Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  A Thing Called Love
  2:33
  2.0 ★
• 2
  Kate
  2:18
• 3
  Bonanza
  2:19
• 4
  Wanted Man
  2:50
• 5
  I Got Stripes
  2:04
• 6
  The Chicken in Black
  3:00
• 7
  Hey Porter
  2:20
• 8
  I Walk the Line
  2:36
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Big River
  2:18
• 10
  All Over Again
  2:13
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:47
  3.6 ★
• 13
  The Rebel Johnny Yuma
  1:52
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Forty Shades of Green
  2:55
• 15
  Tennessee Flat‐Top Box
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 16
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:35
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Ring of Fire
  2:36
  4.2 ★
• 18
  Understand Your Man
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 19
  The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  4:08
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Were You There? (When They Crucified My Lord)
  3:48
• CD 2
• 1
  It Aint Me Babe

  Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash
  3:04
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Orange Blossom Special
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 3
  The One on the Right Is on the Left
  2:48
• 4
  Jackson

  Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Folsom Prison Blues (live)
  2:45
  4.9 ★
• 6
  Daddy Sang Bass
  2:21
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Girl From the North Country

  Johnny Cash with Bob Dylan
  3:43
  3.9 ★
• 8
  A Boy Named Sue (live)
  3:47
  4.4 ★
• 9
  If I Were a Carpenter

  Johnny Cash with June Carter Cash
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 10
  What Is Truth
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Flesh and Blood
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Man in Black
  2:53
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Ragged Old Flag
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 14
  One Piece at a Time
  4:02
  4.0 ★
• 15
  (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  3:45
  4.2 ★
• 16
  Song of the Patriot

  Johnny Cash with Marty Robbins
  3:29
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Highway Man
  3:04
  4.5 ★
• 18
  The Night Hank Williams Came to Town
  3:24
  5.0 ★
• 19
  The Wanderer

  U2 with Johnny Cash
  4:44
  2.8 ★
• 20
  Man in White
  5:30

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Release credits

• Alisa Jones
  hammered dulcimer [15]
• Anita Carter
  background vocals [1.8, 1.18, 2.11]
• Bill McElhiney
  trumpet [17-18]
• Bill Pursell
  piano [17-18]
• Bob Breault
  engineer [8]
• Bob Dylan
  guitar [7], vocal [7]
• Bob Irwin
  additional [5]
• Bob Johnson
  banjo [15], guitar [19], mandocello [15]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [5-11]
• Bob Lewin
  French horn [15], trumpet [15]
• Bob Wootton
  electric guitar [1.8, 2.11-12, 2.15-16], guitar [8]
• Bobby Emmons
  keyboard [17]
• Bobby Thompson
  guitar [13]
• Bobby Wood
  keyboard [17]
• 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]
• Chuck Bragg
  engineer [14]
• Danny Jones
  engineer [14]
• Dave Kirby
  guitar [16]
• David Cherry
  engineer [17]
• David Ferguson
  assistant [18]
• Don Davis
  producer [14]
• Don Law
  phonographic copyright [18], producer [1.5, 1.10-13, 1.15-19, 2.1-2, 2.4]
• Earl Poole Ball
  piano [15-16], producer [16]
• Earl Scruggs
  banjo [13]
• Flood
  electronic instruments [19], producer [19]
• Frank Jones
  phonographic copyright [18], producer [1.15, 1.17-19, 2.1-2, 2.4]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [17]
• Helen Carter
  background vocals [1.8, 1.18, 2.11]
• Jack Clement
  guitar [2.15, 1.17-18], producer [18]
• Jack Hale
  French horn [15], trumpet [15]
• Jack Routh
  guitar [15-16]
• Jan Howard
  background vocals [6], vocal [15]
• Jerry Hensley
  guitar [15-16]
• Jimmy Tittle
  bass [17]
• Joe Allen
  bass [13, 16]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [2.6, 2.12-13, 2.16, 1.11, 1.16, 1.18], background vocals [17], guest [7, 19], guitar [1.8, 1.10, 1.12, 1.17, 1.19, 2.2, 2.5, 2.8, 2.11, 2.15], instrument [4], lead vocals [2.2, 2.8, 2.19, 1.12, 1.17-19], performer [17], phonographic copyright [20], producer [12-13], spoken vocals [13], vocal [2.4-6, 2.11-12, 2.15-17, 1.8, 1.10-11, 1.13, 1.16]
• Johnny Rodriguez
  background vocals [17], guitar [17]
• June Carter Cash
  additional [9], background vocals [18], performer [1, 4, 9], vocal [4]
• Karl Garvin
  trumpet [18]
• Ken Criblez
  assistant [17]
• Kenny Malone
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Kris Kristofferson
  background vocals [17], guitar [17], performer [17], vocal [17]
• Larry Butler
  producer [1]
• Larry Greenhill
  assistant [17]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [1.10-12, 1.16-19, 2.2, 2.5-6]
• Mark Morris
  percussion [15]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [2.2, 2.5-6, 2.8, 2.12, 1.10-12, 1.16-19], bass guitar [2.11, 1.8], electric bass guitar [15]
• Marty Robbins
  background vocals [16], performer [16]
• Marty Stuart
  guitar [16], mandolin [17]
• Mickey Raphael
  harmonica [17]
• Mike Leech
  bass [17]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  background vocals [1.8, 1.18, 2.11]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [8]
• Norman Blake
  guitar [19], resonator guitar [18-19]
• Paul Davis
  background vocals [17], guitar [17], keyboard [17]
• Ray Edenton
  guitar [2]
• Ricky Skaggs
  fiddle [15]
• Roger Tucker
  engineer [14]
• Rufus Long
  flute [1.19, 2.16]
• Sara Carter
  background vocals [1.8, 2.11]
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [1.8, 1.18, 2.6, 2.11], performer [2.2, 1.17], vocal [1.17, 1.19, 2.15]
• The Edge
  background vocals [19], producer [19], synthesizer [19]
• The Oak Ridge Boys
  background vocals [13]
• The Statler Brothers
  background vocals [6]
• The Tennessee Three
  performer [1.8, 2.11]
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [2.2, 2.5-6, 2.8, 2.11-12, 2.15-16, 1.8, 1.17-19]
• Waylon Jennings
  background vocals [17], guitar [17], performer [17-18], vocal [17]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [15]
• Willie Nelson
  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

  2x CD
  2001
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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

  2x CD
  25 February 2002
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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

  2x CD
  2002
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  Man in Black: The Very Best of Johnny Cash

  2x CD
  22 December 2005