The records that established Johnny Cash as one of the greatest American singer songwriters are his first for Sun and Columbia Records, the best part of which is included here. From Southern gospel and country music, all the way through to blues and rockabilly, he was the first rock giant to draw mainly from the European-American tradition - unlike his contemporaries and friends Elvis Presley or Jerry Lee Lewis who drew mainly from the African-American repertoire. Bruno Blum comments on the course of this prolific, born storyteller, a musical incarnation of the Wild West myth.

Tracklist:

You're My Baby
Hey Porter
Cry, Cry, Cry
Port of Lonely Hearts
Folsom Prison Blues
So Doggone Lonesome
Luther Played the Boogie
I Walk the Line
Get Rhythm'
Train of Love
There You Go
Don't Make Me Go
Next in Line
Home of the Blues
Give My Love to Rose
Rock Island Line
Wreck of the Old '97
Doin' My Time
Country Boy
If the Good Lord's Willing
Was There When It Happened
Remember Me (I'm the One That Loves You)
Big River
Ballad of a Teenage Queen
Guess Things Happen That Way
Come in Stranger
Katy Too
Thanks a Lot
It's Just About Time
Just Thought You'd Like to Know
I Forgot to Remember to Forget
Suppertime
It Was Jesus (Who Was It)
Troubadour
That's All Over
Frankie's Man, Johnny
One More Ride
Pickin' Time
Don't Take Your Guns to Town
I'd Rather Die Young
Sheperd of My Heart
Snow in His Hair
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
I Call Him
Old Account
He'll Be a Friend
It Could Be You (Instead of Him)
You Dreamer You
I Got Stripes
Five Feet High and Rising
Hank and Joe and Me
Caretaker
Clementine
Want to Go Home
Don't Step on Mother's Roses
Going to Memphis
When Papa Played the Dobro
Boss Jack
Loading Coal
Smiling Bill Mccall
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
I Will Miss You When You Go
I Feel Better All Over
Why Do You Punish Me
Just One More
Honky Tonk Girl
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Time Changes Everything
I'd Just Be Fool Enough (To Fall)
Transfusion Blues
God Must Have My Fortune Laid Away
Got Shoes

UPC: 3561302579429
Label: Fremeaux Heritage
Release Date: 10.1.21
Format: CD

Indispensable Johnny Cash / Various (3pk) - Indispensable Johnny Cash / Various (3pk) (CD)