The Greatest Songs

Tracklist

• CD 1: The Singles As & Bs
• 1
  Cry, Cry, Cry
  2:29
• 2
  Hey Porter
  2:12
• 3
  Folsom Prison Blues
  2:49
  4.4 ★
• 4
  So Doggone Lonesome
  2:37
• 5
  I Walk the Line
  2:43
  4.2 ★
• 6
  Get Rhythm
  2:14
• 7
  There You Go
  2:17
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Train of Love
  2:23
• 9
  Don’t Make Me Go
  2:29
• 10
  Next in Line
  2:47
• 11
  Home of the Blues
  2:40
• 12
  Give My Love to Rose
  2:41
• 13
  Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  2:12
  4.5 ★
• 14
  Big River
  2:32
• 15
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:50
• 16
  Come in Stranger
  1:38
• CD 2: Favourite Album Tracks
• 1
  Country Boy
  1:51
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Straight A’s in Love
  2:15
• 3
  If the Good Lord’s Willing
  1:43
  1.0 ★
• 4
  I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)
  1:48
• 5
  Doin’ My Time
  2:38
• 6
  I Just Thought You’d Like to Know
  2:23
• 7
  I Could Never Be Ashamed of You
  2:15
• 8
  Rock Island Line
  2:10
  3.8 ★
• 9
  Luther Played the Boogie
  2:02
• 10
  I Love You Because
  2:26
• 11
  You’re the Nearest Thing to Heaven
  2:40
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Wreck of the Old 97
  1:59
• 13
  Born to Lose
  2:11
• 14
  Blue Train
  2:02
• 15
  Mean Eyed Cat
  2:28
• 16
  A Boy Named Sue
  3:45
• CD 3: Classics
• 1
  Katy Too
  1:56
• 2
  Oh, Lonesome Me
  2:29
• 3
  Hey, Good Lookin’
  1:42
• 4
  Sugartime
  1:48
• 5
  Wide Open Road
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Ring of Fire
  2:38
• 7
  Jackson

  Johnny Cash with June Carter
  2:45
  4.0 ★
• 8
  The Long Black Veil
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 9
  If I Were a Carpenter

  Johnny Cash with June Carter
  2:58
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Two Timin’ Woman
  1:56
• 11
  Port of Lonely Hearts
  2:33
• 12
  You’re My Baby
  1:29
• 13
  My Treasure
  1:15
• 14
  New Mexico
  2:06
• 15
  I Was There When It Happened
  2:16
• 16
  You Win Again
  2:21

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Release credits

• Asa Wilkerson
  background vocals [13]
• Bill Abbott
  background vocals [13]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [9]
• Cyd Mosteller
  background vocals [13]
• Don Carter
  background vocals [13]
• Don Law
  producer [7-8]
• Frank Jones
  producer [7-8]
• Gene Lowery Singers
  vocal [11]
• Jack Clement
  producer [3.3, 1.13, 2.11]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [11]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [11]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [2.1, 2.3, 2.8, 2.11, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.13], arranger [8], instrument [7], lead vocals [2.1, 2.3, 2.8, 2.11, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.13], vocal [1.3, 3.7]
• June Carter Cash
  additional [9], performer [7, 9], vocal [7]
• Lee Holt
  background vocals [13]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [2.1, 2.3, 2.8, 2.11, 1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.13]
• Marshall Grant
  double bass [1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.13, 2.1, 2.3, 2.8, 2.11]
• Nita Smith
  background vocals [13]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 2.1, 2.3, 2.8, 2.10]
• Show all credits (18)

Issues

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  The Greatest Songs

  3x CD
  2011