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List Price: $13.98 | | Label: Varese Sarabande
Salesrank: 74086
Released: July 23, 2002 |
| Our Price: $9.99 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar Track Listing:
1. Rock Island Line
2. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
3. Country Boy
4. If The Good Lord's Willing
5. Cry! Cry! Cry!
6. Remember Me (I'm The one Who Loves You)
7. So Doggone Lonesome
8. I Was There When It Happened
9. I Walk The Line
10. The Wreck Of The Old '97
11. Folsom Prison Blues
12. Doin' My Time
13. Hey, Porter!
14. Get Rhythm
15. I Was There When It Happened
16. Folsom Prison Blues
17. I Walk The Line
Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar Reviews:
The best Cash album available! 
2006-11-19 - I agree with all the other reviewers of this album -it's terrific. And the clarity of sound makes it feel like it was just recorded. This was Cash at his best and most pure - edgy but clear and strong. And the arrangements don't compete with his voice, as they do a number of years later. The opening "Rock Island Line" is the finest arrangement of this great song that you'll find, and has you bouncing out of your chair with its vibrant energy. If you liked the recent "Walk the Line" movie, you'll like this CD, for this is the sound Joaquin Phoenix was attempting to capture. This is a winner and I'd give it 10 stars if I could!
I fooled you! I fooled you!
2006-03-18 - This was Johnny Cash's first album. It was also the only album he released while he was still with Sun Records. (Sun Records did throw together several Johnny Cash albums after he left the label.) Most of the album was recorded in August of 1957. They also threw in four of his older hits, from 1955 and '56. It is an excellent album. Many people will remember his classic hits "Cry! Cry! Cry!", "So Doggone Lonesome", "I Walk the Line" and "Folsom Prison Blues". But there are also other great songs like "Rock Island Line", "Country Boy", "I Was There When It Happened" and "The Wreck of the Old '97". The CD adds five bonus tracks, which are b-sides of two of the songs on the album, and alternate takes of three songs from the album. The most interesting alternate take is "Folsom Prison Blues", which is sung in a much higher key than the regular version. It just sounds so wrong, hearing Cash trying to sing in a tenor voice. But other than that one misstep (which is still fascinating to hear), the CD is great. Johnny Cash fans will love this CD.
SUN RECORDS FIRST 33 1/3 LP
2005-08-29 - Interestingly enough, this is the first fulllength LP ever issued by Sun Records. And even more interesting, it totally goes against the grain of the kind of music that "made" Sun Records. With rockabilly stars Elvis, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis, rockabilly was sun Records "bread and butter". But this CD is truly timeless. Johny's most inspired work by far. The Man In Black truly made a name for himslef based solely on the miusic on this CD alone. May God Rest His Soul.
If you buy only one country CD this year, make it this one..
2003-04-18 - -
Take it from me, fearless music lover, this is the best Johnny Cash CD you can buy. A fine, fine addition to any collection whether your tastes lean towards Steve Earle or more towards the Meat Puppets.
This CD (this very one) is doubtless what inspires songwriters when they list Johnny Cash as one of their influences. It's old but not dated. It's been heard before yet still hits you where it counts.
...Is that a good-enough testimonial? I think so.
BEWARE!
2002-11-10 - I agree with RedTunicTroll's review - I've waited a long time to see this great album re-issued on CD (hence the five star rating). I would add that the remastering is excellent. However, I am very sorry to say that Varese (the re-issue label) has substituted an alternate demo take of "Country Boy" instead of the full band version that appears on the original album. The version of "Country Boy" on this CD has just Cash with his guitar. It's a nice version of the song, but the one on the original album has Perkins on guitar and Grant on bass. I know this for certain because I have an original copy of this album from the late 1950s - it's a very beat-up copy, but it plays well enough for me to say without a doubt that Varese made a mistake!
