The Essential Johnny Cash

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The Essential Johnny Cash
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Compilation album by Johnny Cash
Released February 2002
Recorded May 1955—May 1993
Genre Country and western
Length 1:43:53
Label Legacy/Columbia
Producer(s) Sam Phillips. Jack Clement, Don Law, Frank Jones, Bob Johnston, Johnny Cash, Charlie Bragg, Brian Ahern, Earl Ball, Flood, Brian Eno, The Edge
Professional reviews
Johnny Cash chronology
American III: Solitary Man
2000		 The Essential Johnny Cash
2002		 At Madison Square Garden
2002


The Essential Johnny Cash is a double-compact disc compilation by Johnny Cash, part of Sony Music's "Essential" CD anthology series. It was compiled to commemorate Cash's 70th birthday. It is not to be confused with the three-CD box set of the same name released by Columbia Records in 1992.

The double album concentrates mainly on Cash's first 15 years as a recording artist with Sun Records and Columbia, contains only eight post-1970 selections, and ignores Cash's work with Rick Rubin for American Recordings - as well as predates Cash's final hit single, "Hurt", by ten months.

Amongst the 36 tracks on the compilation are two songs that feature Cash prominently but never appeared on any of his albums: "Girl from the North Country" from Bob Dylan's 1969 album Nashville Skyline, and "The Wanderer" from U2's 1993 album Zooropa.

As a testimony to Cash's wide sphere of influence on country, rock, and other modern musics and his wide fan base, the liner notes feature testimonials and 70th birthday greetings from a wide array of artists - not only from friends and fellow travelers and collaborators like Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Petty, ex-stepson-in-law Nick Lowe, and wife June Carter Cash, but from the likes of Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan of Slipknot, Metallica's Kirk Hammett, and Black Flag's Henry Rollins.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Hey Porter" – 2:13
  2. "Cry, Cry, Cry" – 2:23
  3. "I Walk the Line" – 2:43
  4. "Get Rhythm" – 2:13
  5. "There You Go" – 2:17
  6. "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" (Jack Clement) – 2:11
  7. "Big River" – 2:31
  8. "Guess Things Happen That Way" (Jack Clement) – 1:49
  9. "All Over Again" – 2:12
  10. "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" – 3:02
  11. "Five Feet High and Rising" – 1:46
  12. "The Rebel - Johnny Yuma" (Richard Markowitz/Andrew Fenady) – 1:52
  13. "Tennessee Flat-Top Box" – 2:58
  14. "I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jr.) – 2:34
  15. "Ring of Fire" (June Carter/Merle Kilgore) – 2:35
  16. "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" (Peter LaFarge) – 4:07
  17. "Orange Blossom Special" (E.T. Rouse) – 3:06
  18. "Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)" (traditional, arranged by Johnny Cash) – 3:51

[edit] Disc two

  1. "It Ain't Me, Babe" (Bob Dylan) – 3:03
  2. "The One on the Right is on the Left" (Jack Clement) – 2:47
  3. "Jackson" (Gaby Rodgers/Billy Edd Wheeler) – 2:44
    • Performed with June Carter Cash
  4. "Folsom Prison Blues" (live version) – 2:44
  5. "Daddy Sang Bass" (Carl Perkins) – 2:20
  6. "Girl from the North Country" (Bob Dylan) – 3:42
  7. "A Boy Named Sue" (Shel Silverstein) – 3:46
  8. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin) – 2:59
    • Performed with June Carter Cash
  9. "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (Kris Kristofferson) – 4:09
  10. "Flesh and Blood" – 2:36
  11. "Man in Black" – 2:52
  12. "Ragged Old Flag" – 3:08
  13. "One Piece at a Time" (Wayne Kemp) – 4:01
  14. "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" (Stan Jones) – 3:44
  15. "Song of the Patriot" (Marty Robbins/Shirl Milete) – 3:28
    • Performed with Marty Robbins
  16. "Highwayman" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:03
  17. "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town" (Billy Braddock/Charlie Williams) – 3:23
    • Performed with Waylon Jennings
  18. "The Wanderer" (Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., Adam Clayton) – 4:43
    • Performed by U2 featuring Johnny Cash; from U2's album Zooropa

All songs written by Johnny Cash except where noted.

[edit] Testimonals

The following people provided testimonials and/or 70th birthday greetings for the CD's liner notes:
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
Related articles
Sun Records | Columbia Records | Mercury Records | American Recordings | Legacy Recordings | Lost Highway Records | Sam Phillips | Jack Clement | Rick Rubin | Carl Perkins | Jerry Lee Lewis | The Highwaymen | Waylon Jennings | Kris Kristofferson | Willie Nelson | Folsom Prison | San Quentin State Prison | Outlaw country | Tennessee Three | Shel Silverstein | Walk the Line | Man in Black | Cash: The Autobiography
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