The Rough Guide to Johnny Cash: Birth of a Legend

Tracklist

• 1
  I Walk the Line
  2:46
  4.2 ★
• 2
  Frankies Man, Johnny
  2:18
• 3
  Folsom Prison Blues
  2:50
  4.4 ★
• 4
  Home of the Blues
  2:40
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Pickin Time
  2:02
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Ballad of a Teenage Queen
  2:12
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Hey Porter
  2:13
  3.5 ★
• 8
  Dont Take Your Guns to Town
  3:02
• 9
  The Wreck of Old '97
  1:51
  3.6 ★
• 10
  Suppertime
  2:47
• 11
  I Still Miss Someone
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Guess Things Happen That Way
  1:51
  3.8 ★
• 13
  Country Boy
  1:53
  3.5 ★
• 14
  Rock Island Line
  2:11
  3.8 ★
• 15
  Train of Love
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 16
  There You Go
  2:18
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Luther Played the Boogie
  2:04
  4.5 ★

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Release credits

• Asa Wilkerson
  background vocals [4, 6]
• Bill Abbott
  background vocals [4, 6]
• Bill Busby
  background vocals [12]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [5, 11]
• Cyd Mosteller
  background vocals [4, 6]
• Dave LaBonte
  background vocals [12]
• Don Carter
  background vocals [4, 6]
• Don Law
  producer [2, 5, 10-11]
• George Evans
  background vocals [12]
• Jack Clement
  producer [4, 6, 12]
• Jimmy Van Eaton
  drums (drum set) [12]
• Jimmy Wilson
  piano [12]
• Johnny Cash
  acoustic guitar [1-7, 9-17], arranger [9, 14], lead vocals [1, 3-4, 6-7, 9, 12-17], vocal [2-3, 5, 10-11]
• Lee Holt
  background vocals [4, 6]
• Luther Perkins
  electric guitar [1-7, 9-17]
• Marshall Grant
  bass [2, 5, 10-11], double bass [1, 3-4, 6-7, 9, 12-17]
• Marvin Hughes
  piano [2, 10]
• Morris Palmer
  drums (drum set) [2, 10]
• Nita Smith
  background vocals [4, 6]
• Sam Phillips
  producer [1, 3, 7, 9, 13-16]
• Wally Singleton
  background vocals [12]
• Show all credits (21)

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  The Rough Guide to Johnny Cash: Birth of a Legend

  CD
  26 January 2018
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  The Rough Guide to Johnny Cash: Birth of a Legend

  12" Vinyl
  20 April 2018