The Greatest: The Number Ones

Tracklist

• 1
  I Walk the Line
  2:45
  4.2 ★
• 2
  There You Go
  2:18
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  2:11
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:50
  3.8 ★
• 5
  The Ways of a Woman in Love
  2:15
• 6
  What Do I Care
  2:06
• 7
  Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Ring of Fire
  2:36
• 9
  Understand Your Man
  2:44
• 10
  The One on the Right Is on the Left
  2:48
• 11
  Folsom Prison Blues (live)
  2:44
  4.9 ★
• 12
  Daddy Sang Bass
  2:21
  3.5 ★
• 13
  A Boy Named Sue (live)
  3:46
  4.4 ★
• 14
  Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down (live)
  4:08
• 15
  Flesh and Blood
  2:37
• 16
  One Piece at a Time
  4:02
• 17
  There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang

  Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings
  3:17
• 18
  (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  3:47
  4.2 ★
• 19
  Highwayman

  Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings & Kris Kristofferson
  3:03
  4.5 ★

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Release credits

• Adam Farber
  creative direction
• Alisa Jones
  hammered dulcimer [18]
• Asa Wilkerson
  background vocals [3]
• Bill Abbott
  background vocals [3]
• Bill Busby
  background vocals [4]
• Bob Breault
  engineer [13]
• Bob Irwin
  additional [11]
• Bob Johnson
  banjo [18], mandocello [18]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [11-15]
• Bob Lewin
  French horn [18], trumpet [18]
• Bob Wootton
  electric guitar [18], guitar [13]
• Bobby Emmons
  keyboard [19]
• Bobby Wood
  keyboard [19]
• Brian Ahern
  producer [18]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [7]
• Carl Perkins
  electric guitar [11-12], guitar [13]
• Charlie Bragg
  producer [16]
• Chips Moman
  background vocals [19], engineer [19], guitar [19], producer [19]
• Cyd Mosteller
  background vocals [3]
• Dave LaBonte
  background vocals [4]
• David Cherry
  engineer [19]
• Don Carter
  background vocals [3]
• Don Davis
  producer [16]
• Don Law
  producer [6-10]
• Earl Poole Ball
  piano [18]
• Frank Jones
  producer [8-10]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [19]
• Gene Lowery Singers
  vocal [5]
• George Evans
  background vocals [4]
• Gregg Geller
  task
• Jack Clement
  guitar [18], producer [3-5]
• Jack Hale
  French horn [18], trumpet [18]
• Jack Routh
  guitar [18]
• Jan Howard
  background vocals [12], vocal [18]
• Jerry Hensley
  guitar [18]
• Jim Parham
  creative direction
• Jimmy Tittle
  bass [19]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [4-5]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [4-5]
• John Carter Cash
  executive
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [1-5, 7, 12], background vocals [19], guitar [11, 13, 18], lead vocals [1-5, 13], performer [19], producer [17], vocal [7, 11-12, 18-19]
• Johnny Rodriguez
  background vocals [19], guitar [19]
• Ken Criblez
  assistant [19]
• Kris Kristofferson
  background vocals [19], guitar [19], performer [19], vocal [19]
• Larry Greenhill
  assistant [19]
• Lee Holt
  background vocals [3]
• Lou Robin
  executive
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [1-5, 7, 11-12]
• Maria Triana
  mastering
• Marisa Magliola
  creative direction
• Mark Morris
  percussion [18]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [7, 11-13], double bass [1-5], electric bass guitar [18]
• Marty Stuart
  mandolin [19]
• Mickey Raphael
  harmonica [19]
• Mike Leech
  bass [19]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [13]
• Nita Smith
  background vocals [3]
• Paul Davis
  background vocals [19], guitar [19], keyboard [19]
• Randall Martin
  art direction, design
• Ricky Skaggs
  fiddle [18]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [1-2]
• Steve Berkowitz
  task
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [12], vocal [18]
• The Statler Brothers
  background vocals [12]
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [11-13, 18]
• Wally Singleton
  background vocals [4]
• Waylon Jennings
  background vocals [19], guitar [19], performer [19], producer [17], vocal [19]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [18]
• Willie Nelson
  background vocals [19], guitar [19], performer [19], vocal [19]
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Issues

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  The Greatest: The Number Ones

  CD
  7 August 2012
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  The Greatest: The Number Ones

  CD, DVD-Video (Deluxe Edition)
  2012
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  The Greatest: The Number Ones

  CD
  2012