America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song

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America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
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Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released July 1972
Genre Country
Length 32:57
Label Columbia
Producer(s) Larry Butler
Professional reviews
Johnny Cash chronology
A Thing Called Love
(1972)		 America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
(1972)		 The Johnny Cash Family Christmas
(1972)


America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song is a concept album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1972 (see 1972 in music). As its title suggests, it comprises a number of tracks dedicated to the topic of American history, not unlike several of Cash's other Americana albums. The record is a mix of songs and narration, in which Cash attempts to describe elements of the country's past, including famous personalities like Paul Revere or Big Foot. America also includes a re-recording of "Mr. Garfield", a song previously released as a single in 1965 on Sings the Ballads of the True West. Most of the tracks on the album were written by Cash, with some exceptions, including a rendition of the well-known song "The Battle of New Orleans" and a reading of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Opening Dialogue" (Cash) – 0:23
  2. "Paul Revere" (Glenn D. Tubb) – 2:17
  3. "Begin West Movement" (Cash) – 0:26
  4. "The Road to Kaintuck" (Cash) – 1:21
  5. "To the Shining Mountains" (Cash) – 0:48
  6. "The Battle of New Orleans" (Jimmie Driftwood) – 2:21
  7. "Southwestward" (Cash) – 0:37
  8. "Remember the Alamo" (Jane Bowers) – 2:26
  9. "Opening the West" (Cash) – 0:56
  10. "Lorena" (Charles Williams) – 1:50
  11. "The Gettysburg Address" (Abraham Lincoln) – 2:38
  12. "The West" (Cash) – 0:57
  13. "Big Foot" (Cash) – 3:02
  14. "Like a Young Colt" (Cash) – 0:38
  15. "Mr. Garfield" (Ramblin' Jack Elliott) – 3:53
  16. "A Proud Land" (Cash) – 0:24
  17. "The Big Battle" (Cash) – 3:05
  18. "On the Wheels and Wings" (Cash) – 0:30
  19. "Come Take a Trip in My Airship" (Cash) – 1:05
  20. "Reaching for the Stars" (Cash) – 0:42
  21. "These Are My People" (Cash) – 2:38

[edit] Personnel

  • Johnny Cash - Vocals
  • Norman Blake - Acoustic Guitar/Banjo
  • Carl Perkins, Bob Wootton, Red Lane, Ray Edenton - Guitar
  • W.S. Holland - Drums
  • Marshall Grant - Bass
  • Chuck Cochran - Piano
  • Charlie McCoy - Harmonica
  • Farrell Morris - Percussion

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1972 Country Albums 3
1972 Pop Albums 176

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Johnny Cash
Discography
Studio albums : With His Hot and Blue Guitar | Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous | The Fabulous Johnny Cash | Greatest! | Hymns by Johnny Cash | Songs of Our Soil | Sings Hank Williams | Ride This Train | Now, There Was a Song! | Now Here's Johnny Cash | The Lure of the Grand Canyon | Hymns from the Heart | The Sound of Johnny Cash | All Aboard the Blue Train | Blood, Sweat and Tears | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | The Christmas Spirit | I Walk the Line | Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian | Orange Blossom Special | Sings the Ballads of the True West | Everybody Loves a Nut | Happiness is You | Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter | From Sea to Shining Sea | Old Golden Throat | Heart of Cash | The Holy Land | More of Old Golden Throat | Hello, I'm Johnny Cash | Man in Black | A Thing Called Love | America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song | The Johnny Cash Family Christmas | Any Old Wind That Blows | Johnny Cash and His Woman | Ragged Old Flag | Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me | The Johnny Cash Children's Album | Sings Precious Memories | John R. Cash | Look at Them Beans | One Piece at a Time | The Last Gunfighter Ballad | The Rambler | I Would Like to See You Again | Gone Girl | Silver | A Believer Sings the Truth | Rockabilly Blues | Classic Christmas | The Baron | The Adventures of Johnny Cash | Johnny 99 | Rainbow | Believe in Him | Heroes | Johnny Cash is Coming to Town | Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series | Water from the Wells of Home | Boom Chicka Boom | The Mystery of Life | American Recordings | Unchained | American III: Solitary Man | American IV: The Man Comes Around | American V: A Hundred Highways | American VI
Live albums: At Folsom Prison | At San Quentin | The Johnny Cash Show | På Österåker | Strawberry Cake | The Survivors Live | VH1 Storytellers | At Madison Square Garden
Soundtrack albums: I Walk the Line | Little Fauss and Big Halsy | The Gospel Road | Return to the Promised Land
Compilation albums: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 | The World of Johnny Cash | Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | International Superstar | Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 | The Unissued Johnny Cash | Johnny & June | Tall Man | Encore | Love, God and Murder | The Essential Johnny Cash| Unearthed | The Legend | The Legend of Johnny Cash | Personal File| The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II
Songs
"25 Minutes to Go" | "A Boy Named Sue" | "Cocaine Blues" | "Cry Cry Cry" | "Dark as a Dungeon" | "Engine 143" | "Folsom Prison Blues" | "Get Rhythm" | "Goodnight, Irene" | "Green Green Grass of Home" | "Greystone Chapel" | "Hey Porter" | "Home of the Blues" | "Hurt" | "I Walk the Line" | "In My Life" | "It Ain't Me Babe" | "Jackson" | "Like the 309" | "The Man Comes Around" | "One Piece at a Time" | "The One on the Right is on the Left" | "Remember the Alamo" | "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" | "Ring of Fire" | "What'd I Say"
Family
June Carter Cash | John Carter Cash | Rosanne Cash | Carlene Carter | Vivian Liberto | Tommy Cash | Carter Family
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