Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection
The Complete Columbia Album Collection is a box set by country singer Johnny Cash, released in 2012 (see 2012 in music) on Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings.
The set consists of 63 CDs, the majority of which are reissues of 59 albums released by Cash during his 1958–1986 tenure with Columbia. Each CD is packaged in a replica of the original LP cover, with any albums originally issued as two-LP set condensed onto one disc with the exception of The Gospel Road which remains in a two-CD configuration. Bonus material includes a two-CD set titled The Singles, Plus, compiling non-album tracks and duets taken from other albums; a Carter Family album on which Cash provided guest vocals; the two albums Cash recorded for Columbia as a member of the supergroup The Highwaymen; and an extended edition of the Sun Records album With His Hot and Blue Guitar with additional tracks from the Sun era (including the complete contents of his second Sun album, Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous). Hot and Blue Guitar is the only album to be presented in an extended edition; all other albums are featured with their original contents, without augmentation. As such this is not a complete survey of everything Cash recorded for Columbia; for example, additional performances from the At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin live shows, included on separate reissues of the two albums, are not included. Also omitted is the 1975 album Destination Victoria Station which had featured new performances of previously released recordings, the 1980 gospel album A Believer Sings the Truth, as well as most of the tracks issued on Columbia's Bootleg series of 2011–2012.[1][2] Out Among the Stars, a complete album recorded by Cash in the early 1980s but not released at that time, is also omitted as it would not be released officially until 2014.
Many of the albums featured in the set make their CD debut in the collection. According to country historian Rich Kienzle's liner notes (part of a 200-page book included in the set), one album Koncert V Praze (In Prague–Live) received its first North American release in the set.[3]
Album list
- The Fabulous Johnny Cash
- Hymns by Johnny Cash
- Songs of Our Soil
- Now, There Was a Song!
- Ride This Train
- Hymns from the Heart
- The Sound of Johnny Cash
- Blood, Sweat and Tears
- Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash
- The Christmas Spirit
- Keep on the Sunny Side – The Carter Family with special guest Johnny Cash
- 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
- Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison
- The Holy Land
- Johnny Cash at San Quentin
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
- The Johnny Cash Show
- I Walk the Line (soundtrack)
- Little Fauss and Big Halsy (soundtrack)
- 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
- The Gospel Road (disc 1)
- The Gospel Road (disc 2)
- Johnny Cash and His Woman
- På Österåker
- 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
- Strawberry Cake
- One Piece at a Time
- The Last Gunfighter Ballad
- The Rambler
- I Would Like to See You Again
- Gone Girl
- Silver
- Rockabilly Blues
- Classic Christmas
- The Baron
- The Survivors Live – Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins
- The Adventures of Johnny Cash
- Johnny 99
- Koncert V Praze (In Prague–Live)
- Rainbow
- Highwayman – Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson
- Heroes – Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings
- Highwayman 2 – Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson
- At Madison Square Garden
- Note: Tracks 1–12 are the original album line-up; Tracks 13–28 are exclusive to this reissue.
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1. | "All Over Again" | Single A-side | |
2. | "You Dreamer You" | "Frankie's Man Johnny" B-side | |
3. | "I Got Stripes" | Single A-side | |
4. | "I'll Remember You" | "Little Drummer Boy" B-side | |
5. | "Lorena" | "The Rebel – Johnny Yuma" EP | |
6. | "Smiling Bill McCall" | "Seasons of My Heart" B-side | |
7. | "Second Honeymoon" | "Honky Tonk Girl" B-side | |
8. | "Girl in Saskatoon" | Single A-side | |
9. | "Locomotive Man" | "Girl in Saskatoon" B-side | |
10. | "Tall Man" | "Tennessee Flat-Top Box" B-side | |
11. | "A Little At A Time" | "In the Jailhouse Now" B-side | |
12. | "Pick A Bale O' Cotton" | "Bonanza" B-side | |
13. | "Send A Picture Of Mother" | "Busted" B-side | |
14. | "The Matador" | Single A-side | |
15. | "Dark As A Dungeon" | "Understand Your Man" B-side | |
16. | "Hammers and Nails" (with The Statler Brothers) | Single A-side | |
17. | "Time And Time Again" | "It Ain't Me Babe" B-side | |
18. | "The Sons of Katie Elder" | Single A-side | |
19. | "A Certain Kinda Hurtin'" | "The Sons of Katie Elder" B-side | |
20. | "Cotton Pickin' Hands" | "The One On The Right Is On The Left" B-side | |
21. | "Bottom Of A Mountain" | "Boa Constrictor" B-side | |
22. | "You Beat All I Ever Saw" | Single A-side | |
23. | "Put The Sugar To Bed" | "You Beat All I Ever Saw" B-side | |
24. | "The Wind Changes" | Single A-side | |
25. | "Red Velvet" | "The Wind Changes" B-side | |
26. | "Rosanna's Going Wild" | Single A-side | |
27. | "Roll Call" | "Rosanna's Going Wild" B-side | |
28. | "The Folk Singer" | "Folsom Prison Blues" B-side | |
29. | "Girl from the North Country" (with Bob Dylan) | Nashville Skyline | |
30. | "What Is Truth" | Single A-side | |
31. | "Little Bit Of Yesterday" | "Man in Black" B-side | |
32. | "A Song To Mama" (with The Carter Family) | Travelin' Minstrel Band | |
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1. | "No Need to Worry" (with June Carter Cash) | Single A-side | |
2. | "I'll Be Loving You" (with June Carter Cash) | "No Need to Worry" B-side | |
3. | "A Front Row Seat to Hear Ole Johnny Sing" (with Shel Silverstein) | Single A-side | |
4. | "The World Needs A Melody" (with The Carter Family) | Travelin' Minstrel Band | |
5. | "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (with June Carter Cash) | "The Loving Gift" B-side | |
6. | "Praise the Lord and Pass the Soup" (with The Carter Family and The Oak Ridge Boys) | Single A-side | |
7. | "The Ballad Of Barbara" (with The Carter Family) | "Praise the Lord and Pass the Soup" B-side | |
8. | "Pick the Wildwood Flower" (with Maybelle Carter) | Single A-side | |
9. | "Diamonds In The Rough" (with Maybelle Carter) | "Pick the Wildwood Flower" B-side | |
10. | "Song to Woody" (with Earl Scruggs) | Anniversary Special Vol. 1 | |
11. | "Hey Porter" (with Earl Scruggs) | Anniversary Special Vol. 1 | |
12. | "I Still Miss Someone" (with Earl Scruggs) | Anniversary Special Vol. 2 | |
13. | "My Ship Will Sail" (with Earl Scruggs) | Anniversary Special Vol. 2 | |
14. | "It's All Over" | Single A-side | |
15. | "Old Time Feeling" (with June Carter Cash) | Single A-side | |
16. | "Song of the Patriot" (with Marty Robbins) | Single A-side | |
17. | "I Will Dance With You" | "The Baron" B-side | |
18. | "The General Lee" | The Dukes of Hazzard TV episode | |
19. | "Crazy Old Soldier" (with Ray Charles) | Friendship | |
20. | "The Chicken in Black" | Single A-side | |
21. | "Battle Of Nashville" | "The Chicken in Black" B-side | |
22. | "They Killed Him" | Single A-side | |
23. | "The Three Bells" | "They Killed Him" B-side | |
24. | "The Human Condition" (with Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson) | "The Highwayman" B-side | |
References
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- ↑ The four-volume Bootleg series, released under Columbia-Legacy in 2011–2012, consists of four sets of rare and mostly previously unreleased Cash recordings: Vol. 1 features home recordings and demos (which had previously been issued as Private File in 2006); Vol. 2 features Sun demos, a transcribed episode of the Johnny Cash Show radio program from 1955, rare singles (not all of which are included in The Singles, Plus) and unissued recordings; Vol. 3 compiles live recordings dating from the 1950s to 1979; Vol. 4 compiles Gospel recordings, including the contents of two albums recorded during Cash's Columbia tenure but initially released by other labels, and a complete third album that was never released.
- ↑ Rich Kienzle, writing in Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection liner notes, 2012, p. 29
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