The Legend

Tracklist

• CD 1: Win, Place and Show: The Hits
• 1
  I Walk the Line
  2:45
  4.2 ★
• 2
  There You Go
  2:17
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Home of the Blues
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  2:12
  4.5 ★
• 5
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:50
  3.8 ★
• 6
  The Ways of a Woman in Love
  2:16
• 7
  Don’t Take Your Guns to Town
  3:03
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Ring of Fire
  2:37
  4.2 ★
• 9
  The Matador
  2:46
• 10
  Understand Your Man
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 11
  The Ballad of Ira Hayes
  4:09
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Orange Blossom Special
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 13
  The One on the Right Is on the Left
  2:48
  5.0 ★
• 14
  Rosanna’s Going Wild
  1:59
• 15
  Folsom Prison Blues
  2:45
  4.4 ★
• 16
  Daddy Sang Bass
  2:21
  3.5 ★
• 17
  A Boy Named Sue
  3:46
  4.4 ★
• 18
  What Is Truth
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
  4:07
  2.8 ★
• 20
  Flesh and Blood
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 21
  Man in Black
  2:52
  3.5 ★
• 22
  A Thing Called Love
  2:33
  2.0 ★
• 23
  Kate
  2:17
• 24
  Oney
  3:05
• 25
  Any Old Wind That Blows
  2:46
• 26
  One Piece at a Time
  4:01
  4.0 ★
• 27
  (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
  3:46
  4.2 ★
• CD 2: Old Favorites and New
• 1
  Hey Porter
  2:14
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Cry! Cry! Cry!
  2:25
  3.6 ★
• 3
  Luther Played the Boogie
  2:03
  4.5 ★
• 4
  Get Rhythm
  2:14
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Give My Love to Rose
  2:45
• 6
  I Was There When It Happened
  2:16
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Big River
  2:32
  3.2 ★
• 8
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Pickin’ Time
  1:58
  3.0 ★
• 10
  The Man on the Hill
  2:09
  5.0 ★
• 11
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:47
  3.6 ★
• 12
  Tennessee Flat‐Top Box
  2:59
  4.0 ★
• 13
  I Got Stripes
  2:04
• 14
  Troublesome Waters
  3:51
  5.0 ★
• 15
  The Long Black Veil
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Dark as a Dungeon
  2:28
• 17
  The Wall
  2:12
• 18
  25 Minutes to Go
  3:12
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Cocaine Blues
  2:51
• 20
  Doin’ My Time
  4:13
• 21
  I Will Rock and Roll With You
  2:51
• 22
  Without Love
  2:30
  3.0 ★
• 23
  The Big Light
  2:41
• 24
  Highway Patrolman
  5:21
  4.0 ★
• 25
  I’m Never Gonna Roam Again
  2:34
• 26
  When I’m Gray
  3:33
• 27
  Forever Young
  6:16
• CD 3: The Great American Songbook
• 1
  The Wreck of the Old 97
  1:47
  3.6 ★
• 2
  Rock Island Line
  2:11
  3.8 ★
• 3
  Goodnight Irene
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Goodbye, Little Darlin’
  2:15
• 5
  Born to Lose
  2:10
• 6
  Walking the Blues
  2:13
• 7
  Frankie’s Man, Johnny
  2:17
• 8
  Delia’s Gone
  3:02
• 9
  In the Jailhouse Now
  2:23
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Waiting for a Train
  2:07
• 11
  Casey Jones
  3:02
• 12
  The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer
  8:26
  4.0 ★
• 13
  I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
  3:26
• 14
  Sweet Betsy From Pike
  3:18
• 15
  The Streets of Laredo
  3:40
• 16
  Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
  2:28
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Down in the Valley
  3:11
• 18
  Wabash Cannonball
  2:40
• 19
  The Great Speckled Bird
  2:08
  3.0 ★
• 20
  Wildwood Flower
  2:12
• 21
  Cotton Fields
  2:34
• 22
  Pick a Bale o’ Cotton
  1:58
• 23
  Old Shep
  2:23
  3.0 ★
• 24
  I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight
  2:48
• 25
  I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
  2:39
• 26
  Time Changes Everything
  1:48
• CD 4: Family and Friends
• 1
  Keep on the Sunny Side

  feat. The Carter Family
  2:16
• 2
  Diamonds in the Rough

  feat. Maybelle Carter
  3:10
• 3
  Peace in the Valley

  feat. The Carter Family
  2:49
• 4
  Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)

  feat. The Carter Family
  3:56
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Another Man Done Gone

  feat. Anita Carter
  2:37
• 6
  Pick the Wildwood Flower

  feat. Maybelle Carter
  2:59
• 7
  Jackson

  feat. June Carter Cash
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 8
  If I Were a Carpenter

  feat. June Carter Cash
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Girl From the North Country

  feat. Bob Dylan
  3:42
  3.9 ★
• 10
  One More Ride

  feat. Marty Stuart
  3:27
• 11
  You Can’t Beat Jesus Christ

  feat. Billy Joe Shaver
  3:40
• 12
  There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang

  feat. Waylon Jennings
  3:17
• 13
  We Ought to Be Ashamed

  feat. Elvis Costello
  2:46
• 14
  Crazy Old Soldier

  feat. Ray Charles
  3:34
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Silver Haired Daddy of Mine

  feat. Tommy Cash
  2:49
• 16
  Who’s Gene Autry

  feat. John Carter Cash
  3:52
• 17
  The Night Hank Williams Came to Town

  feat. Waylon Jennings
  3:24
  5.0 ★
• 18
  I Walk the Line (Revisited)

  feat. Rodney Crowell
  3:51
• 19
  Highwayman

  The Highwaymen
  3:03
  4.5 ★
• 20
  The Wanderer

  U2 feat. Johnny Cash
  4:44
  2.8 ★
• 21
  September When It Comes

  feat. Rosanne Cash
  3:40
• 22
  Tears in the Holston River

  feat. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  3:42
• 23
  Far Side Banks of Jordan

  feat. June Carter Cash
  2:42
• 24
  It Takes One to Know Me

  feat. June Carter Cash & Carlene Carter
  3:36

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The Hits

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Release credits

• Alisa Jones
  hammered dulcimer [27]
• Anita Carter
  background vocals [1.10, 1.20, 2.14], performer [5]
• Asa Wilkerson
  background vocals [3-4]
• Benmont Tench
  electric piano [18]
• Bill Abbott
  background vocals [3-4]
• Bill Busby
  background vocals [5]
• Bill McElhiney
  trumpet [8, 10]
• Bill Pursell
  piano [3.12, 4.4, 1.8, 1.10]
• Billy Joe Shaver
  performer [11]
• Billy Sanford
  acoustic guitar [14]
• Billy Sherrill
  producer [14]
• Bob Breault
  engineer [17]
• Bob Dylan
  guitar [9], vocal [9]
• Bob Johnson
  banjo [1.27, 3.12], five-string banjo [4], guitar [3.15, 1.11, 2.14], mandocello [1.27, 2.18, 3.16]
• Bob Johnston
  producer [4.8-9, 1.14, 1.16-20]
• Bob Lewin
  French horn [27], trumpet [27]
• Bob Wootton
  electric guitar [4.23, 1.20-21, 1.27], guitar [17]
• Bobby Emmons
  keyboard [19]
• Bobby Wood
  keyboard [19]
• Boots Randolph
  saxophone [12]
• Brian Ahern
  producer [2.24, 1.27]
• Brian Eno
  additional [20], producer [20], synthesizer [20]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [1.7, 3.19, 2.8-9]
• Carl Perkins
  electric guitar [16], guitar [17]
• Carlene Carter
  performer [24]
• Charlie Bragg
  engineer [26], producer [4.23-24, 1.26]
• Charlie McCoy
  harmonica [12]
• Charlie Williams
  spoken vocals [17]
• Chips Moman
  background vocals [19], engineer [19], guitar [19], producer [19]
• Chuck Bragg
  engineer [26]
• Cyd Mosteller
  background vocals [3-4]
• Dale Sellers
  acoustic guitar [14]
• Danny Jones
  engineer [26]
• Dave LaBonte
  background vocals [5]
• David Cherry
  engineer [19]
• David Ferguson
  assistant [2.23, 4.17]
• Don Carter
  background vocals [3-4]
• Don Davis
  producer [26]
• Don Law
  phonographic copyright [2.14, 1.10], producer [4.4-5, 4.7, 3.9-10, 3.12, 3.15-16, 3.19, 3.22, 1.7-13, 2.8-9, 2.11-18]
• Earl Poole Ball
  piano [27]
• Elvis Costello
  performer [13]
• Farrell Morris
  percussion [23]
• Flood
  electronic instruments [20], producer [20]
• Frank Jones
  phonographic copyright [1.10, 2.14], producer [1.8-13, 4.4-5, 4.7, 2.12, 2.14-18, 3.9-10, 3.12, 3.15-16, 3.22]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [19]
• Gene Lowery Singers
  vocal [6]
• George Evans
  background vocals [5]
• Greg Morrow
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Hargus “Pig” Robbins
  keyboard [14]
• Helen Carter
  background vocals [1.10, 1.20, 2.14]
• Henry Strzelecki
  bass [14]
• Hurshel Wiginton
  background vocals [14]
• Jack Clement
  guitar [2.7, 1.8, 1.10, 1.27], producer [4.17, 1.3-6, 2.5, 2.7, 2.23, 3.3]
• Jack Hale
  French horn [27], trumpet [27]
• Jack Routh
  guitar [1.27, 4.23], producer [24]
• Jan Howard
  background vocals [16], vocal [27]
• Jerry Hensley
  guitar [1.27, 4.23]
• Jimmy Tittle
  bass [19]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [5-6]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [5-6]
• John Carter Cash
  performer [16], producer [24]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [4.4, 4.23, 2.1-4, 2.6-9, 2.14, 3.1-2, 3.19, 1.1-7, 1.10, 1.15-16, 1.21], arranger [1-2], background vocals [19], guest [9, 18, 20], guitar [2.11, 2.18, 3.3, 3.12, 3.15-16, 1.8, 1.11-12, 1.17, 1.20, 1.27], instrument [7], lead vocals [1.1-6, 1.8, 1.10-12, 1.15, 1.17, 4.20, 2.1-4, 2.11, 2.14, 3.1-2, 3.12], performer [14, 19], producer [1.21, 4.23], vocal [4.4, 4.7, 4.19, 4.23, 2.6-9, 2.18, 1.7, 1.15-16, 1.20-21, 1.27, 3.3, 3.15-16, 3.19]
• Johnny Rodriguez
  background vocals [19], guitar [19]
• June Carter Cash
  additional [8], background vocals [1.10, 2.14], performer [7-8, 23-24], vocal [7, 23]
• Karl Garvin
  trumpet [10]
• Ken Criblez
  assistant [19]
• Kenny Malone
  drums (drum set) [14]
• Kris Kristofferson
  background vocals [19], guitar [19], performer [19], vocal [19]
• Larry Butler
  producer [4.2, 4.6, 1.22]
• Larry Greenhill
  assistant [19]
• Larry McCoy
  piano [23]
• Lee Holt
  background vocals [3-4]
• Louis Nunley
  background vocals [14]
• Luther Perkins
  background vocals [6], electric guitar [1.1-8, 1.10-12, 1.15-16, 2.1-4, 2.6-9, 2.11, 2.14, 2.18, 4.4, 3.1-2, 3.12, 3.15-16, 3.19]
• Mark Morris
  percussion [27]
• Marshall Grant
  background vocals [6], bass [3.12, 3.15-16, 3.19, 4.4, 4.23, 1.7-8, 1.10-12, 1.16-17, 1.21, 2.7-9, 2.11, 2.14, 2.18], bass guitar [20], double bass [3.1-2, 1.1-6, 1.15, 2.1-4, 2.6], electric bass guitar [27]
• Marty Stuart
  mandolin [19], performer [10]
• Marvin Hughes
  piano [19]
• Michael Rhodes
  bass [18]
• Mickey Raphael
  harmonica [19]
• Mike Leech
  bass [19]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [4], background vocals [2.14, 1.10, 1.20], performer [2, 6]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [17]
• Nick Lowe
  producer [22]
• Nita Smith
  background vocals [3-4]
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  performer [22]
• Norman Blake
  guitar [11], resonator guitar [2.14, 1.10-11]
• Paul Davis
  background vocals [19], guitar [19], keyboard [19]
• Pete Bordonali
  electric guitar [14]
• Pete Drake
  steel guitar [14]
• Peter Coleman
  mix [18], recording [18]
• Ray Charles
  performer [14]
• Ray Edenton
  guitar [12]
• Ricky Skaggs
  fiddle [27]
• Robby Turner
  resonator guitar [18], steel guitar [18]
• Rodney Crowell
  performer [18]
• Roger Tucker
  engineer [26]
• Rosanne Cash
  performer [21]
• Rufus Long
  flute [11]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [2.1-2, 2.4, 2.6, 1.1-2, 1.15, 3.1-2]
• Sara Carter
  background vocals [20]
• Steuart Smith
  electric guitar [18]
• Terry McMillan
  harmonica [14], percussion [14]
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [4.4, 2.14, 1.10, 1.16, 1.20], performer [1.8, 1.12, 4.1, 4.3-4], vocal [1.8, 1.11, 1.27, 3.12, 3.15-16]
• The Edge
  background vocals [20], producer [20], synthesizer [20]
• The Statler Brothers
  background vocals [16], vocal [2.18, 3.15-16]
• The Tennessee Three
  performer [20]
• The Tennessee Two
  performer [7]
• The “A” Strings
  strings [14]
• Tommy Cash
  performer [15]
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [4.4, 4.23, 3.12, 3.15-16, 1.8, 1.10-12, 1.16-17, 1.20-21, 1.27, 2.14, 2.18]
• Wally Singleton
  background vocals [5]
• Waylon Jennings
  background vocals [19], guitar [19], performer [12, 17, 19], vocal [19]
• Wayne Jackson
  trumpet [27]
• Willie Nelson
  background vocals [19], guitar [19], performer [19], vocal [19]
• Show all credits (115)

Issues

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  T
  (Combined release view)
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  T
  The Legend

  5x CD
  16 August 2005
• 

  T
  The Legend

  4x CD
  29 August 2005
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  T
  The Legend

  4x CD
  2005