The Man in Black: 1959‐’62

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Snow in His Hair
  2:22
• 2
  I Saw a Man
  2:33
• 3
  Lead Me Gently Home
  2:00
• 4
  Are All the Children In
  1:55
• 5
  Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
  1:53
• 6
  I Call Him
  1:47
• 7
  The Old Account
  2:25
• 8
  He’ll Be a Friend
  1:58
• 9
  These Things Shall Pass
  2:16
• 10
  It Could Be You (Instead of Him)
  1:50
• 11
  God Will
  2:20
• 12
  The Great Speckled Bird
  2:10
  3.0 ★
• 13
  Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
  3:56
  3.0 ★
• 14
  He’ll Understand and Say Well Done
  2:27
• 15
  God Has My Fortune Laid Away
  2:49
• 16
  When I’ve Learned
  2:47
• 17
  I Got Shoes
  2:01
• 18
  Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
  2:14
• 19
  If We Never Meet Again
  3:02
• 20
  When I Take My Vacation in Heaven
  2:26
• 21
  When He Reached Down His Hand for Me
  2:04
• 22
  Taller Than Trees
  1:52
• 23
  I Won’t Have to Cross Jordan Alone
  3:00
• 24
  My God Is Real (Yes, God Is Real)
  2:00
• 25
  These Hands
  2:14
• 26
  Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
  3:53
• 27
  (There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley
  2:49
• 28
  A Day in the Grand Canyon
  10:49
• CD 2
• 1
  I’ll Remember You
  1:54
  3.0 ★
• 2
  I Got Stripes
  2:06
• 3
  You Dreamer You
  1:50
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Five Feet High and Rising
  1:47
  3.6 ★
• 5
  The Rebel Johnny Yuma
  1:53
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Lorena
  1:56
• 7
  Second Honeymoon
  1:56
• 8
  The Fable of Willie Brown
  1:55
• 9
  Smiling Bill McCall
  2:07
• 10
  Johnny Yuma Theme
  1:57
• 11
  The Man on the Hill
  2:10
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Hank and Joe and Me
  2:13
  4.0 ★
• 13
  The Caretaker
  2:06
• 14
  Clementine
  2:30
  5.0 ★
• 15
  I Want to Go Home
  1:58
• 16
  Old Apache Squaw
  1:42
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Don’t Step on Mother’s Roses
  2:34
• 18
  My Grandfather’s Clock
  2:44
• 19
  I Couldn’t Keep From Crying
  2:09
• 20
  My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
  2:24
• 21
  I Will Miss You When You Go
  2:02
• 22
  I Feel Better All Over
  2:04
• 23
  Bandana
  2:15
• 24
  Wabash Blues
  2:18
• 25
  Viel Zu Spät
  2:09
• 26
  Wo Ist Zuhause, Mama
  1:51
• 27
  Heartbeat

  Johnny Cash vocal Roy Rivers
  2:16
• 28
  Hello Again

  Johnny Cash vocal Roy Rivers
  2:09
• CD 3
• 1
  Tall Man
  1:55
• 2
  Girl in Saskatoon
  2:16
• 3
  Locomotive Man
  2:50
• 4
  The Losing Kind
  1:59
• 5
  Five Minutes to Live (1)
  2:05
• 6
  Forty Shades of Green (1)
  2:54
• 7
  The Big Battle
  4:05
• 8
  Blues for Two
  2:10
• 9
  Jeri and Nina’s Melody
  2:44
• 10
  Why Do You Punish Me?
  2:19
• 11
  Just One More
  2:14
• 12
  Seasons of My Heart
  2:31
• 13
  Honky Tonk Girl
  2:00
• 14
  I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
  2:40
• 15
  Time Changes Everything
  1:50
• 16
  I’d Just Be Fool Enough
  2:07
• 17
  Transfusion Blues
  2:34
• 18
  Lovin’ Locomotive Man
  2:30
• 19
  Five Minutes to Live (2)
  2:13
• 20
  Mr. Lonesome
  2:18
• 21
  Forty Shades of Green (2)
  2:54
• 22
  Folsom Prison Blues
  2:54
• 23
  I Walk the Line
  2:46
• 24
  Hey Porter
  1:59
• 25
  I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know About Her
  2:28
• 26
  There’s a Mother Always Waiting
  3:01
• 27
  The Losing Kind
  1:50
• CD 4
• 1
  Tennessee Flat Top Box
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Sing It Pretty Sue (1)
  2:00
• 3
  A Little at a Time
  1:57
• 4
  So Do I
  2:12
• 5
  Bonanza
  2:20
• 6
  Shamrock Doesn’t Grow in California
  2:36
• 7
  I’m Free From the Chain Gang Now
  1:51
• 8
  Delia’s Gone (1)
  3:02
• 9
  Lost on the Desert
  2:01
• 10
  I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know About Her
  2:27
• 11
  Accidentally on Purpose
  1:56
  3.8 ★
• 12
  You Remembered Me
  2:05
• 13
  In the Jailhouse Now
  2:23
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Let Me Down Easy
  1:46
• 15
  In Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home
  2:35
• 16
  You Won’t Have Far to Go
  1:50
• 17
  Delia’s Gone (2)
  2:01
• 18
  No One Will Ever Know
  2:25
• 19
  The Danger Zone
  2:11
• 20
  I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight
  2:49
• 21
  Send a Picture of Mother
  2:52
• 22
  Hardin Wouldn’t Run
  3:33
• 23
  Sing It Pretty Sue (2)
  2:01
  3.0 ★
• 24
  Blue Bandana
  1:44
• 25
  So Doggone Lonesome
  2:10
• 26
  Johnny Reb
  2:56
• 27
  Delia’s Gone (3)
  2:20
• 28
  I Walk the Line (take 6, slow)
  2:48
• 29
  I Walk the Line (take 9, fast)
  2:52
• CD 5
• 1
  The Girl in Saskatoon (take 1)
  2:49
• 2
  The Girl in Saskatoon (take 2)
  1:43
• 3
  The Girl in Saskatoon (take 3)
  2:46
• 4
  The Girl in Saskatoon (take 4+5)
  0:28
• 5
  The Girl in Saskatoon (take 6)
  2:42
• 6
  The Girl in Saskatoon (take 7+8)
  2:05
• 7
  The Girl in Saskatoon (take 9‐master)
  2:36
• 8
  An Empty Chair (take 1) (vocal: Roy Cash)
  2:16
• 9
  An Empty Chair (take 2,3+4) (vocal: Roy Cash)
  1:00
• 10
  An Empty Chair (take 5‐master) (vocal: Roy Cash)
  2:16
• 11
  Relief Is Just a Swallow Away (take 1) (vocal: Roy Cash)
  2:11
• 12
  Relief Is Just a Swallow Away (take 2) (vocal: Roy Cash)
  2:05
• 13
  Relief Is Just a Swallow Away (take 3+4) (vocal: Roy Cash)
  0:28
• 14
  Relief Is Just a Swallow Away (take 5) (vocal: Roy Cash)
  2:07
• 15
  Relief Is Just a Swallow Away (take 6‐master) (vocal: Roy Cash)
  1:59
• 16
  Riot in Cell Block #9 (take 1) (vocal: Ray Liberto, Jr.)
  3:21
• 17
  Riot in Cell Block #9 (take 2) (vocal: Ray Liberto, Jr.)
  0:19
• 18
  Riot in Cell Block #9 (take 3) (vocal: Ray Liberto, Jr.)
  2:47
• 19
  It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie (take 1) (vocal: Ray Liberto, Jr.)
  4:13
• 20
  Rocket ’69 (take 1) (vocal: Ray Liberto, Jr.)
  0:58
• 21
  Rocket ’69 (take 2) (vocal: Ray Liberto, Jr.)
  1:57
• 22
  Blueberry Hill (take 1) (vocal: Ray Liberto, Jr.)
  3:32

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Release credits

• Anita Kerr Singers
  vocal [3.2-3, 2.1]
• Bill Pursell
  piano [4.21, 1.13, 1.27]
• Bob Johnson
  five-string banjo [13], lute [26]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [1.5, 1.12, 2.3, 2.10]
• Don Law
  producer [1.5, 1.12-13, 1.27, 3.1-4, 3.20, 3.22-26, 2.1-7, 2.9-10, 4.1, 4.3, 4.7, 4.9, 4.11-16, 4.21, 4.26]
• Floyd Cramer
  piano [2-3, 20, 22-26]
• Frank Jones
  producer [1.13, 1.27, 3.1-3, 3.20, 3.22-26, 2.9, 4.1, 4.3, 4.7, 4.9, 4.11-16, 4.21, 4.26]
• James Carter Wilson
  piano [1]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [5, 12-13, 27], guitar [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.10, 3.2-4, 3.20, 3.22-26, 4.21, 4.26], lead vocals [4], vocal [2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.10, 3.2-4, 3.20, 3.22-26, 4.21, 4.26, 1.5, 1.12-13, 1.27]
• Johnny Western
  guitar [2.1, 3.2-3]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [4.21, 4.26, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.10, 1.5, 1.12-13, 1.27, 3.2-4, 3.20, 3.22-26]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.10, 3.2-4, 3.20, 3.22-26, 4.21, 4.26, 1.5, 1.12-13, 1.27]
• Marvin Hughes
  piano [5, 12]
• Michael Kazak
  drums (drum set) [1]
• Mother Maybelle Carter
  autoharp [1.13, 1.27, 4.21]
• The Carter Family
  background vocals [13, 27], performer [13], vocal [21, 26]
• The Glaser Brothers
  background vocals [9, 11]
• Tompall Glaser
  guitar [20, 22-26]
• W.S. Holland
  drums (drum set) [3.2-4, 3.20, 3.22-26, 4.21, 4.26, 1.13, 1.27]
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Issues

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  The Man in Black: 1959‐’62

  5x CD
  1991