Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Folsom Prison Blues (live)
  2:45
  4.9 ★
• 2
  I Walk the Line
  2:45
  4.2 ★
• 3
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:51
  3.8 ★
• 4
  Get Rhythm
  2:13
  4.0 ★
• 5
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:47
  3.6 ★
• 7
  I Got Stripes
  2:05
• 8
  Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Ring of Fire
  2:37
  4.2 ★
• 10
  Jackson

  Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Understand Your Man
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Tennessee Flat‐Top Box
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 13
  When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below)

  Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
  2:39
• 14
  San Quentin (live)
  2:56
• 15
  The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  4:10
  4.0 ★
• 16
  The Long Black Veil
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 17
  A Boy Named Sue (live)
  3:45
  4.4 ★
• 18
  Orange Blossom Special

  Johnny Cash with Charlie McCoy, Boots Randolph & The Carter Family
  3:08
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Daddy Sang Bass
  2:21
  3.5 ★
• 20
  Where Were You (When They Crucified My Lord)
  3:51
• CD 2
• 1
  Man in Black
  2:54
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Sunday Morning Coming Down
  4:10
  2.8 ★
• 3
  Girl From the North Country

  Johnny Cash with Bob Dylan
  3:41
  3.9 ★
• 4
  It Ain’t Me Babe
  3:03
  4.5 ★
• 5
  If I Were a Carpenter

  Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Busted (live)
  1:28
• 7
  Flesh and Blood
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Wanted Man
  2:52
• 9
  What on Earth Will You Do (For Heaven’s Sake)
  2:07
• 10
  One Piece at a Time
  4:03
  4.0 ★
• 11
  (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  3:46
  4.2 ★
• 12
  There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang

  Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings
  3:17
• 13
  A Thing Called Love
  2:33
  2.0 ★
• 14
  Without Love
  2:29
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Highway Patrolman
  5:22
  4.0 ★
• 16
  The Beast in Me
  2:48
  4.2 ★
• 17
  Sea of Heartbreak
  2:42
  4.5 ★
• 18
  I Won’t Back Down
  2:09
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Wayfaring Stranger
  3:23
• 20
  Me and Bobby McGee (live from Österåker)
  3:04

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Release credits

• Alisa Jones
  hammered dulcimer [11]
• Anita Carter
  background vocals [2.7, 1.11]
• Bill Busby
  background vocals [3]
• Bill McElhiney
  trumpet [9, 11]
• Bill Pursell
  piano [9, 11]
• Billy Bowers
  editor [18]
• Bob Breault
  engineer [17]
• Bob Dylan
  guitar [3], vocal [3]
• Bob Irwin
  additional [1]
• Bob Johnson
  banjo [11], guitar [15], mandocello [11]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [1.1, 1.17, 1.19, 2.2-3, 2.5, 2.7]
• Bob Lewin
  French horn [11], trumpet [11]
• Bob Wootton
  electric guitar [1, 7, 11], guitar [17]
• Boots Randolph
  saxophone [18]
• Brian Ahern
  producer [11, 15]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [5, 8]
• Carl Perkins
  electric guitar [1, 19], guitar [17]
• Charlie Bragg
  engineer [10], producer [10]
• Charlie McCoy
  harmonica [18]
• Chuck Bragg
  engineer [10]
• Chuck Turner
  editor [18]
• Danny Jones
  engineer [10]
• Dave LaBonte
  background vocals [3]
• David Ferguson
  engineer [18], mix [18]
• David Sardy
  additional [18]
• David Schiffman
  additional [18]
• Don Davis
  producer [10]
• Don Law
  phonographic copyright [11], producer [2.4, 1.5-12, 1.15-16, 1.18]
• Earl Poole Ball
  piano [11]
• Frank Jones
  phonographic copyright [11], producer [2.4, 1.9-12, 1.15-16, 1.18]
• George Evans
  background vocals [3]
• Helen Carter
  background vocals [1.11, 2.7]
• Jack Clement
  guitar [2.11, 1.9, 1.11], producer [3]
• Jack Hale
  French horn [11], trumpet [11]
• Jack Routh
  guitar [11]
• Jan Howard
  background vocals [19], vocal [11]
• Jerry Hensley
  guitar [11]
• Jim Scott
  mix [16]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [3]
• John Carter Cash
  associate [18]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [1.2-5, 1.8, 1.11, 1.19, 2.1, 2.16], guest [3], guitar [1.1, 1.6, 1.9, 1.15, 1.17-18, 2.7, 2.11], instrument [10], lead vocals [1.2-4, 1.6, 1.9, 1.11, 1.15, 1.17-18, 2.18], producer [1], vocal [2.1, 2.7, 2.11, 2.16, 1.1, 1.5, 1.8, 1.10, 1.19]
• June Carter Cash
  additional [5], background vocals [11], performer [1.10, 2.4-5], vocal [10]
• Karl Garvin
  trumpet [11]
• Larry Butler
  producer [13]
• Lindsay Chase
  misc [18]
• Lindsey Buckingham
  acoustic guitar [17], additional [17]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [1-6, 8-9, 11, 15, 18-19]
• Mark Morris
  percussion [11]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [2.1, 1.1, 1.5-6, 1.8-9, 1.11, 1.15, 1.17-19], bass guitar [7], double bass [2-4], electric bass guitar [11]
• Mick Fleetwood
  additional [17], drums (drum set) [17]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  background vocals [2.7, 1.11]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [17]
• Nick Lowe
  producer [14]
• Norman Blake
  guitar [15], resonator guitar [11, 15]
• Ray Edenton
  guitar [18]
• Richard Dodd
  additional [18]
• Rick Rubin
  producer [16-18]
• Ricky Skaggs
  fiddle [11]
• Roger Tucker
  engineer [10]
• Rufus Long
  flute [15]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [2, 4]
• Sara Carter
  background vocals [7]
• Steve Ferrone
  drums (drum set) [17], percussion [17]
• Sylvia Massy
  engineer [17], mix [17]
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [2.7, 1.11, 1.19], performer [9, 18], vocal [2.11, 1.9, 1.15]
• The Statler Brothers
  background vocals [19]
• The Tennessee Three
  performer [7]
• Tom Petty
  organ [18], vocal [18]
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [1.1, 1.9, 1.11, 1.15, 1.17-19, 2.1, 2.7, 2.11]
• Wally Singleton
  background vocals [3]
• Waylon Jennings
  performer [12]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [11]
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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

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  22 December 2005