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List Price: $249.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 147762
Released: August 16, 2005 |
| Our Price: $123.45 |
| Used Price: $102.79 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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The Legend (Hardcover book and CD edition) Track Listing:
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. Ways of a Woman in Love
7. Don't Take Your Guns to Town
8. Ring of Fire
9. Matador
10. Understand Your Man
11. Ballad of Ira Hayes
12. Orange Blossom Special
13. One on the Right Is on the Left
14. Rosanna's Going Wild
15. Folsom Prison Blues
16. Daddy Sang Bass
17. Boy Named Sue
18. What Is Truth
19. Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
20. Flesh and Blood
21. Man in Black
22. Thing Called Love
23. Kate
24. Oney [Single Version]
25. Any Old Wind That Blows
26. One Piece at a Time
27. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
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. Man on the Hill
11. Five Feet High and Rising
12. Tennessee Flat-Top Box
13. I Got Stripes
14. Troublesome Waters
15. Long Black Veil
16. Dark as a Dungeon
17. Wall
18. 25 Minutes to Go
19. Cocaine Blues
20. Doin' My Time [#]
21. I Will Rock and Roll With You
22. Without Love
23. Big Light
24. Highway Patrolman
25. I'm Never Gonna Roam Again [#]
26. When I'm Gray [#]
27. Forever Young
Disc 3:
1. 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 [Alternate Take]
9. In the Jailhouse Now
10. Waiting for a Train
11. Casey Jones
12. Legend of John Henry's Hammer
13. I've Been Working on the Railroad [#][Demo Version]
14. Sweet Betsy from Pike
15. Streets of Laredo
16. Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
17. Down in the Valley [#][Demo Version]
18. Wabash Cannonball
19. Great Speckle Bird
20. Wildwood Flower
21. Cotton Fields
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
Disc 4:
1. Keep on the Sunny Side - Carter Family, Johnny Cash
2. Diamonds in the Rough - Mother Maybelle Carter, Johnny Cash
3. (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley - Carter Family, Johnny Cash
4. Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) - Carter Family, Johnny Cash
5. Another Man Done Gone - Anita Carter, Johnny Cash
6. Pick the Wildwood Flower - Mother Maybelle Carter, Johnny Cash
7. Jackson - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
8. If I Were a Carpenter - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
9. Girl from the North Country - Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan
10. One More Ride - Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart
11. You Can't Beat Jesus Christ [#] - Johnny Cash, Billy Joe Shaver
12. There Ain't No Good Chain Gang - Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings
13. We Oughta Be Ashamed [#] - Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello
14. Crazy Old Soldier - Johnny Cash, Ray Charles
15. Silver Haired Daddy of Mine - Johnny Cash, Tommy Cash
16. Who's Gene Autry?
17. Night Hank Williams Came to Town - Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings
18. I Walk the Line (Revisited) - Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell
19. Highwayman - Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson
20. Wanderer - Johnny Cash, U2,
21. September When It Comes - Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash
22. Tears in the Holston River - Johnny Cash, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
23. Far Side Banks of Jordan - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
24. It Takes One to Know Me [#] - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
Disc 5:
1. Kwem Announcements and Advertisements
2. Johnny Cash Show Intro and Theme
3. Wide Open Road
4. Home Equipment Company Advertisement
5. One More Ride
6. Home Equipment Company Advertisement/Luther Perkins Intro
7. Luther's Boogie
8. Belshazzar Intro
9. Belshazzar
10. Closing Comments and Theme
11. Overton Park Shell "Country Music Jamboree" Advertisement by ...
Editorial Review:
In addition to the 104 tracks on the 4 cd package, the deluxe edition of The legend contains a 128 page hard cover coffee table book that contains hundreds of rare and unseen photographs. Also features an expanded essay by Patrick Carr, coauthor of Cash: The Autobiography. There's a special introductions by Kris Kristofferson, Marty Stuart, Marshall Grant, George Jones and manager Lou Robin. A bonus CD titled Johnny Cash: On The Air, is a rare recording of Johnny's very first time on the radio. The bonus DVD includes selections from Johnny Cash: The First 25 Years - the 1980 CBS TV special. A specially commissioned 12" x 16" lithograph by Marc Burckhardt - one of Johnny's favorite artists, is also included. Columbia. 2005.
Description of The Legend (Hardcover book and CD edition):
There are several Cash boxes available, but The Legend--spanning the years 1955-2002 but concentrating on his long tenure at Columbia and, to a lesser degree, his beginnings at Sun--probably belongs at the top of the list. Cash's greatest strengths are dramatized on these four, thematically programmed discs: Win, Place and Show: The Hits; Old Favorites and New; The Great American Songbook (mostly traditional songs); and Family and Friends (collaborations). For starters, consider the staggering depth and breadth of his repertoire (perhaps matched only by those of Bob Dylan and Ray Charles), embracing ancient folk tunes ("Streets of Laredo"), teen pop ("Ballad of a Teenage Queen"), mature contemporary rock ("Highway Patrolman"), gospel ("Were You There When They Crucified My Lord"), topical fare ("Ballad of Ira Hayes"), country standards ("Time Changes Everything"), novelties ("One Piece at a Time"), and more. Then there's the way his! spare, spacious sound opens up to take in horns ("Ring of Fire"), strings ("Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"), anything. The Legend includes seven previously unissued sides, most prominently "It Takes One to Know Me," a stirring salute to his wife June. --John Morthland
NOTE: This is a deluxe limited edition. In addition to the four discs mentioned above, it also includes a fifth disc, Johnny Cash on the Air, featuring a 1955 recording of Cash's first-ever radio apperance. Also included is a DVD, Johnny Cash: The First 25 Years, which contains the complete 1980 CBS TV special, and a lithograph portrait of Cash by Marc Burkhardt. The entire package is housed in a 12" x 16" hardback.
The Legend (Hardcover book and CD edition) Reviews:
great music but discs 5 and 6 should have been better 
2009-04-18 - this box set contains great music and the lithograph is extremely cool. the packaging is sweet along with a huge book. my only complaint is that musically it doesn't offer much more than the original 4 disc version. the radio show disc is nice but i would have liked it to include more music from other shows or more crucial studio tracks. a few songs from his days on the american label would have been nice too. the dvd is from the johnny cash "first 25 years" tv special and is a little cheesy by cash standards. a career spanning dvd would have been better than this cheesy tv special with many whited haired old ladies in the audience. it doesn't do johnny cash any justice to not have a better quality dvd than that.
The man in black 
2008-01-07 - This collection of music combined with the book and wonderful pictures makes this is an awesome buy. I'm proud to own this. It's truly a joy.
I would definately recommend this to any Man In Black fan.
I just loved it..
2006-02-04 - For the serious Cash fan, yes. I had been looking for this for awhile. I was impressed with the book, photos and words. Very nice touch with the painting of JR. In fact I am having it framed.
The pictures and book are well bound, and done on nice paper. The content of those photos and writing to go along with them brought that famous JR tear I get in my eye when I hear his songs and stories. The disk set I have enjoyed. I really hope some of the "lost" music comes out from Columbia.
Definitely for the serious collector, but worth the price in my opinion.
Limited Edition-Needs more Cash-Dylan
2006-01-07 - This is a limited edition collector's set which partly justifies the hefty price tag.
The radio broadcast is pretty Gol-Darn cool. It's Cash's show all the way. Not only does he sing live, he's also the announcer and the commercial pitchman. It's a hoot! On the broadcast, he even plugs his upcoming concert at the Overton Park Shell with Elvis! Very cool!
I wouldn't have bought this for myself, I'll have to admit. But someone gave it to me for Christmas and I'm so glad I got it! What a great gift. I love Discs 3 and 4 the most. Those are the tracks I'm least familiar with.
One complaint. What is "Girl from the North Country" doing here? Since this a rare collector's set, why not put one or more of the unreleased Dylan-Cash collobrations on this? Virtually EVERYONE already has "Girl" in their collection because just about everyone in the country owns a copy of Dylan's "Nashville Skyline".
Cash and Dylan recorded about 18 tracks together and Cash DOMINATES the proceedings all the way. These tracks are great, believe me. Cash fans would love all of them. I don't care because I already own these tracks thanks to Ebay. But why not give Cash collectors a taste of these tracks on the "Family and Friends" disc? Dylan was one of Johnny Cash's best friends and their collaboration was fruitful. It's too bad only one of these tracks has ever seen the light of day.
Amazing!
2005-11-28 - This is an absolutely fabulous collection. The steep pricing it definitely deterring, however if you subscribe to Yahoo! Music Unlimited you can get the whole thing plus approximately 1,000,000 other songs for $6.99 month. Happy Listening. :)
