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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 89859
Released: March 19, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Fabulous Johnny Cash Track Listing:
1. Run Softly, Blue River
2. Frankie's Man, Johnny
3. That's All Over
4. The Troubador
5. One More Ride
6. That's Enough
7. I Still Miss Someone
8. Don't Take Your Guns To Town
9. I'd Rather Die Young
10. Pickin' Time
11. Shepherd Of My Heart
12. Suppertime
13. Oh What A Dream take 1
14. Mama's Baby
15. Fool's Hall Of Fame
16. I'll Remember You
17. Cold Shoulder
18. Walkin' The Blues
Editorial Review:
These 18 tracks (12 of them from the original 1959 LP, The Fabulous Johnny Cash, and 6 of them recorded during the same sessions, but previously unreleased in the U.S.) captured Cash during a particularly vital period of his long, illustrious career. Cash first broke through in the mid-`50s with his now-trademark "boom-chicka-boom" rhythms and sonorous, drawling baritone on Memphis's Sun Records; these are the earliest recordings from his nearly three decades on the Columbia label. Demonstrating an energy and down-home diversity that would later become even more fully realized, Cash herein moves deftly from introspective ballads (his original "Run Softly, Blue River") and railroad songs ("One More Ride") to cowboy ballads (his sardonic original, "Don't Take Your Guns to Town") and stoic laments like "I Still Miss Someone." In the process, he refines a vivid musical persona that more or less became synonymous with country music in the 1960s. --Bob Allen
The Fabulous Johnny Cash Reviews:
The Tenth Best Record Released in 1959 
2009-03-24 - Though I like the Sun stuff better than this, this is still a mighty fine record. I don't particularly like the opener, "Run Softly, Blue River", don't like "The Troubadour" either. And I really can't stand "That's enough." I don't know why, but thankfully now I have this record in my iTunes playlist and those songs aren't on it. The rest of the record is just great. There's just something about Johnny Cash. Most singers age and you can hear it in their voices, Johnny's voice stayed the same right up to the end.
Johnny's version of "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" puts you right in the story. "Fools Hall of Fame," is a rocking county number that I've always loved and I know my name is right up there in the Fools Hall of Fame. Of course, "I Still Miss Someone" is one of my favorites, everybody loves that song, how they not? But on this record they saved the best for last. Gotta love "Walkin' the Blues." Gotta love it and I do.
This Record is Number 10 on my list of the Best Thirteen Records of 1959.
Quintessential Johnny Cash
2007-08-12 - This is a great album. It was great 20 years ago when my grandfather first let me listen to it on vinyl and it's still great today especially with the unreleased tracks.
For Serious, Already Established Johnny Cash Fans Only, New Listeners Will Probably Not Be Won Over By This CD 
2006-04-13 - This is a so-so album by Johnny Cash. There are no hit songs, or at least very few, if any, memorable songs, if any did manage to chart in 1959.
The CD is re-mastered and re-issued here, so the CD booklet has many nice, mostly b/w photos, and liner notes. The sound quality is fine. They did a nice job re-issuing this album, and they even rounded up six bonus tracks, which gives the running time a healthy 42 minutes total. The fault lies in the original performances and song choices, which seem old fashioned and less interesting than his previous, groundbreaking debut hits.
I thought that only his Gospel tunes could be accused of being old fashioned, but here, with only a couple of Gospel-ish songs, Johnny's non-religious tunes can be just as old fashioned.
This is Johnny Cash's second studio album. It is his first album for Columbia records, who signed him after Sun Records let him get away. Actually, Sun Records had many hits with Johnny Cash, but only released one studio album while Johnny was with Sun.
This CD is best for serious, established fans who want to trace his career and all his music. New and casual listeners of Johnny Cash will not likely be patient and interested enough to enjoy this, and they will be better suited with a greatest hits CD, for which I would recommend THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH, or 16 BIGGEST HITS.
There are a few enjoyable songs for the serious fan on THE FABULOUS JOHNNY CASH, but most of this album is uninteresting. I must admit that with familiarity and repeated listenings, (and lower expectations), I do let some of these songs grow on me, and I like them more, the more I hear them. But there are many other, better Johnny Cash CDs out there, so this is a CD that is best for the long-time fan who has already been through all of his better CDs and is looking for the most obscure stuff. This album is definitely full of little known, obsure tunes.
Right now, my favorite Johnny Cash studio album is AMERICAN IV: THE MAN COMES AROUND. My favorite live album is JOHNNY CASH AT SAN QUENTIN. My most recommended Johnny Cash Gospel album is GOSPEL GLORY.
I can also highly recommend his spoken word, 16 CD set, JOHNNY CASH READS THE COMPLETE NEW TESTAMENT of the Holy Bible! That is truly fun to listen to for Christian fans of Johnny Cash.
I never got over those blue eyes. 
2005-07-03 - This was Johnny Cash's first album for Columbia Records. Two singles were released from the album, "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" (#1 Country, #32 Pop) and "Frankie's Man, Johnny" (#9 Country, #57 Pop). The album also features the classic "I Still Miss Someone" (which was the b-side of "Don't Take Your Guns to Town", incidentally). Most of the other songs on the album are very good, particularly "One More Ride", "That's Enough" and "Pickin' Time". The CD adds six bonus tracks, five of which are previously unreleased in the U.S. These songs are generally not as good as the ones that were on the original album, although they are not bad by any means. "Walking the Blues" is a great country-blues, and the alternate take of "Oh What a Dream" is a real treat, being the first take of the first song Johnny ever recorded for Columbia. Recommended to fans of Johnny Cash.
A steamroller of a record
2003-04-25 - This, the first Johnny Cash LP on Columbia, was the first to present him as the multi-faceted artist he always was. One of the best things about it is the variety of material, from pop songs, rockabilly/honky tonk, ballad, and gospel as well as the variety of emotion, swaggering, wistful, wary, fervent, heartbroken, you name it.
It starts off in a country-pop vein with the first four tunes, all good but more lightweight feeling. But with song number five, the hopped-up wanderlust anthem One More Ride, the record picks up and doesn't let up until it drops you off sweetly with Suppertime. Without a doubt, That's Enough is the highlight of the record. It wasn't the first gospel number Cash recorded at Columbia, but the euphoria and catharsis of Johnny proclaiming "I've got Jesus, and that's enough" are so palpable you'd think he just saw the light right then and there. It never fails to give me goosebumps. The remaining cuts vary in tempo and style but they never let up on that emotional intensity. A perfectly programed album.
The bonus tracks are all very strong, especially Walking the Blues and Mama's Baby, a great pop number.
If you like any Johnny Cash or heartfelt music of any kind, you should get this CD. It's the real deal.
