Johnny Cash Legend (4-CD Box Set)

Rolling Stone: 4.5 out of 5 stars - "...even without his astonishing final chapter, this is a feast of Cash."
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item number:  359J2
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CD Details

  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Released: August 16, 2005
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Sony

Description by OLDIES.com:

Johnny Cash: The Legend is easily the most far-reaching collection ever assembled in celebration of the pathfinding work of the "Man in Black." Singer and songwriter, sinner and Christian, John R. Cash, son of a sharecropper from the dirt-poor, cotton-farming town of Kingsland, Ark., battled his demons on stages from Folsom Prison to Carnegie Hall. Wielding an acoustic guitar and his patented "boom-chicka-boom" Tennessee two-beat, Cash essayed a multifarious repertoire that drew from nearly every page of the American Roots Music Songbook. From sacred to strung out, mountain ballads to rockabilly boogie, tales of the range, the road, the rails, and home-sweet-home, and love songs from the public domain to Dylan, and beyond, Cash would not be pigeonholed.

This four-CD set, covering the years 1955-2002, commemorates the Golden Anniversary of Cash's recording career; his debut-on-disc was for the fabled Sun label, one of seven record companies from whose archives this anthology draws in order to paint a many-sided musical portrait of Johnny Cash: The Legend. The majority of the 104 songs herein (28 of them written or co-written by Cash) were made for Columbia, for which he was a best-selling artist from 1958 to 1986; seven selections are previously unreleased.

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - No. 985, p.82
4.5 out of 5 stars - "...even without his astonishing final chapter, this is a feast of Cash."
Spin - p.107
"[T]his four-disc box has all the great old stuff, plus a sprinkling from his Rick Rubin-produced renaissance."
Uncut - p.132
5 stars out of 5 - "Prolific, restless, ambitious and contradictory, Cash became a genre unto himself, swerving from rockabilly to gospel, drug-addled outlawry to staunch moralism, homespun folk to grand Nashville productions."

Tracks on Disc 1:

  • 1.I Walk The Line
  • 2.There You Go
  • 3.Home Of The Blues
  • 4.Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
  • 5.Guess Things Happen That Way
  • 6.The Ways Of A Woman In Love
  • 7.Don't Take Your Guns To Town
  • 8.Ring Of Fire
  • 9.The Matador
  • 10.Understand Your Man
  • 11.The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
  • 12.Orange Blossom Special
  • 13.The One On The Right Is On The Left
  • 14.Rosanna's Going Wild
  • 15.Folsom Prison Blues
  • 16.Daddy Sang Bass
  • 17.A Boy Named Sue
  • 18.What Is Truth
  • 19.Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
  • 20.Flesh And Blood
  • 21.Man In Black
  • 22.A Thing Called Love
  • 23.Kate
  • 24.Oney
  • 25.Any Old Wind That Blows
  • 26.One Piece At A Time
  • 27.Ghost Riders In The Sky

Tracks on Disc 2:

  • 1.Hey Porter
  • 2.Cry, Cry, Cry
  • 3.Luther Played The Boogie
  • 4.Get Rhythm
  • 5.Give My Love To Rose
  • 6.I Was There When It Happened
  • 7.Big River
  • 8.I Still Miss Someone
  • 9.Pickin' Time
  • 10.The Man On The Hill
  • 11.Five Feet High And Rising
  • 12.Tennessee Flat-Top Box
  • 13.I Got Stripes
  • 14.Troublesome Waters
  • 15.The Long Black Veil
  • 16.Dark As A Dungeon
  • 17.The Wall
  • 18.25 Minutes To Go
  • 19.Cocaine Blues
  • 20.Doin' My Time (Previously Unreleased)
  • 21.I Will Rock And Roll With You
  • 22.Without Love
  • 23.The Big Light
  • 24.Highway Patrolman
  • 25.I'm Never Gonna Roam Again (Previously Unreleased)
  • 26.When I'm Gray (Previously Unreleased)
  • 27.Forever Young

Tracks on Disc 3:

  • 1.The Wreck Of The Old 97
  • 2.Rock Island Line
  • 3.Goodnight Irene
  • 4.Goodbye, Little Darlin'
  • 5.Born To Lose
  • 6.Walking The Blues
  • 7.Frankie's Man, Johnny
  • 8.Delia's Gone
  • 9.In The Jailhouse Now
  • 10.Waiting For A Train
  • 11.Casey Jones
  • 12.The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer
  • 13.I've Been Working On The Railroad (Previously Unreleased)
  • 14.Sweet Betsy From Pike
  • 15.The Streets Of Laredo
  • 16.Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
  • 17.Down In The Valey (Previously Unreleased)
  • 18.Wabash Cannonball
  • 19.The Great Speckled Bird
  • 20.Wildwood Flower
  • 21.In Them Old Cottonfields Back Home
  • 22.Pick A Bale O' Cotton
  • 23.Old Shep
  • 24.I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
  • 25.I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  • 26.Time Changes Everything

Tracks on Disc 4:

  • 1.Keep On The Sunny Side (With The Carter Family)
  • 2.Diamonds In The Rough (With The Carter Family)
  • 3.(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)(With The Carter Family)
  • 4.Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)(With The Carter Family)
  • 5.Another Man Done Gone (With Anita Carter)
  • 6.Pick The Wildwood Flower (With Mother Maybelle Carter)
  • 7.Jackson (With June Carter)
  • 8.If I Were A Carpenter (With June Carter Cash)
  • 9.Girl From The North Country (With Bob Dylan)
  • 10.One More Ride (With Marty Stuart)
  • 11.You Can't Beat Jesus Christ (With Billy Joe Shave)(Previously Unreleased)
  • 12.There Ain't No Good Chain Gang (With Waylon Jennings)
  • 13.We Ought To Be Ashamed (With Elvis Costello)
  • 14.Crazy Old Soldier (With Ray Charles)
  • 15.Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine (With Tommy Cash)
  • 16.Who's Gene Autry (With John Carter Cash)
  • 17.The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (With Waylon Jennings)
  • 18.I Walk The Line Revisited (With Rodney Crowell)
  • 19.Highwayman (With Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings)
  • 20.The Wanderer (U2 Starring Johnny Cash)
  • 21.September When It COmes (With Roseanne Cash)
  • 22.Tears In The Holston River (With The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
  • 23.Far Side Banks Of Jordan (With June Carter Cash)
  • 24.It Takes One To Know Me (With june Carter Cash, guest vocals by Carlene Carter and John Carter Cash)(Previously Unreleased)

Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 126,000
  • UPC: 827969280225
  • Shipping Weight: 0.94/lbs (approx)
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