The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  I Walk the Line
  2:46
• 2
  Cry, Cry, Cry
  2:26
• 3
  Hey Porter
  2:14
  3.5 ★
• 4
  So Doggone Lonesome
  2:35
• 5
  Get Rhythm
  2:15
  4.0 ★
• 6
  There You Go
  2:17
• 7
  Train of Love
  2:24
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Don’t Make Me Go
  2:30
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Next in Line
  2:48
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Home of the Blues
  2:41
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Give My Love to Rose
  2:46
• 12
  Rock Island Line
  2:11
  3.8 ★
• 13
  (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
  2:25
  4.4 ★
• 14
  Country Boy
  1:52
• 15
  Doin’ My Time
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Wreck of the Old ’97
  1:47
  3.6 ★
• 17
  Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  2:12
  4.5 ★
• 18
  Big River
  2:33
  3.2 ★
• 19
  Come In, Stranger
  1:42
• 20
  The Ways of a Woman in Love
  2:26
• CD 2
• 1
  Folsom Prison Blues
  2:52
  4.4 ★
• 2
  You’re the Nearest Thing to Heaven
  2:40
• 3
  All Over Again
  2:15
• 4
  What Do I Care?
  2:06
• 5
  It’s Just About Time
  2:08
• 6
  I Just Thought You’d Like to Know
  2:23
• 7
  Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  3:04
• 8
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:37
• 9
  Thanks a Lot
  2:39
• 10
  Luther Played the Boogie
  2:06
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Frankie’s Man, Johnny
  2:18
• 12
  You Dreamer You
  1:51
• 13
  Katy Too
  1:58
• 14
  I Forgot to Remember to Forget
  1:54
• 15
  I Got Stripes
  2:06
• 16
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:47
• 17
  Goodbye, Little Darlin’ Goodbye
  2:16
• 18
  You Tell Me
  1:21
• 19
  Straight a’s in Love
  2:16
• 20
  I Love You Because
  2:25
• CD 3
• 1
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:54
  3.8 ★
• 2
  Hey, Good Lookin’
  1:43
• 3
  Seasons of My Heart
  2:31
• 4
  Smiling Bill McCall
  2:07
• 5
  Down the Street to 301
  2:06
• 6
  The Story of a Broken Heart
  2:12
• 7
  Second Honeymoon
  1:56
• 8
  Honky Tonk Girl
  2:00
• 9
  Mean‐Eyed Cat
  2:32
• 10
  Oh, Lonesome Me
  2:31
• 11
  Life Goes On
  2:01
• 12
  Locomotive Man
  2:51
• 13
  The Rebel‐Johnny Yuma
  1:54
• 14
  The Ballad of Boot Hill
  2:39
• 15
  Sugartime
  1:49
• 16
  Tennessee Flat‐Top Box
  3:00
• 17
  Blue Train
  2:02
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Born to Lose
  2:10
• 19
  In the Jailhouse Now
  2:23
• 20
  Bonanza!
  2:17

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Release credits

• Asa Wilkerson
  background vocals [9-10, 17]
• Bill Abbott
  background vocals [9-10, 17]
• Bill Busby
  background vocals [1]
• Cyd Mosteller
  background vocals [9-10, 17]
• Dave LaBonte
  background vocals [1]
• Don Carter
  background vocals [9-10, 17]
• Don Law
  producer [3.4, 3.7, 2.15]
• Frank Jones
  producer [4]
• George Evans
  background vocals [1]
• Jack Clement
  guitar [8-9, 18], producer [1.10, 1.17-19, 3.1]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [1.19, 3.1]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [3.1, 1.19]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [2.1, 2.10, 3.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7-10, 1.12-13, 1.15-19], arranger [12, 16], lead vocals [1.3, 1.5, 1.7-10, 1.12-13, 1.15-17, 1.19, 2.1, 2.10, 3.1], vocal [1.18, 2.1]
• Lee Holt
  background vocals [9-10, 17]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [3.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7-10, 1.12-13, 1.15-19, 2.1, 2.10]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [18], double bass [3.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7-10, 1.12-13, 1.15-17, 1.19, 2.1, 2.10]
• Nita Smith
  background vocals [9-10, 17]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [1.3, 1.5, 1.7-9, 1.12-13, 1.15-16, 2.1]
• The Tennessee Two
  performer [18]
• Wally Singleton
  background vocals [1]
• Show all credits (20)

Issues

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  The Absolutely Essential 3 CD Collection

  3x CD
  2015