With His Hot and Blue Guitar

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Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	Original: 1957 Re-issued: 1969 Re-issued: 2002
Recorded	March 1955 - August 1957
Genre	Country
Length	Original: 27:40 Re-issue: 39:41
Label	Sun
Producer(s)	Sam Phillips
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	Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)	Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous (1958)

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar was the first album by the influential country singer Johnny Cash, released on 10 October 1957 (see 1957 in music). The album contained four of his hit singles: "I Walk the Line," "Cry Cry Cry," "So Doggone Lonesome," and "Folsom Prison Blues." It was re-issued on July 23, 2002 (see 2002 in music) as an expanded edition, under the label Varese Vintage, containing five bonus tracks, three being alternate versions of tracks already present on the original LP.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus tracks 2 Personnel 3 Charts 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Track listing

1. "Rock Island Line" (Lead Belly) – 2:11
2. "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle" (Jimmie Davis, Hank Williams) – 2:25
3. "Country Boy" (Cash) – 1:49
4. "If the Good Lord's Willing" (Jerry Reed) – 1:44
5. "Cry Cry Cry" (Cash) – 2:29
6. "Remember Me (I'm the One Who Loves You)" (Stuart Hamblen) – 2:01
7. "So Doggone Lonesome" (Cash) – 2:39
8. "I Was There When It Happened" (Davis, Fern Jones) – 2:17
9. "I Walk the Line" (Cash) – 2:46
10. "Wreck of the Old '97" (Norman Blake, Cash, Bob Johnson) – 1:48
11. "Folsom Prison Blues" (Cash) – 2:51
12. "Doin' My Time" (Skinner) – 2:40

[edit] Bonus tracks

1. "Hey Porter" (Cash) – 2:14
2. "Get Rhythm" (Cash) – 2:15
3. "I Was There When It Happened" (Davis, Jones) – 2:18
4. "Folsom Prison Blues" (Cash) – 2:34
5. "I Walk the Line" (Cash) – 2:40

[edit] Personnel

• Johnny Cash - Main Performer, Vocals
• Luther Perkins - Electric Guitar
• Marshall Grant - Bass
• Al Casey - Guitar
• Sam Phillips - Producer
• Cary E. Mansfield - Reissue Producer
• Bill Dahl - Liner Notes, Reissue Producer
• Dan Hersch - Digital Remastering
• Bill Pitzonka - Art Direction

[edit] Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1955	"Cry Cry Cry"	Country Singles	14
1956	"Folsom Prison Blues"	Country Singles	4
1955	"So Doggone Lonesome"	Country Singles	4
1956	"I Walk the Line"	Country Singles	1
1956	"I Walk the Line"	Pop Singles	17

[edit] See also

• Johnny Cash Sun discography
• Johnny Cash discography

[edit] External links

• LP Discography entry on Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar

Johnny Cash

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 | Highwayman | Rainbow | Believe in Him | Heroes | Class of '55 | Johnny Cash is Coming to Town | Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series | Water from the Wells of Home | Boom Chicka Boom | Highwayman 2 | The Mystery of Life | American Recordings | The Road Goes on Forever | 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" | "Cat's in the Cradle" | "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