Johnny Cash “The Fabulous Johnny Cash”

sfilzen — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:27:00 +0000

Johnny Cash “The Fabulous Johnny Cash” 1958. Today’s spin in honor of Johnny Cash, born on this date, February 26th, 1932 (d. 2003). I pilfered Cash’s second LP release from the kiddo’s collection (one he didn’t take to college with him) since I can’t find our Cash catalogue (it’s somewhere but not filed with the other “C’s” and I’m too busy/lazy to look). The Fabulous Johnny Cash was Cash’s first LP on the Columbia label after leaving Sun Records; it went to #19 on the best-selling LP chart in ’58. Country album releases were not specifically tracked by Billboard in ’58 but it probably would have hit #1 if they did. Both singles did chart: “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” hit #1 on the country chart and #32 on the pop charts; “Frankie’s Man, Johnny” went to #9 (country) and #57 (pop). Our copy has that second single listed as “Frankie and Johnny” on the back cover: it’s a traditional American murder ballad with a murky inspirational past. It either refers to the real murder of Allen Britt by his lover Frankie Baker in 1899 or to the murder of Charles Silver by his wife Frances “Frankie” Silver; and a couple of turn-of-the-century songwriters have credit for the “original” song/melody. The song has been redone and repurposed at least 256 times according to Wiki, the most successful by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley (1966). My top track on this country classic is the rockabilly-bent “One More Ride.”

Joe and me at the Cash Museum, Nashville 2022

at the Johnny Cash museum, Nashville

On Memorial Day weekend in 2022 we spent several days in Nashville and visited the Johnny Cash museum. I didn’t take too many photos (it was packed and folks were getting crabby – zoom in on kiddo’s face LOL) but it was a great visit to learn more about the Man in Black.

Kiddo and Joe in front of the Johnny Cash museum, 2022

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Johnny Cash “A Night To Remember”

sfilzen — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 15:36:01 +0000

Johnny Cash “A Night To Remember” 2020. Third Man Records, Vault Package, clear vinyl. Recorded live May 5th, 1973 at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles. The concert was part of a series, “A Week to Remember,” spearheaded by Clive Davis (who introduces Cash at the start of the concert), highlighting Columbia Records artists. The week also included performances by Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen and Earth, Wind and Fire. The Vault package also includes a DVD of the concert (which I haven’t watched yet). The concert is simply amazing. Classic Cash originals like “Big River,” “I Walk the Line,” “A Boy Named Sue” (written by Shel Silverstein but mostly associated with Cash) and “Folsom Prison Blues” but also Cash’s versions of other Americana greats like “The City of New Orleans,” “If I Had a Hammer” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” Cash’s wife June Carter Cash joins Johnny on several songs, as does rockabilly great Carl Perkins (on “That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine,” “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” and “Daddy Sang Bass.” Like all Third Man releases, the quality of this release is impeccable. Top quality vinyl, a glossy and durable gatefold sleeve and bonus inserts (the DVD plus a 7″ split single of Cash covers: The Lumineers doing “Pretty Pictures in My Mind” and Ruston Kelly’s version of “Dark and Bloody Ground.” According to the Johnny Cash website, these are “two brand new songs from Johnny Cash: Forever Words project, a multi-year project by John Carter Cash, who has combed the Johnny Cash archive for unreleased poems, prose and lyrics.”

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Johnny Cash “The Fabulous Johnny Cash”

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