Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Hey Porter
  2:13
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Cry! Cry! Cry!
  2:23
  3.6 ★
• 3
  So Doggone Lonesome
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 4
  I Walk the Line
  2:43
  4.2 ★
• 5
  Get Rhythm
  2:13
  4.0 ★
• 6
  There You Go
  2:17
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  2:11
  4.5 ★
• 8
  Big River
  2:31
  3.2 ★
• 9
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:49
  3.8 ★
• 10
  All Over Again
  2:12
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Don't Take Your Guns to Town
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:46
  3.6 ★
• 13
  The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
  1:52
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Forty Shades of Green
  2:54
• 15
  Tennessee Flat-Top Box
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 16
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Ring of Fire
  2:35
  4.2 ★
• 18
  Understand Your Man
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 19
  The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  4:07
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)

  Johnny Cash & The Carter Family
  3:51
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  It Ain't Me, Babe

  Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
  3:02
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Orange Blossom Special

  Johnny Cash, Charlie McCoy, Boots Randolph & The Carter Family
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 3
  The One on the Right Is the One on the Left
  2:47
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Jackson

  Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Folsom Prison Blues (live)
  2:44
  4.9 ★
• 6
  Daddy Sang Bass
  2:20
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Girl From the North Country

  Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
  3:41
  3.9 ★
• 8
  A Boy Named Sue (live)
  3:46
  4.4 ★
• 9
  If I Were a Carpenter
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Sunday Morning Coming Down
  4:10
  2.8 ★
• 11
  Flesh and Blood
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Man in Black
  2:52
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Ragged Old Flag
  3:08
  3.0 ★
• 14
  One Piece at a Time
  4:00
  4.0 ★
• 15
  (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  3:42
  4.2 ★
• 16
  Song of the Patriot

  Johnny Cash & Marty Robbins
  2:02
• 17
  Highwayman

  Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings & Kris Kristofferson
  3:02
  4.5 ★
• 18
  The Night Hank Williams Came to Town

  Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings
  3:22
  5.0 ★
• 19
  The Wanderer

  U2 & Johnny Cash
  4:38
  2.8 ★
• 20
  Man in White
  5:30

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Release credits

• Alisa Jones
  hammered dulcimer [15]
• Anita Carter
  background vocals [1.18, 2.11]
• Asa Wilkerson
  background vocals [7]
• Bill Abbott
  background vocals [7]
• Bill Busby
  background vocals [9]
• Bill McElhiney
  trumpet [17-18]
• Bill Pursell
  piano [17-18, 20]
• Billy Bob Thornton
  liner notes
• Bob Breault
  engineer [8]
• Bob Dylan
  guitar [7], vocal [7]
• Bob Irwin
  additional [5]
• Bob Johnson
  banjo [15], five-string banjo [20], guitar [19], mandocello [15]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [5-11]
• Bob Lewin
  French horn [15], trumpet [15]
• Bob Wootton
  electric guitar [11-12, 15], guitar [8]
• Bobby Emmons
  keyboard [17]
• Bobby Thompson
  guitar [13]
• Bobby Wood
  keyboard [17]
• Bono
  liner notes
• Boots Randolph
  saxophone [2]
• Brian Ahern
  producer [15]
• Brian Eno
  additional [19], producer [19], synthesizer [19]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [10-11, 16]
• Carl Perkins
  electric guitar [5-6], guitar [8]
• Charles Cochran
  piano [13]
• Charlie Bragg
  engineer [14], producer [13-14]
• Charlie McCoy
  harmonica [2, 13]
• Charlie Williams
  spoken vocals [18]
• Chips Moman
  background vocals [17], engineer [17], guitar [17], producer [17]
• Chrissie Hynde
  liner notes
• Chuck Bragg
  engineer [14]
• Corey Taylor
  liner notes
• Cyd Mosteller
  background vocals [7]
• Danny Jones
  engineer [14]
• Dave LaBonte
  background vocals [9]
• Dave Matthews
  liner notes
• David Cherry
  engineer [17]
• David Ferguson
  assistant [18]
• Don Carter
  background vocals [7]
• Don Davis
  producer [14]
• Don Law
  phonographic copyright [18], producer [1.10-13, 1.15-20, 2.1-4]
• Earl Poole Ball
  piano [15]
• Earl Scruggs
  banjo [13]
• Elvis Costello
  liner notes
• Flood
  electronic instruments [19], producer [19]
• Frank Jones
  phonographic copyright [18], producer [2.1-4, 1.15, 1.17-20]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [17]
• George Evans
  background vocals [9]
• George Jones
  liner notes
• Helen Carter
  background vocals [1.18, 2.11]
• Henry Rollins
  liner notes
• Jack Clement
  guitar [1.8, 1.17-18, 2.15], producer [2.18, 1.7-9]
• Jack Hale
  French horn [15], trumpet [15]
• Jack Routh
  guitar [15]
• Jan Howard
  background vocals [6], vocal [15]
• Jerry Hensley
  guitar [15]
• Jimmy Tittle
  bass [17]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [9]
• Joe Allen
  bass [13]
• John Mellencamp
  liner notes
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [2.6, 2.12-13, 1.1-9, 1.11, 1.16, 1.18, 1.20], background vocals [17], guest [7, 19], guitar [2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.15, 1.10, 1.12, 1.17, 1.19], instrument [4], lead vocals [2.2, 2.8, 2.19, 1.1-7, 1.9, 1.12, 1.17-19], performer [17], phonographic copyright [20], producer [12-13], spoken vocals [13], vocal [2.4-6, 2.11-12, 2.15, 2.17, 1.8, 1.10-11, 1.13, 1.16, 1.20]
• Johnny Rodriguez
  background vocals [17], guitar [17]
• June Carter Cash
  liner notes, additional [9], background vocals [18], performer [1, 4, 9], vocal [4]
• Karl Garvin
  trumpet [18]
• Keith Richards
  liner notes
• Ken Criblez
  assistant [17]
• Kenny Malone
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Kirk Hammett
  liner notes
• Kris Kristofferson
  liner notes, background vocals [17], guitar [17], performer [17], vocal [17]
• Larry Greenhill
  assistant [17]
• Lee Holt
  background vocals [7]
• Leonard Cohen
  liner notes
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [1.1-12, 1.16-20, 2.2, 2.5-6]
• Mark Morris
  percussion [15]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [1.8, 1.10-12, 1.16-20, 2.2, 2.5-6, 2.8, 2.12], bass guitar [11], double bass [1-7, 9], electric bass guitar [15]
• Marty Stuart
  mandolin [17]
• Matthew McDonough
  liner notes
• Merle Haggard
  liner notes
• Mickey Raphael
  harmonica [17]
• Mike Leech
  bass [17]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [20], background vocals [1.18, 2.11]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [8]
• Nick Cave
  liner notes
• Nick Lowe
  liner notes
• Nita Smith
  background vocals [7]
• Norman Blake
  guitar [19], resonator guitar [18-19]
• Paul Davis
  background vocals [17], guitar [17], keyboard [17]
• Paul McCartney
  liner notes
• Raul Malo
  liner notes
• Ray Davies
  liner notes
• Ray Edenton
  guitar [2]
• Ricky Skaggs
  fiddle [15]
• Rodney Crowell
  liner notes
• Roger Tucker
  engineer [14]
• Rosanne Cash
  liner notes
• Rufus Long
  flute [19]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [1-6]
• Sam Shepard
  liner notes
• Sara Carter
  background vocals [11]
• Shawn Crahan
  liner notes
• Shelby Lynne
  liner notes
• Steve Earle
  liner notes
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [1.18, 1.20, 2.6, 2.11], performer [1.17, 1.20, 2.2], vocal [1.17, 1.19, 2.15]
• The Edge
  liner notes, background vocals [19], producer [19], synthesizer [19]
• The Oak Ridge Boys
  background vocals [13]
• The Statler Brothers
  background vocals [6]
• The Tennessee Three
  performer [11]
• The Tennessee Two
  performer [8]
• Tim Robbins
  liner notes
• Tom Petty
  liner notes
• Tom Waits
  liner notes
• Trisha Yearwood
  liner notes
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [1.17-20, 2.2, 2.5-6, 2.8, 2.11-12, 2.15]
• Wally Singleton
  background vocals [9]
• Waylon Jennings
  background vocals [17], guitar [17], performer [17-18], vocal [17]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [15]
• Willie Nelson
  liner notes, background vocals [17], guitar [17], performer [17], vocal [17]
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Issues

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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

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  2001
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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

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  25 February 2002
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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

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  2002
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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

  2x CD
  22 December 2005