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JOHNNY CASH

THE GREATEST! + 4 BONUS TRACKS (LP) (LTD)
Label PAN AM RECORDS
Catalog 9152291
Format LP
Discs 1
Category JAZZ/BLUES/COUNTRY
Street Date 2017-06-14
Description
LIMITED EDITION CLASSIC LPs.
NEWLY REMASTERED
HIGH-DEFINITION PREMIUM VINYL PRESSING FOR SUPER FIDELITY.
180 gram VINYL-AUDIOPHILE PRESSING. DIRECT METAL MASTERING.
PLUS 4 BONUS TRACKS

Presented here is Johnny Cash’s fourth album Greatest! which was released on Sun Records on January 12 1959. It was Cash’s third work on the label which he had left the previous year to join Columbia Records. By the time the album was released Cash had already recorded The Fabulous Johnny Cash his first album with Columbia. This overlap would continue until 1964 with Sun releasing additional albums and singles of previously unreleased material in parallel with Cash’s Columbia releases. Greatest! contains a collection of B-sides and unreleased tunes Cash had left behind when he parted ways with Sun to sign with Columbia in 1958. The tracks were recorded between July 1955 and July 1958 and six out of the twelve songs became singles with “Get Rhythm” topping the Country charts. There are a handful of gems to be found here in addition to the aforementioned tune: a fine cover of Charlie Feathers’ “I Forgot to Remember to Forget” a pair of solid Hank Williams interpretations “You Win Again” and “Hey Good Lookin’” and his tribute to the singular talents of guitarist Luther Perkins “Luther’s Boogie.” While Sam Phillips and his staff polished a few of these tunes with overdubs after the fact they still sound leaner and more intense than Cash’s early Columbia sides and while Greatest! is not considered the best album from his Sun period there’s still some great music here from one of the most powerful voices in the country genre. In addition to the original LP this newly remastered reissue also includes 4 bonus tracks from the same period.
tracklisting
Side One:
1. GOODBYE LITTLE DARLIN’
2. I JUST THOUGHT YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW
3. YOU TELL ME
4. JUST ABOUT TIME
5. I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET
6. KATY TOO
7. I WALK THE LINE*
8. FOLSOM PRISON BLUES*
Side Two:
1. THANKS A LOT
2. LUTHER’S BOOGIE
3. YOU WIN AGAIN
4. HEY GOOD LOOKIN’
5. I COULD NEVER BE ASHAMED OF YOU
6. GET RHYTHM
7. BLUE TRAIN*
8. DOWN THE STREET TO 301*


JOHNNY CASH, vocals & guitar, plus:
The Tennessee Two: Luther Perkins (guitar) & Marshall Grant (bass); James Van Eaton (drums), Jimmy Wilson, Charlie Rich (piano), The Gene Lowery Singers & The Confederates (backing vocals), among others. Produced by Sam Phillips. Recorded at Sun Studio, Memphis, Tennessee, between 1955 & 1958.
*BONUS TRACKS: From the same sessions, but not included on the original LP.
 

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