The Essential Johnny Cash (1955-1983)

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Hey Porter
  2:14
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Cry! Cry! Cry!
  2:24
  3.6 ★
• 3
  Folsom Prison Blues
  2:50
  4.4 ★
• 4
  Luther Played the Boogie
  2:04
  4.5 ★
• 5
  Get Rhythm
  2:14
  4.0 ★
• 6
  I Walk the Line
  2:45
  4.2 ★
• 7
  Home of the Blues
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Give My Love to Rose
  2:46
• 9
  Rock Island Line
  2:10
  3.8 ★
• 10
  Doin’ My Time
  2:39
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Big River
  2:32
  3.2 ★
• 12
  Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  2:12
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:51
  3.8 ★
• 14
  The Ways of a Woman in Love
  2:16
• 15
  Thanks a Lot
  2:38
• 16
  Oh, What a Dream
  2:03
• 17
  What Do I Care
  2:07
• 18
  All Over Again
  2:13
  4.0 ★
• 19
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 20
  I’d Just Be Fool Enough (to Fall)
  2:06
• 21
  Walking the Blues
  2:13
• 22
  Frankie’s Man, Johnny
  2:18
• 23
  Tennessee Flat‐Top Box
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Sing It Pretty, Sue
  1:59
• 25
  Pickin’ Time
  1:58
  3.0 ★
• 26
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:47
  3.6 ★
• 27
  The Old Account
  2:24
• 28
  (There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (for Me)
  2:50
• 29
  Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
  3:51
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 2
  The Ballad of Boot Hill
  2:36
• 3
  The Rebel – Johnny Yuma
  1:52
  4.0 ★
• 4
  The Big Battle
  4:06
• 5
  When the Roses Bloom Again
  2:37
• 6
  The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  4:09
  4.0 ★
• 7
  The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer
  8:26
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Dark as a Dungeon
  2:29
• 9
  The Long Black Veil
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 10
  I Got Stripes
  2:05
• 11
  25 Minutes to Go
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 12
  The Wall
  2:11
• 13
  Busted
  2:18
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Bad News
  2:56
• 15
  Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog
  2:07
• 16
  Orange Blossom Special
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Ring of Fire
  2:38
  4.2 ★
• 18
  Understand Your Man
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Jackson
  2:46
  4.0 ★
• 20
  Blistered
  2:22
• 21
  See Ruby Fall
  2:51
• 22
  Cisco Clifton’s Fillin’ Station
  2:43
• 23
  Daddy Sang Bass
  2:19
  3.5 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  Folsom Prison Blues (live)
  2:41
  4.9 ★
• 2
  Cocaine Blues (live)
  2:46
• 3
  San Quentin (live)
  2:33
• 4
  A Boy Named Sue (live)
  3:48
  4.4 ★
• 5
  Wanted Man
  2:51
• 6
  Singin’ in Vietnam Talkin’ Blues
  2:58
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Man in Black
  2:53
  3.5 ★
• 8
  What Is Truth?
  2:39
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Flesh and Blood
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Sunday Morning Coming Down
  4:07
  2.8 ★
• 11
  Oney
  3:05
• 12
  One Piece at a Time
  4:02
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Hit the Road and Go
  2:42
• 14
  Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)
  3:21
• 15
  I Will Rock and Roll With You
  2:52
• 16
  No Expectations
  3:12
• 17
  (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  3:47
  4.2 ★
• 18
  Bull Rider
  3:09
• 19
  Highway Patrolman
  5:22
  4.0 ★
• 20
  After the Ball
  3:01
• 21
  Without Love
  2:29
  3.0 ★
• 22
  The Last Time
  3:16
• 23
  I’m Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar
  3:00

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The Singer and the Song

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Out Among the Stars

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Release credits

• Alisa Jones
  hammered dulcimer [17]
• Anita Carter
  background vocals [2.14, 2.18, 3.9]
• Asa Wilkerson
  background vocals [7, 12]
• Bill Abbott
  background vocals [7, 12]
• Bill Busby
  background vocals [13]
• Bill McElhiney
  trumpet [17-18]
• Bill Pursell
  piano [1.28-29, 2.7, 2.14, 2.17-18]
• Bob Breault
  engineer [4]
• Bob Irwin
  additional [1]
• Bob Johnson
  banjo [3.17, 2.7], five-string banjo [29], guitar [6], mandocello [2.11, 3.17]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [2.20-21, 2.23, 3.1, 3.4, 3.8-10]
• Bob Lewin
  French horn [17], trumpet [17]
• Bob Wootton
  electric guitar [7, 9, 17], guitar [4]
• Boots Randolph
  saxophone [16]
• Brian Ahern
  producer [17, 19]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [1.18-19, 1.25, 2.1]
• Carl Perkins
  electric guitar [2.23, 3.1], guitar [4]
• Charlie Bragg
  engineer [12], producer [12]
• Charlie McCoy
  harmonica [16]
• Chuck Bragg
  engineer [12]
• Cyd Mosteller
  background vocals [7, 12]
• Danny Jones
  engineer [12]
• Dave LaBonte
  background vocals [13]
• Don Carter
  background vocals [7, 12]
• Don Davis
  producer [12]
• Don Law
  phonographic copyright [14, 18], producer [2.1, 2.3, 2.6-14, 2.16-19, 1.18-19, 1.23, 1.25-26, 1.28-29]
• Earl Poole Ball
  piano [17], producer [14, 22]
• Frank Jones
  phonographic copyright [14, 18], producer [1.23, 1.28-29, 2.6-9, 2.11-14, 2.16-19]
• Gene Lowery Singers
  vocal [14]
• George Evans
  background vocals [13]
• Gregg Geller
  producer
• Helen Carter
  background vocals [2.14, 2.18, 3.9]
• Jack Clement
  guitar [2.14, 2.17-18, 3.17, 1.11], producer [7-8, 11-14]
• Jack Hale
  French horn [17], trumpet [17]
• Jack Routh
  guitar [17]
• Jan Howard
  background vocals [23], vocal [17]
• Jerry Hensley
  guitar [17]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [13-14]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [13-14]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [3.7, 1.1-7, 1.9-14, 1.19, 1.25, 1.28-29, 2.1, 2.14, 2.18, 2.23], arranger [9], guitar [3.1, 3.4, 3.9, 3.17, 1.18, 1.26, 2.6-7, 2.11, 2.16-17], instrument [19], lead vocals [2.6-7, 2.14, 2.16-18, 3.4, 1.1-7, 1.9-10, 1.12-14, 1.26], performer [15], producer [7], vocal [1.3, 1.11, 1.18-19, 1.25, 1.28-29, 2.1, 2.3, 2.11, 2.19, 2.23, 3.1, 3.7, 3.9, 3.17]
• June Carter Cash
  background vocals [14, 18], performer [19], vocal [19]
• Karl Garvin
  trumpet [18]
• Lee Holt
  background vocals [7, 12]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [2.1, 2.6-7, 2.11, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.23, 3.1, 1.1-7, 1.9-14, 1.18-19, 1.25-26, 1.28-29]
• Mark Morris
  percussion [17]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [3.1, 3.4, 3.7, 1.11, 1.18-19, 1.25-26, 1.28-29, 2.1, 2.6-7, 2.11, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.23], bass guitar [9], double bass [1-7, 9-10, 12-14], electric bass guitar [17]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [28-29], background vocals [3.9, 2.14, 2.18]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [4]
• Nick Lowe
  producer [21]
• Nita Smith
  background vocals [7, 12]
• Norman Blake
  guitar [6], resonator guitar [6, 14, 18]
• Ray Edenton
  guitar [16]
• Ricky Skaggs
  fiddle [17]
• Roger Tucker
  engineer [12]
• Rufus Long
  flute [6]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [1-3, 5-6, 9-10]
• Sara Carter
  background vocals [9]
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [3.9, 1.28-29, 2.14, 2.18, 2.23], performer [2.16-17, 1.29], vocal [3.17, 2.6-7, 2.17]
• The Statler Brothers
  background vocals [23], vocal [11]
• The Tennessee Three
  performer [9]
• The Tennessee Two
  performer [11]
• Vic Anesini
  mastering
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [2.6-7, 2.11, 2.14, 2.16-18, 2.23, 3.1, 3.4, 3.7, 3.9, 3.17, 1.28-29]
• Wally Singleton
  background vocals [13]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [17]
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Issues

• 

  T
  The Essential Johnny Cash (1955-1983)

  3x CD
  1992
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  T
  The Essential Johnny Cash

  3x CD (Remastered)
  1992