With His Hot and Blue Guitar

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	October 1957 (1957-10)
Recorded	September 1, 1954 – August 4, 1957
Genre	Country, rockabilly
Length	27:40
Label	Sun
Producer	Sam Phillips
Johnny Cash chronology
Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957) Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous (1958)

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Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar is the debut album of country singer Johnny Cash, released on October 11, 1957. 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) 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.

This was the first LP ever issued on Sam Phillips' Sun Records label.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Bonus tracks 2 Personnel 3 Charts 4 References

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" (Jimmie Davis, Fern Jones) – 2:17
9. "I Walk the Line" (Cash) – 2:46
10. "Wreck of the Old 97" (Trad. (prob. Charles Noell); arr. Cash) – 1:48
11. "Folsom Prison Blues" (Cash) – 2:51
12. "Doin' My Time" (Jimmie Skinner) – 2:40

Bonus tracks

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

Note that on the Varese CD reissue, "Country Boy" is not the original "full band" version from the LP, but rather an acoustic version with just Cash and his guitar which is the demo version.

Personnel

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

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1955	"Cry Cry Cry"	Country Singles	14
1956	"Folsom Prison Blues"	Pop Singles	17
1956	"Folsom Prison Blues"	Country Singles	3
1955	"So Doggone Lonesome"	Country Singles	4
1956	"I Walk the Line"	Country Singles	1
1956	"I Walk the Line"	Pop Singles	17

References

1. ^ With His Hot and Blue Guitar at Allmusic

Johnny Cash Studio albums With His Hot and Blue Guitar Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous The Fabulous Johnny Cash Greatest! Sings Hank Williams Now, There Was a Song! Now Here's Johnny Cash The Sound of Johnny Cash All Aboard the Blue Train Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash I Walk the Line Orange Blossom Special Everybody Loves a Nut Happiness is You Old Golden Throat More of Old Golden Throat Hello, I'm Johnny Cash Man in Black A Thing Called Love Any Old Wind That Blows Ragged Old Flag Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me John R. Cash Look at Them Beans One Piece at a Time The Last Gunfighter Ballad I Would Like to See You Again Gone Girl Silver Rockabilly Blues The Baron The Adventures of Johnny Cash Johnny 99 Rainbow 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: Ain't No Grave Concept albums Songs of Our Soil Ride This Train The Lure of the Grand Canyon Blood, Sweat and Tears Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian Sings the Ballads of the True West From Sea to Shining Sea America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song The Johnny Cash Children's Album The Rambler Gospel albums Hymns by Johnny Cash Hymns from the Heart The Holy Land Sings Precious Memories A Believer Sings the Truth Believe in Him My Mother's Hymn Book Christmas albums The Christmas Spirit The Johnny Cash Family Christmas Classic Christmas Johnny Cash Country Christmas Collaborations Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter Johnny Cash and His Woman The Legend of Jesse James The Survivors Live Highwayman Heroes Class of '55 Highwayman 2 The Road Goes on Forever VH1 Storytellers Live albums At Folsom Prison At San Quentin The Johnny Cash Show På Österåker Strawberry Cake At Madison Square Garden A Concert Behind Prison Walls 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 Heart of Cash The World of Johnny Cash Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Sunday Morning Coming Down International Superstar Five Feet High and Rising Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 The Unissued Johnny Cash Johnny & June Tall Man Encore Biggest Hits The Man in Black 1954–1958 The Man in Black 1959–1962 Come Along and Ride this Train Wanted Man The Man in Black 1963–1969 16 Biggest Hits Love, God and Murder The Essential Johnny Cash Unearthed The Legend The Legend of Johnny Cash 16 Biggest Hits: Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash Personal File The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II Songs "25 Minutes to Go" "A Boy Named Sue" "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" "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 Still Miss Someone" "I Walk the Line" "In My Life" "It Ain't Me Babe" "Jackson" "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" "Tennessee Flat Top Box" "What'd I Say" Family June Carter Cash John Carter Cash Rosanne Cash Carlene Carter Vivian Liberto Tommy Cash Carter Family Related articles Discography Sun Records discography Highwaymen Walk the Line Book:Johnny Cash