Reader’s Digest Classics

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Ring of Fire
  2:38
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Understand Your Man
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 3
  I Walk the Line
  2:35
  4.4 ★
• 4
  I Got Stripes
  2:06
• 5
  Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
  2:59
• 6
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:50
  3.6 ★
• 7
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:55
  3.8 ★
• 8
  Blistered
  2:25
• 9
  Folsom Prison Blues
  2:46
  4.4 ★
• 10
  San Quentin
  2:31
• 11
  If I Were a Carpenter
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Kate
  2:18
• 13
  One Piece at a Time
  4:04
• 14
  Man in Black
  2:54
  3.5 ★
• 15
  The One on the Right Is on the Left
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• 16
  Hey, Porter
  2:22
• 17
  The Rebel – Johnny Yuma
  1:55
• 18
  Flesh and Blood
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 19
  The Long Black Veil
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 20
  The Baron
  3:39
• 21
  Any Old Wind That Blows
  2:46
• 22
  A Boy Named Sue
  3:41
  4.4 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  A Thing Called Love
  2:34
  2.0 ★
• 2
  Daddy Sang Bass
  2:24
  3.5 ★
• 3
  The Streets of Laredo
  3:42
• 4
  He’ll Understand and Say Well Done
  2:26
• 5
  Amen
  2:07
• 6
  Gospel Boogie
  2:38
• 7
  What Is Truth
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Amazing Grace
  2:28
• 9
  Jesus Was a Carpenter
  3:57
• 10
  Shepherd of My Heart
  2:11
• 11
  All of God’s Children Ain’t Free
  2:13
• 12
  If I Had a Hammer
  2:28
• 13
  This Train Is Bound for Glory
  3:30
• 14
  Remember the Alamo
  2:48
• 15
  The Shifting Whispering Sands
  2:55
• 16
  Old Shep
  2:24
• 17
  Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
  2:29
• 18
  The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  4:07
  4.0 ★
• 19
  If We Never Meet Again
  3:01
• 20
  Peace in the Valley
  2:12
• 21
  These Hands
  3:49
• 22
  Sunday Morning Coming Down
  4:03
• CD 3
• 1
  Jackson
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Forty Shades of Green
  2:56
• 4
  In Them Old Cottonfields Back Home
  2:35
• 5
  The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
  3:31
  3.0 ★
• 6
  It Ain’t Me, Babe
  3:05
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Wabash Cannonball
  2:40
• 8
  The City of New Orleans
  3:44
• 9
  My Old Kentucky Home
  2:51
  5.0 ★
• 10
  I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
  2:43
• 11
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Delia’s Gone
  2:01
• 13
  Green Grow the Lilacs
  2:49
• 14
  Busted
  2:18
• 15
  (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  3:44
  4.2 ★
• 16
  Wreck of the Old ’97
  2:47
• 17
  Orange Blossom Special
  3:08
  4.0 ★
• 18
  When It’s Springtime in Alaska
  2:40
• 19
  The Lady Came From Baltimore
  2:47
• 20
  Keep on the Sunny Side
  2:29
• 21
  Let There Be Country
  2:58

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Release credits

• Alisa Jones
  hammered dulcimer [15]
• Anita Carter
  background vocals [2, 18]
• Bill Busby
  background vocals [7]
• Bill McElhiney
  trumpet [1-2]
• Bill Pursell
  piano [1-2]
• Bob Breault
  engineer [22]
• Bob Johnson
  banjo [15], guitar [1.3, 2.18], mandocello [15]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [2.2, 2.7, 1.8, 1.11, 1.18, 1.22]
• Bob Lewin
  French horn [15], trumpet [15]
• Bob Wootton
  electric guitar [1.14, 1.18, 3.15], guitar [22]
• Boots Randolph
  saxophone [17]
• Brian Ahern
  producer [15]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [2, 11]
• Carl Perkins
  electric guitar [2], guitar [22]
• Charlie McCoy
  harmonica [17]
• Dave LaBonte
  background vocals [7]
• Don Law
  phonographic copyright [2-3], producer [3.1-2, 3.4, 3.6, 3.11, 3.17, 1.1-6, 1.15, 1.19, 2.5, 2.18]
• Earl Poole Ball
  piano [15]
• Frank Jones
  phonographic copyright [2-3], producer [2.5, 2.18, 3.1, 3.4, 3.6, 3.17, 1.1-3, 1.5, 1.15, 1.19]
• George Evans
  background vocals [7]
• Helen Carter
  background vocals [2, 18]
• Jack Clement
  guitar [1.1-2, 3.15], producer [7]
• Jack Hale
  French horn [15], trumpet [15]
• Jack Routh
  guitar [15]
• Jan Howard
  background vocals [2], vocal [15]
• Jerry Hensley
  guitar [15]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [7]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [1.2-3, 1.7, 1.9, 1.14, 2.2, 3.2, 3.11], guitar [1.1, 1.6, 1.18, 1.22, 2.18, 3.15, 3.17], instrument [1], lead vocals [2.18, 1.1-3, 1.6-7, 1.9, 1.22, 3.17], producer [14], vocal [2.2, 1.9, 1.14, 1.18, 3.1-2, 3.11, 3.15]
• June Carter Cash
  additional [11], background vocals [2], performer [1.11, 3.1, 3.6], vocal [1]
• Karl Garvin
  trumpet [2]
• Larry Butler
  producer [1]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [3.2, 3.11, 3.17, 1.1-3, 1.6-7, 1.9, 2.2, 2.18]
• Mark Morris
  percussion [15]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [2.2, 2.18, 1.1-3, 1.6, 1.14, 1.22, 3.2, 3.11, 3.17], bass guitar [18], double bass [7, 9], electric bass guitar [15]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  background vocals [2, 18]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [22]
• Norman Blake
  guitar [2.18, 1.3], resonator guitar [1.2, 2.18]
• Ray Edenton
  guitar [17]
• Ricky Skaggs
  fiddle [15]
• Rufus Long
  flute [18]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [9]
• Sara Carter
  background vocals [18]
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [1.2, 1.18, 2.2], performer [1.1, 3.17], vocal [2.18, 3.15, 1.1]
• The Statler Brothers
  background vocals [2]
• The Tennessee Three
  performer [18]
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [1.1-3, 1.14, 1.18, 1.22, 2.2, 2.18, 3.15, 3.17]
• Wally Singleton
  background vocals [7]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [15]
• Show all credits (49)

Issues

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  R
  Reader’s Digest Classics

  3x CD
  1994