With His Hot and Blue Guitar

Infobox Album |
Name = Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar
Type = Album
Artist = Johnny Cash


Released = Original: October 1957
Re-issued: 1969
Re-issued: 2002
Recorded = May 1955 - August 4, 1957
Genre = Country
Length = Original: 27:40
Re-issue: 39:41
Label = Sun
Producer = Sam Phillips
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2srb281r055a link]
Last album =
This album = "Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar"
(1957)
Next album = "Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous"
(1958)

"Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar" is the debut album of country singer Johnny Cash, released on 11 October 1957 (see 1957 in music). The album contained four of his hit singles: "I Walk the Line," "Cry Cry Cry," "So Doggone Lonesome," and "Folsom Prison Blues." It was re-issued on July 23, 2002 (see 2002 in music) as an expanded edition, under the label Varese Vintage, containing five bonus tracks, three being alternate versions of tracks already present on the original LP.

Track listing

#"Rock Island Line" (Lead Belly) – 2:11
#"(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle" (Jimmie Davis, Hank Williams) – 2:25
#"Country Boy" (Cash) – 1:49
#"If the Good Lord's Willing" (Jerry Reed) – 1:44
#"Cry Cry Cry" (Cash) – 2:29
#"Remember Me (I'm the One Who Loves You)" (Stuart Hamblen) – 2:01
#"So Doggone Lonesome" (Cash) – 2:39
#"I Was There When It Happened" (Jimmie Davis, Fern Jones) – 2:17
#"I Walk the Line" (Cash) – 2:46
#"Wreck of the Old '97" (Norman Blake, Cash, Bob Johnson) – 1:48
#"Folsom Prison Blues" (Cash) – 2:51
#"Doin' My Time" (Skinner) – 2:40

Bonus tracks

#"Hey Porter" (Cash) – 2:14
#"Get Rhythm" (Cash) – 2:15
#"I Was There When It Happened" (Davis, Jones) – 2:18
#"Folsom Prison Blues" (Cash) – 2:34
#"I Walk the Line" (Cash) – 2:40

Note that on the Varese CD reissue, "Country Boy" is not the original "full band" version from the LP, but rather an acoustic version with just Cash and his guitar.

Personnel

*Johnny Cash - Main Performer, Vocals
*Luther Perkins - Electric Guitar
*Marshall Grant - Bass
*Al Casey - Guitar
*Sam Phillips - Producer
*Cary E. Mansfield - Reissue Producer
*Bill Dahl - Liner Notes, Reissue Producer
*Dan Hersch - Digital Remastering
*Bill Pitzonka - Art Direction

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

External links

* [http://www.lpdiscography.com/c/Cash/cash_withhishot.htm LP Discography entry on "Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar"]