenter
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 15
  There You Go
  2:17
• CD 2
• 1
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:52
• 2
  Daddy Sang Bass
  2:22
• 3
  Sunday Morning Coming Down
  4:11
• 4
  Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
  3:55
• 5
  The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
  1:53
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Understand Your Man
  2:45
• 7
  Flesh and Blood
  2:38
• 8
  Highwayman
  3:05
• 9
  Ghost Riders in the Sky
  3:48
  4.2 ★
• 10
  One Piece at a Time
  4:04
• 11
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:38
• 12
  There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
  3:19
• 13
  (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley
  2:51
• 14
  Jackson
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Folsom Prison Blues (live)
  2:43
  4.9 ★

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Release credits

• Alisa Jones
  hammered dulcimer [9]
• Asa Wilkerson
  background vocals [2]
• Bill Abbott
  background vocals [2]
• Bill Pursell
  piano [13]
• Bob Breault
  engineer [9]
• Bob Irwin
  additional [15]
• Bob Johnson
  banjo [9], guitar [6], mandocello [9]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [2.15, 1.9, 1.14]
• Bob Lewin
  French horn [9], trumpet [9]
• Bob Wootton
  electric guitar [1.13, 2.9], guitar [9]
• Boots Randolph
  saxophone [12]
• Brian Ahern
  producer [9]
• Carl Perkins
  electric guitar [15], guitar [9]
• Charlie McCoy
  harmonica [12]
• Cyd Mosteller
  background vocals [2]
• Don Carter
  background vocals [2]
• Don Law
  producer [1.6-7, 1.10-12, 2.5, 2.13-14]
• Earl Poole Ball
  piano [9]
• Frank Jones
  producer [1.6, 1.10-12, 2.13-14]
• Jack Clement
  guitar [2.9, 1.8], producer [2, 8]
• Jack Hale
  French horn [9], trumpet [9]
• Jack Routh
  guitar [9]
• Jan Howard
  vocal [9]
• Jerry Hensley
  guitar [9]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [1.2-3, 1.8, 1.13, 2.13], guitar [2.9, 2.15, 1.6-7, 1.9, 1.12], instrument [14], lead vocals [2-3, 6-7, 9, 12], producer [13], vocal [2.5, 2.9, 2.13-15, 1.8, 1.13]
• June Carter Cash
  additional [14], performer [1.11, 1.14, 2.14], vocal [14]
• Lee Holt
  background vocals [2]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [2.13, 2.15, 1.2-3, 1.6-8, 1.12]
• Mark Morris
  percussion [9]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [1.6-9, 1.12-13, 2.13, 2.15], double bass [2-3], electric bass guitar [9]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [13]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [9]
• Nita Smith
  background vocals [2]
• Norman Blake
  guitar [6], resonator guitar [6]
• Ray Edenton
  guitar [12]
• Ricky Skaggs
  fiddle [9]
• Rufus Long
  flute [6]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [3]
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [13], performer [12], vocal [2.9, 1.6]
• The Tennessee Two
  performer [8]
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [2.9, 2.13, 2.15, 1.6, 1.9, 1.12-13]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [9]
• Show all credits (42)

Issues

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  3
  (Combined release view)
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  3
  30 Essential Hits

  2x CD
  2001