The Essential Johnny Cash

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Hey Porter
  2:13
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Cry! Cry! Cry!
  2:23
  3.6 ★
• 3
  I Walk the Line
  2:43
  4.2 ★
• 4
  Get Rhythm
  2:13
  4.0 ★
• 5
  There You Go
  2:17
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  2:11
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Big River
  2:31
  3.2 ★
• 8
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:49
  3.8 ★
• 9
  All Over Again
  2:12
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  3:02
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:46
  3.6 ★
• 12
  The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
  1:52
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Tennessee Flat-Top Box
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 14
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Ring of Fire
  2:35
  4.2 ★
• 16
  The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  4:07
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Orange Blossom Special
  3:06
  4.0 ★
• 18
  Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)

  Johnny Cash with The Carter Family
  3:51
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  It Ain’t Me, Babe

  feat. June Carter Cash
  3:03
  4.5 ★
• 2
  The One on the Right Is on the Left
  2:47
  5.0 ★
• 3
  Jackson

  feat. June Carter Cash
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Folsom Prison Blues (live)
  2:44
  4.9 ★
• 5
  Daddy Sang Bass
  2:20
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Girl From the North Country

  Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
  3:42
  3.9 ★
• 7
  A Boy Named Sue (live)
  3:46
  4.4 ★
• 8
  If I Were a Carpenter

  feat. June Carter Cash
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Sunday Morning Coming Down (live)
  4:09
  2.8 ★
• 10
  Flesh and Blood
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Man in Black
  2:52
  3.5 ★
• 12
  Ragged Old Flag
  3:08
  3.0 ★
• 13
  One Piece at a Time
  4:01
  4.0 ★
• 14
  (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  3:44
  4.2 ★
• 15
  Song of the Patriot

  feat. Marty Robbins
  3:28
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Highwayman

  The Highwaymen
  3:03
  4.5 ★
• 17
  The Night Hank Williams Came to Town

  feat. Waylon Jennings
  3:23
  5.0 ★
• 18
  The Wanderer

  U2 & Johnny Cash
  4:43
  2.8 ★

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Travelin’ Thru, 1967–1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15

Travelin’ Thru, 1967–1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15 2019

The Hits

The Hits 2018

The Singer and the Song

The Singer and the Song 2014

Out Among the Stars

Out Among the Stars 2014

Release credits

• Alisa Jones
  hammered dulcimer [14]
• Anita Carter
  background vocals [10]
• Asa Wilkerson
  background vocals [6]
• Bill Abbott
  background vocals [6]
• Bill Busby
  background vocals [8]
• Bill McElhiney
  trumpet [15]
• Bill Pursell
  piano [15, 18]
• Bob Breault
  engineer [7]
• Bob Dylan
  guitar [6], vocal [6]
• Bob Irwin
  additional [4]
• Bob Johnson
  banjo [14], five-string banjo [18], guitar [16], mandocello [14]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [4-10]
• Bob Lewin
  French horn [14], trumpet [14]
• Bob Wootton
  electric guitar [10-11, 14-15], guitar [7]
• Bobby Emmons
  keyboard [16]
• Bobby Thompson
  guitar [12]
• Bobby Wood
  keyboard [16]
• Boots Randolph
  saxophone [17]
• Brian Ahern
  producer [14]
• Brian Eno
  additional [18], producer [18], synthesizer [18]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [9-10, 14]
• Carl Perkins
  electric guitar [4-5], guitar [7]
• Charles Cochran
  piano [12]
• Charlie Bragg
  engineer [13], producer [12-13]
• Charlie McCoy
  harmonica [1.17, 2.12]
• Charlie Williams
  spoken vocals [17]
• Chips Moman
  background vocals [16], engineer [16], guitar [16], producer [16]
• Chuck Bragg
  engineer [13]
• Cyd Mosteller
  background vocals [6]
• Danny Jones
  engineer [13]
• Dave Kirby
  guitar [15]
• Dave LaBonte
  background vocals [8]
• David Cherry
  engineer [16]
• David Ferguson
  assistant [17]
• Don Carter
  background vocals [6]
• Don Davis
  producer [13]
• Don Law
  producer [1.9-18, 2.1-3]
• Earl Poole Ball
  piano [14-15], producer [15]
• Earl Scruggs
  banjo [12]
• Flood
  electronic instruments [18], producer [18]
• Frank Jones
  producer [1.13, 1.15-18, 2.1-3]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [16]
• George Evans
  background vocals [8]
• Helen Carter
  background vocals [10]
• Jack Clement
  guitar [1.7, 1.15, 2.14], producer [2.17, 1.6-8]
• Jack Hale
  French horn [14], trumpet [14]
• Jack Routh
  guitar [14-15]
• Jan Howard
  background vocals [5], vocal [14]
• Jerry Hensley
  guitar [14-15]
• Jimmy Tittle
  bass [16]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [8]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [8]
• Joe Allen
  bass [12, 15]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [1.1-8, 1.10, 1.14, 1.18, 2.5, 2.11-12, 2.15], background vocals [16], guest [6, 18], guitar [1.9, 1.11, 1.15-17, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10, 2.14], instrument [3], lead vocals [1.1-6, 1.8, 1.11, 1.15-17, 2.7, 2.18], performer [16], producer [11-12], spoken vocals [12], vocal [1.7, 1.9-10, 1.12, 1.14, 1.18, 2.3-5, 2.10-11, 2.14-16]
• Johnny Rodriguez
  background vocals [16], guitar [16]
• June Carter Cash
  additional [8], performer [1, 3, 8], vocal [3]
• Ken Criblez
  assistant [16]
• Kenny Malone
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Kris Kristofferson
  background vocals [16], guitar [16], performer [16], vocal [16]
• Larry Greenhill
  assistant [16]
• Lee Holt
  background vocals [6]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [2.4-5, 1.1-11, 1.14-18]
• Mark Morris
  percussion [14]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [2.4-5, 2.7, 2.11, 1.7, 1.9-11, 1.14-18], bass guitar [10], double bass [1-6, 8], electric bass guitar [14]
• Marty Robbins
  background vocals [15], performer [15]
• Marty Stuart
  guitar [15], mandolin [16]
• Mickey Raphael
  harmonica [16]
• Mike Leech
  bass [16]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [18], background vocals [10]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [7]
• Nita Smith
  background vocals [6]
• Norman Blake
  guitar [16], resonator guitar [16]
• Paul Davis
  background vocals [16], guitar [16], keyboard [16]
• Ray Edenton
  guitar [17]
• Ricky Skaggs
  fiddle [14]
• Roger Tucker
  engineer [13]
• Rufus Long
  flute [2.15, 1.16]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [1-5]
• Sara Carter
  background vocals [10]
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [1.18, 2.5, 2.10], performer [15, 17-18], vocal [1.15-16, 2.14]
• The Edge
  background vocals [18], producer [18], synthesizer [18]
• The Oak Ridge Boys
  background vocals [12]
• The Statler Brothers
  background vocals [5]
• The Tennessee Three
  performer [10]
• The Tennessee Two
  performer [7]
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [1.15-18, 2.4-5, 2.7, 2.10-11, 2.14-15]
• Wally Singleton
  background vocals [8]
• Waylon Jennings
  background vocals [16], guitar [16], performer [16-17], vocal [16]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [14]
• Willie Nelson
  background vocals [16], guitar [16], performer [16], vocal [16]
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Issues

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  The Essential Johnny Cash

  2x CD
  12 February 2002
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  The Essential Johnny Cash

  Digital Media
  12 February 2002
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  The Essential Johnny Cash

  2x CD
  12 February 2002
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  The Essential Johnny Cash

  2x CD
  2002
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  The Essential Johnny Cash

  2x CD
  2002
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  The Essential Johnny Cash

  2x CD
  2002
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  The Essential Johnny Cash: Limited Edition 3.0

  3x CD
  26 August 2008
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  The Essential Johnny Cash

  2x 12" Vinyl
  2015