Personal File

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Personal File
Compilation album by Johnny Cash
Released	May 23, 2006
Recorded	July 11, 1973 – December 1982
Genre	Country
Length	2:18:05
Label	Legacy/Columbia
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Being There link
Johnny Cash chronology
The Legend of Johnny Cash (2005)	Personal File (2006)	American V: A Hundred Highways (2006)

Personal File is an album by the late American music icon Johnny Cash. The two album set was released on May 23, 2006 on the Legacy label. Personal File contains 49 unreleased tracks on 2 CDs recorded between 1973 and 1982. Recovered from a vault of material housed at the House of Cash studios, Personal File includes "Tin Pan Alley hits, traditional folk and gospel tunes, new originals and favorite covers" [1] – by Carter Family, Louvin Brothers, Johnny Horton, John Prine, Rodney Crowell, and Carlene Carter. The album was compiled and produced by Gregg Geller with liner notes by Greil Marcus.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc one 1.2 Disc two 2 Personnel 2.1 Additional personnel 3 See also 4 Reviews 5 External links

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

1. "The Letter Edged in Black" (H. Navada) – 2:39
2. "There's a Mother Always Waiting at Home" (J. Thornton) – 4:21
3. "The Engineer's Dying Child" (H. Neil/G. Davis) – 2:07
4. "My Mother Was a Lady" (E. Marks) – 3:36
5. "The Winding Stream" (A.P. Carter) – 2:37
6. "Far Away Places" (A. Kramer/J. Whitney) – 2:23
7. "Galway Bay" (Dr. A. Colahan) – 1:45
8. "When I Stop Dreaming" (C. Louvin/I. Louvin) – 3:11
9. "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" (Ben Jonson/Traditional) – 3:32
10. "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" (T.P. Westendorf) – 2:28
11. "Missouri Waltz" (J.R. Shannon/F.K. Logan-Eppel) – 2:00
12. "Louisiana Man" (D. Kershaw/B. Deaton) – 3:28
13. "Paradise" (J. Prine) – 3:03
14. "I Don't Believe You Wanted to Leave" (J. Tubb) – 2:56
15. "Jim, I Wore a Tie Today" (C. Walker) – 2:47
16. "Saginaw, Michigan" (B. Anderson/D. Wayne) – 2:29
17. "When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)" (J. Horton/T. Franks) – 2:16
18. "Girl in Saskatoon" (J. Horton) – 2:17
19. "The Cremation of Sam McGee" (A poem by Robert W. Service) – 5:33
20. "Tiger Whitehead" (Cash/N. Winston) – 4:44
21. "It's All Over" (Cash) – 2:49
22. "A Fast Song" (Cash) – 2:32
23. "Virgie" (Cash) – 2:57
24. "I Wanted So" (Cash) – 2:41
25. "It Takes One to Know Me" (C. Carter) – 3:14

[edit] Disc two

1. "Seal It in My Heart and Mind" (Cash) – 1:51
2. "Wildwood in the Pines" (R. Crowell) – 2:41
3. "Who at My Door Is Standing" (M.B.C. Slade/A.B. Everett) – 2:31
4. "Have Thine Own Way Lord" (A. Pollard/G. Stebbins) – 3:43
5. "Lights of Magdala" (L. Murray) – 2:26
6. "If Jesus Ever Loved a Woman" (Unknown) – 2:39
7. "The Lily of the Valley" (C.W. Fry/W.S. Hays) – 1:45
8. "Have a Drink of Water" (Unknown) – 3:36
9. "The Way Worn Traveler" (A.P. Carter) – 2:03
10. "Look Unto the East" (Cash) – 2:12
11. "Matthew 24 (Is Knocking at the Door)" (Cash/June Carter Cash) – 1:57
12. "The House Is Falling Down" (Unknown) – 2:51
13. "One of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down and Talk to Paul" (Cash) – 3:20
14. "What on Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)" (Cash) – 2:44
15. "My Children Walk in the Truth" (Cash) – 2:50
16. "No Earthly Good" (Cash) – 1:51
17. "Sanctified" (Cash) – 2:33
18. "Lord, Lord, Lord" (Unknown) – 2:20
19. "What Is Man" (Cash) – 2:24
20. "Over the Next Hill (We'll Be Home)" (Cash) – 2:55
21. "A Half a Mile a Day" (Cash) – 4:25
22. "Farther Along" (Traditional) – 2:57
23. "Life's Railway to Heaven" (M.E. Abbey/C.D. Tillman) – 2:14
24. "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" (S.F. Bennett/J.P. Webster) – 2:50

[edit] Personnel

• Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar, Producer

[edit] Additional personnel

• Vic Anesini – Mastering
• Charlie Bragg – Engineer
• John Carter Cash – Executive Producer
• Gregg Geller – Producer, Compilation
• John Jackson – Project Director
• Greil Marcus – Liner Notes
• Jim Marshall – Photography, Cover Photo
• Randall Martin – Art Direction, Design
• Rosa Menkes – Producer
• Lou Robin – Executive Producer

[edit] See also

• Johnny Cash Discography

[edit] Reviews

• "Johnny Cash Treasure Chest on the Way" - CMT

• "Johnny Cash's Vault Opens" - Rolling Stone

• "Johnny Cash Gets Personal" - Spin

[edit] External links

• Johnny Cash's Official Website
• Record Label

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