- The Sound of Johnny Cash
Infobox Album | Name = The Sound of Johnny Cash
Type =Album
Artist =Johnny Cash
Released = August 1962
Recorded =April 28 ,1961 -February 12 , 1962
Genre = Country
Length = 25:12
Label = Columbia
Producer = Don Law, Frank Jones
Reviews =Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wvue4j370way link] | Last album = "Hymns from the Heart "
(1962)
This album = "The Sound of Johnny Cash"
(1962)
Next album = "All Aboard the Blue Train "
(1962)"The Sound of Johnny Cash" is the thirteenth album by country singer
Johnny Cash , released in 1962 (see1962 in music ). Among other songs, it contains "In the Jailhouse Now", a Jimmie Rodgers cover which reached No. 8 on the Country charts, and "Delia's Gone", which Cash would re-record years later, on "American Recordings", in 1994. Cash would also go on to record a significantly slower version of "I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now", which was ultimately released in 2006 on "" as the last track on the album.Track listing
#"Lost on the Desert" (Frazier, Mize) – 2:01
#"Accidentally on Purpose" (Edwards, Jones) – 1:56
#"In the Jailhouse Now" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 2:23
#"Mr. Lonesome" (Glaser) – 2:18
#"You Won't Have Far to Go" (Glaser) – 1:50
#"In Them Old Cottonfields Back Home" (Leadbelly ) – 2:34
#"Delia's Gone" (Silbersdorf, Toops) – 2:01
#"I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" (Null) – 2:27
#"You Remembered Me" (Cash) – 2:05
#"I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now" (Herscher, Klein) – 1:51
#"Let Me Down Easy" (Tompall Glaser ,Jim Glaser ) – 1:46
#"Sing It Pretty, Sue" (Cash) – 2:00Personnel
* Johnny Cash - Main Performer, Vocals
*Luther Perkins - Guitar
* Ray Edenton - Guitar
*Don Helms - Steel
*Marshall Grant - Bass
* Buddy Harman - Drums
*Floyd Cramer - PianoCharts
Singles - Billboard (North America)
External links
* [http://maninblack.net Maninblack.net Great Johnny Cash Fansite]
* [http://www.lpdiscography.com/c/Cash/cash_sound.htm LP Discography entry on "The Sound of Johnny Cash"]
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