Rockabilly Blues

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Rockabilly Blues
Rockabilly Blues cover
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released October 1980
Recorded December 1979 -
July 1980
Genre Country
Length 32:48
Label Columbia
Producer(s) Earl "Pool" Ball, Jack Clement and Nick Lowe
Professional reviews
Johnny Cash chronology
A Believer Sings the Truth
(1979)
Rockabilly Blues
(1980)
Classic Christmas
(1980)


Rockabilly Blues is an album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1980 (see 1980 in music). It is a collection of songs in the rockabilly style. Highlights include "Cold Lonesome Morning," which had some minor chart success (No. 53 in the country charts), "Without Love," by his son-in-law, Nick Lowe, and a cover of the witty "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over." The first two of the aforementioned songs were the only singles from the album, though "Without Love" hardly enjoyed any chart success, peaking at No. 78. "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over" was re-recorded five years later by Cash and Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, collectively known as The Highwaymen, on their first album entitled Highwayman, though it was, in essence, a duet with Nelson.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Cold Lonesome Morning" (Cash) – 3:21
  2. "Without Love" (Nick Lowe) – 2:26 with Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds
  3. "W-O-M-A-N" (Cash) – 3:21
  4. "The Cowboy Who Started the Fight" (Billy Joe Shaver) – 3:46
  5. "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over" (Steve Goodman/John Prine) – 3:38
  6. "Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)" (Cash) – 3:18
  7. "The Last Time" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:12
  8. "She's a Go-er" (Cash) – 2:28
  9. "It Ain't Nothing New Babe" (Shaver) – 4:02
  10. "One Way Rider" (Rodney Crowell) – 3:16 with June Carter Cash

[edit] Personnel

  • Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar
  • Bob Wootton, Peter Wade, Clifford Parker - Electric Guitar
  • Martin Belmont, Jerry Hensley, Jack Routh Marty Stuart - Guitar
  • Jack Clement - Dobro, Guitar, Producer
  • Dave Kirby - Acoustic Guitar, Guitar
  • Billy Joe Shaver - Guitar, Gut String Guitar
  • Bobby Thompson - Acoustic Guitar, Banjo
  • Dave Edmunds - Guitar, Engineer
  • W.S. Holland, Jerry Carrigan, Larrie London, Kenny Malone, Pete Thomas - Drums
  • Floyd Chance - Upright Bass
  • Earl Ball - Piano, Producer
  • Philip Donnelly, Daniel Sarenana, John Willis - Brass
  • Joseph Allen, Joe Osborne - Electric Bass
  • Nick Lowe - Electric Bass, Producer
  • Irving Kane - Trombone, Leader
  • June Carter Cash - Vocals

[edit] =Additional personnel

  • Curt Allen, Willie Pevear, Gene Eichelberger - Engineers
  • Leonard Kamsler Photography
  • Dave Nives Reissue Producer
  • Suzanne Amon Reissue Design
  • Grant Alden - Liner Notes

[edit] Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1980 "Cold Lonesome Morning" Country Singles 53
1981 "Without Love" Country Singles 78

[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
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