Johnny Cash

INCLUDES 2 BONUS TRACKS

This quintessential reissue contains his thrilling debut album for the Sun Record Company, With His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957). This masterpiece has been remastered and packaged in this very special collector’s edition, which also includes 2 bonus tracks from the same period. All of Cash’s famous tunes are here, including “Folsom Prison Blues”, “I Walk The Line,” and “Cry, Cry, Cry.”

This album could be the poster child for why music doesn’t have to be complicated to be effective. There’s a disarming, straightforward, transparent authenticity to it that immediately wins you over. Combined with the production, it seems to transport the listener to another time and place – right into Sun studios with Cash and his musicians in 1957.

PERSONNEL:

JOHNNY CASH, vocals & guitar, plus:

Luther Perkins (electric guitar), Jack Clement (guitar), Marshall Grant (bass).

Recorded at Sun Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, as follows: May 1955 (Side one, track 5),
July 30, 1955 (Side one, tracks 6 & 7, and Side two, track 5 & 7),
April 1956 (Side two, track 3),
July 1957 (Side one, track 1, and Side two, track 4),
August 4, 1957 (Side one, tracks 2-4, and Side two, tracks 1, 2 & 6).

SIDE 1

01. THE ROCK ISLAND LINE
02. I HEARD THAT LONESOME WHISTLE
03. COUNTRY BOY
04. IF THE GOOD LORD’S WILLING
05. CRY, CRY, CRY
06. REMEMBER ME
07. HEY PORTER (*)

SIDE 2

01. SO DOGGONE LONESOME
02. I WAS THERE WHEN IT HAPPENED
03. I WALK THE LINE
04. THE WRECK OF OLD ‘97
05. FOLSOM PRISON BLUES
06. DOIN’ MY TIME
07. GET RHYTHM (*)

(*) BONUS TRACKS: From the same sessions, but not included on the original LP.