Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West

Tracklist

• 1
  Hiawatha’s Vision
  2:24
• 2
  The Road to Kaintuck
  2:43
• 3
  The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Pt. I
  2:52
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Narration 1
  1:14
• 5
  The Ballad of Boot Hill
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 6
  I Ride an Old Paint
  2:56
• 7
  Narration 2
  0:31
• 8
  Hardin Wouldn’t Run
  3:47
• 9
  Narration 3
  0:50
• 10
  Mister Garfield
  3:45
• 11
  The Streets of Laredo
  3:39
• 12
  Narration 4
  0:24
• 13
  Johnny Reb
  2:26
• 14
  A Letter From Home
  2:33
• 15
  Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
  2:26
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Mean as Hell
  3:07
• 17
  Sam Hall
  3:15
• 18
  25 Minutes to Go
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 19
  The Blizzard
  3:51
• 20
  Narration 5
  0:39
• 21
  Sweet Betsy From Pike
  3:16
• 22
  Green Grow the Lilacs
  2:45
• 23
  Narration 6
  1:00
• 24
  Stampede
  2:59
• 25
  The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Pt. II
  2:29
• 26
  Reflections
  2:45

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Release credits

• Anita Kerr Singers
  vocal [5]
• Bill Pursell
  harpsichord [19], piano [25]
• Bob Johnson
  12 string guitar [19, 21], banjo [6], five-string banjo [2, 14, 21, 26], guitar [3, 10-11, 17, 21, 24-25], lute [1, 13], mandocello [15, 18], mandolute [5]
• Charlie McCoy
  harmonica [1, 13, 21, 26]
• Don Law
  producer [1-3, 5-6, 8, 10-11, 13-19, 21-22, 24-26]
• Frank Jones
  producer [1-3, 5-6, 8, 10-11, 13-19, 21-22, 24-26]
• Jack Clement
  guitar [25]
• James Carter Williams
  piano [5]
• Johnny Cash
  guitar [2-3, 5-6, 8, 10-11, 13-15, 17-19, 21-22, 24-25], spoken vocals [1, 26], vocal [2-3, 5-6, 8, 10-11, 13-15, 17-19, 21-22, 24-25]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [2-3, 5-6, 8, 10-11, 13-15, 17-19, 21-22, 24-25]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [2-3, 5-6, 8, 10-11, 13-15, 17-19, 21-22, 24-25]
• Michael Kazak
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [1, 22, 24]
• Norman Blake
  resonator guitar [25]
• The Carter Family
  vocal [2-3, 6, 10-11, 13, 15, 19, 24]
• The Statler Brothers
  vocal [2-3, 10-11, 13-15, 18-19, 24]
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [2-3, 6, 8, 10-11, 13-15, 17-19, 21-22, 24-25]
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Issues

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  Sings the Ballads of the True West

  Unknown format
  1965
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  Mean as Hell!

  Unknown format
  1965
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  J
  Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West

  Vinyl
  1965
• 

  J
  Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West, Volume I

  12" Vinyl
  1972
• S
  Sings the Ballads of the True West

  CD (remastered)
  22 February 2000
• J
  Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West

  CD
  27 August 2002
• 

  J
  Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West

  CD (Remastered)
  9 September 2002
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  S
  Sings the Ballads of the True West

  CD
  2002
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  Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West

  Digital Media