A Believer Sings the Truth

Infobox Album
Name = A Believer Sings the Truth
Type = Double album
Artist = Johnny Cash


Released = 1979/1982
Recorded = January-May 1979
Genre = Gospel
Length = 55:39
Label = Cachet / Columbia
Producer = Johnny Cash
Last album = "Silver"
(1979)
This album = "A Believer Sings the Truth"
(1979)
Next album = "Rockabilly Blues"
(1980)

"A Believer Sings the Truth" is a gospel double album by American country singer Johnny Cash. Though eventually released by Columbia records, Cash had trouble convincing the label to release the album, and initially released it on his own on the Cachet label and as a radio special with added narration. Columbia was doubtful that a double album of gospel songs would be commercially successful.

Track listing

ide one

#"Wings in the Morning" – 2:43
#"Gospel Boogie (A Wonderful Time up There)" – 2:40
#"Over the Next Hill" – 2:36
#*With Anita Carter
#"He's Alive" – 4:16
#*With June Carter Cash
#"I've Got Jesus in My Soul" – 2:42

ide two

#"When He Comes" – 3:33
#*With Roseanne Cash
#"I Was There When It Happened" – 2:16
#*With Marshall Grant
#"I'm a Newborn Man" (John Carter Cash) – 1:42
#"There Stranger Things Happening Every Day" – 3:34
#"Children Go Where I Send Thee" – 2:39

ide three

#"(I'm Just an) Old Chunk of Coal" (Billy Joe Shaver) – 2:14
#"Lay Me Down in Dixie" (with Cindy Cash) – 2:01
#"Don't Take Everybody for Your Friend" – 2:25
#"You'll Get Yours, I'll Get Mine" – 2:23
#*With Rodney Crowell
#"Oh Come Angel Band" – 2:45

ide four

#"This Train is Bound for Glory" – 3:31
#*With June Carter Cash
#"I'm Gonna Try to Be That Way" – 2:50
#*With Jan Howard
#"What on Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)" – 2:10
#"That's Enough" – 2:45
#"The Greatest Cowboy of Them All" – 3:54
#*With Jack Routh

I Believe

In 1984, "I Believe" was released, featuring ten songs from "A Believer Sings the Truth" and four outtakes from the same sessions. Like its parent album, "I Believe" has not been released on CD.

ide one

#"That's Enough"
#"Don't Take Anyone to be Your Friend"
#"Jesus in My Soul"
#"Newborn Man"
#"I'll Have a New Life"
#"This Train"
#"I Was There When it Happened"

ide two

#"Lay Me Down in Dixie"
#"Strange Things Happen Every Day"
#"You'll Get Yours and I'll Get Mine"
#"Didn't it Rain"
#"He Touched Me"
#"Way Worn Traveler"
#"I'm Gonna Try to be That Way"