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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 127164
Released: March 19, 2002 |
| Our Price: $15.95 |
| Used Price: $2.90 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Ride This Train Track Listing:
1. Loading Coal
2. Slow Rider
3. Lumberjack
4. Dorraine Of Ponchartrain
5. Going To Memphis
6. When Papa Played The Dobro
7. Boss Jack
8. Old Doc Brown
9. The Fable Of Willie Brown
10. Second Honeymoon
11. The Ballad Of The Harpweaver
12. Smiling Bill McCall
Editorial Review:
This concept album ranks with the most thematically ambitious of Johnny Cash's career, though the title's a little misleading. Instead of a collection of train songs (the sort featured in the Cash catalogue from "Hey Porter" to "Orange Blossom Special"), he alternates the spoken-word narrative of a rail trip that crosses the country (and cuts across centuries) with songs about the characters you might meet along the way. From a Kentucky coal miner ("Loading Coal") to an Oregon logger ("Lumberjack") to a convict on a Mississippi chain gang ("Going to Memphis"), Cash inhabits the various manifestations of what he calls "the heart and muscle of this land." In "Slow Rider" he combines the folk standard "I Ride an Old Paint" with the gunfighter legend of John Wesley Hardin. The reissue of this 1960 release adds four bonus tracks, story songs in a similar spirit but without the narration. --Don McLeese
Ride This Train Reviews:
Ride this train up and down and across a strange, wonderful land. 
2009-10-03 - This is not, as might be supposed, a collection on train songs. It is, as the subtitle of the album says, "a stirring travelogue of America in song and story". Each track starts with a monologue by Johnny Cash (backed by train sounds), where he portrays a different character each time. Then he will sing a song as that character. Some of the characters he plays are a coal miner, a lumberjack, a prisoner, a slave owner and outlaw John Wesley Hardin. This is a very enjoyable album. The CD adds four bonus tracks, which are of average quality.
John R. Cash
2008-10-30 - This album has some great Johnny Cash songs that fit the man, the image and the style. I'd recommend it to any Johnny Cash Fan. I've actually played it for years as a radio announcer back in the 60s and 70s.
If you can find it, get it. 
2008-08-22 - This is one of the hard-to-find actual studio albums of JC, buried among the Greatest Hits collections. It's a real treasure though - but you'll have to get used to the concept of a travelogue. Each song is preceded by a narrated introduction which today would sound corny, but on this album it doesn't. The songs are haunting and beautiful. No hits on this one - which makes it better for hard core fans who've heard Ring of Fire enough already.
Johnny Cash True American
2007-12-30 - This Cash album covers American's struggles thru our early history up to
modern times. The stories in song of people,familys and their struggles
to survive hard times.
If you REALLY like Johnny Cash
2007-06-12 - I was glad to get a copy of this as a present for a friend in Europe who is a serious Johnny Cash fan. My cousin tells me that there is a 4 CD set with the same name. But since i was only expecting one CD i wasn't disappointed!
