Massive Johnny Cash boxset on the way!

The Fanzine Store is run in association with amazon.co.uk so the price at our store is what amazon are charging!

Peter

The Fanzine Store is run in association with amazon.co.uk so the price at our store is what amazon are charging!

Peter

Amazon charged me £147.59, but let's not quibble over 11p
Damn site cheaper than MyPlay anyway!

A bargain

It is good to see that amazon (and the Fanzine Store) have the best price around. Not bad for a 63-CD set, less than £2.50 a CD.

Peter

A bargain

It is good to see that amazon (and the Fanzine Store) have the best price around. Not bad for a 63-CD set, less than £2.50 a CD.

Peter

Well the running time of some discs will no doubt be rather short, but as you say, a bargain at that price.

A bargain

It is good to see that amazon (and the Fanzine Store) have the best price around. Not bad for a 63-CD set, less than £2.50 a CD.

Peter

Well the running time of some discs will no doubt be rather short, but as you say, a bargain at that price.

We still don't know this. The set purports to be the complete masters, not just the complete albums. The non-album sides will fill up more than the 2CD compilation of singles etc that act as a kind of appendix, so my guess is that most albums will have bonus tracks as well, but we shall have to wait for the tracklisting for confirmation.

The albums will not contain any bonus tracks. The 2-CD set will include many of the non-album tracks, guest appearances etc.

Just waiting on my review copy

Peter
editor: Johnny Cash-The Man in Black
www.johnnycashfanzine.com

The albums will not contain any bonus tracks. The 2-CD set will include many of the non-album tracks, guest appearances etc.

Just waiting on my review copy

Peter
editor: Johnny Cash-The Man in Black
http://www.johnnycashfanzine.com

Thanks Peter

The albums will not contain any bonus tracks. The 2-CD set will include many of the non-album tracks, guest appearances etc.

Just waiting on my review copy

Peter
editor: Johnny Cash-The Man in Black
http://www.johnnycashfanzine.com

I thought the albums would have the mono and stereo mixes and some alternate takes.
If not, the set could have been 20 discs less.

The whole point of the set is to present all the Columbia albums in their original sleeves and with their original contents. Hence the title, The Complete Columbia Album Collection. Regarding mono/stereo, the first nineteen albums are being made available in mono for the first time on CD.

Peter
editor: Johnny Cash-The Man in Black
www.johnnycashfanzine.com

The whole point of the set is to present all the Columbia albums in their original sleeves and with their original contents. Hence the title, The Complete Columbia Album Collection. Regarding mono/stereo, the first nineteen albums are being made available in mono for the first time on CD.

Peter
editor: Johnny Cash-The Man in Black
http://www.johnnycashfanzine.com

How is this set being anticipated in the Johnny Cash community? Are fans happy with the release as it is, or would something along the lines of the Elvis Complete Masters have been preferable?
Personally I like the idea of the albums complete with original artwork for this set, but wouldn't have wanted the Elvis Complete Masters to have gone that route.

In general most Cash fans I know are looking forward to this release. Obviously there is the odd moan about why this or that wasn't included but that is bound to happen. Personally I am looking forward to the set and like the idea of each album being presented in a replica sleeve with just the original tracks. That is how I remember them when I bought the vinyl copies. The Bear Family sets are great but there is something nice about playing the albums as originally released without bonus tracks etc.

Out of interest I have attached the press release I put together for the fanzine.

Peter

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Thanks for that Peter. You're never going to please everyone whatever is released but this looks like coming as close as possible.

Agree with you both. Gotta find out when this beauty arrives by the end of October.

Gotta admit, I didn't like the dry vocal on "The Big Battle" on the Bear box, I preferred the Columbia version (for one example).

A few weeks back I bought a (pretty worn) copy of the "I Would Like To See You Again" / "Lately" single and was surprised what a great, dynamic, punchy sound this thirty-five year old 45rpm had!

That album (I Would Like To See You Again), like so many from the last decade of the tenure at Columbia is really very good. Those last ten years never produced music that was going to change the world, but it is still highly enjoyable in the main. I don't care much for The Last Gunfighter Ballad LP, but I do very much like Johnny 99, Rockabilly Blues, The Baron, Gone Girl, Adventures of Johnny Cash, Heroes and Rainbow. They are uneven albums, and often suffer from an almost saccharine sentimental track or two, but even so I like them very much. Gone Girl has two must have tracks - the cover of No Expectations and the beautiful Song for the Life. The cover of The Gambler isn't bad either, and that, along with tracks such as The Baron and Highway Patrolman, showed that Cash might have been effectively treading water in his career at this point but never lost his ability to tell a good story. Here Comes That Rainbow Again on Rainbow shows this to great effect. It might be a slight tale, and highly sentimental, but there is no doubt that Cash believes every word, and his sincerity shines through.

Thanks a lot for the info, Peter. Gotta admit among the ones you listed are some albums I never heard before (unlike Elvis I just can't listen to every single Johnny Cash song). Mostly simply because I was unable to locate a copy of them. I LOVE his cover of "No Expectations", even though it reminds me of an unpleasant time in my life. I remember flying back from Memphis in 2002, having bought the "I Would Like To See You Again" album and listened to it for the first time on my portable CD player. When "Hurt So Bad" came up, I immediately fell in love with it and it still remains one of my favorite Cash tracks ever. A few years back my cousin and me taped our own (informal) recording of "Abner Brown". The reason why I bought this album was the song "That's The Way It Is".
Despite the bad mastering (allegedIy mastered by Steve Hoffman!) I really love this record. Can't wait to hear the new remaster.
Among other tracks I know and really dig is, for example, "Joshua Gone Barbados". And yes, I also love his cover of "Highway Patrolman".

Tracklisting:

Disc 1
1Run Softly, Blue River
2Frankie's Man, Johnny
3That's All Over
4The Troubadour
5One More Ride
6That's Enough
7I Still Miss Someone
8Don't Take Your Guns To Town
9I'd Rather Die Young
10Pickin' Time
11Shepherd Of My Heart
12Suppertime

Disc 2
1It Was Jesus
2I Saw A Man
3Are All The Children In
4The Old Account
5Lead Me Gently Home
6Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
7Snow In His Hair
8Lead Me Father
9I Call Him
10These Things Shall Pass
11He'll Be A Friend
12God Will

Disc 3
1Drink To Me
2Five Feet High And Rising
3The Man On The Hill
4Hank And Joe And Me
5Clementine
6The Great Speckle Bird
7I Want To Go Home
8The Caretaker
9Old Apache Squaw
10Don't Step On Mother's Roses
11My Grandfather's Clock
12It Could Be You (Instead Of Him)

Disc 4
1Seasons of My Heart
2I Feel Better All Over
3I Couldn't Keep From Crying
4Time Changes Everything
5My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You
6I'd Just Be Fool Enough (To Fall)
7Transfusion Blues
8Why Do You Punish Me (For Loving You)
9I Will Miss You When You Go
10I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
11Just One More
12Honky-Tonk Girl

Disc 5
1Loading Coal
2Slow Rider
3Lumberjack
4Dorraine Of Ponchartrain
5Going To Memphis
6When Papa Played The Dobro
7Boss Jack
8Old Doc Brown

Disc 6
1He'll Understand And Say Well Done
2God Must Have My Fortune Laid Away
3When I've Learned
4I Got Shoes
5Let The Lower Lights Be Burning
6If We Never Meet Again
7When I Take My Vacation In Heaven
8When He Reached Down His Hand For Me
9Taller Than Trees
10I Won't Have To Cross Jordan Alone
11My God Is Real
12These Hands

Disc 7
1Lost On The Desert
2Accidentally On Purpose
3In The Jailhouse
4Mr. Lonesome
5You Won't Have Far To Go
6Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)
7Delia's Gone
8I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
9You Remembered Me
10I'm Free From The Chain Gang Now
11Let Me Down Easy
12Sing It Pretty, Sue

Disc 8
1The Legend Of John Henry's Hammer
2Tell Him I'm Gone
3Another Man Done Gone
4Busted
5Casey Jones
6Nine Pound Hammer
7Chain Gang
8Waiting For A Train
9Roughneck

Disc 9
1Ring Of Fire
2I'd Still Be There
3What Do I Care
4I Still Miss Someone
5Forty Shades Of Green
6Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
7The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
8Bonanza!
9The Big Battle
10Remember The Alamo
11Tennessee Flat-Top Box
12(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)

Disc 10
1The Christmas Spirit
2I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
3Blue Christmas
4The Gifts They Gave
5Here Was A Man
6Christmas As I Knew It
7Silent Night
8The Little Drummer Boy
9Ringing The Bells For Jim
10We Are The Shepherds
11Who Kept The Sheep
12The Ballad Of The Harp Weaver

Disc 11
1Keep On The Sunny Side
2The Banks Of The Ohio
3My Clinch Mountain Home
4Lonesome Valley
5Worried Man Blues
6Will The Circle Be Unbroken
7The Wabash Cannonball
8Broken-Hearted Lover
9Brown Eyes
10I'm Working On A Building
11Gathering Flowers From The Hillside
12When The Roses Bloom Again

Disc 12
1I Walk The Line
2Bad News
3Folsom Prison Blues
4Give My Love To Rose
5Hey Porter
6I Still Miss Someone
7Understand Your Man
8Wreck Of The Old 97
9Still In Town
10Big River
11Goodbye, Little Darlin', Goodbye
12Troublesome Waters

Disc 13
1As Long As The Grass Shall Grow
2Apache Tears
3Custer
4The Talking Leaves
5The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
6Drums
7White Girl
8The Vanishing Race

Disc 14
1Orange Blossom Special
2The Long Black Veil
3It Ain't Me Babe
4The Wall
5Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
6You Wild Colorado
7Mama, You Been On My Mind
8When It's Springtime In Alaska (It's Forty Below)
9All Of God's Children Ain't Free
10Danny Boy
11Wildwood Flower
12Amen

Disc 15
1Hiawatha's Vision
2The Road To Kaintuck
3The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part I
4Narration
5The Ballad Of Boot Hill
6I Ride An Old Paint
7Narration
8Hardin Wouldn't Run
9Narration
10Mister Garfield
11The Streets Of Laredo
12Narration
13Johnny Reb
14A Letter From Home
15Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
16Mean As Hell
17Sam Hall
1825 Minutes To Go
19The Blizzard
20Narration
21Sweet Betsy From Pike
22Green Grow The Lilacs
23Narration
24Stampede
25The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part II
26Reflections

Disc 16
1Everybody Loves A Nut
2The One On The Right Is On The Left
3Cup Of Coffee
4The Bug That Tried To Crawl Around The World
5The Singing Star's Queen
6Austin Prison
7Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
8Take Me Home
9Please Don't Play Red River Valley
10Boa Constrictor
11Joe Bean

Disc 17
1Happiness Is You
2Guess Things Happen That Way
3Ancient History
4You Comb Her Hair
5She Came From The Mountains
6For Lovin' Me
7No One Will Ever Know
8Is This My Destiny
9A Wound Time Can't Erase
10Happy To Be With You
11Wabash Cannonball

Disc 18
1Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man
2Shantytown
3It Ain't Me Babe
4Fast Boat To Sydney
5Pack Up Your Sorrows
6I Got A Woman (with June Carter)
7Jackson
8Oh, What A Good Thing We Had
9You'll Be All Right
10No, No, No
11What'd I Say

Disc 19
1From Sea To Shining Sea
2The Whirl And The Suck
3Call Daddy From The Mine
4The Frozen Four-Hundred-Pound Fair-To-Middlin' Cotton Picker
5The Walls Of A Prison
6The Masterpiece
7You And Tennessee
8Another Song To Sing
9The Flint Arrowhead
10Cisco Clifton's Fillin' Station
11Shrimpin' Sailin'
12From Sea To Shining Sea (Finale)

Disc 20
1Folsom Prison Blues
2Dark As The Dungeon
3I Still Miss Someone
4Cocaine Blues
525 Minutes To Go
6Orange Blossom Special
7The Long Black Veil
8Send A Picture Of Mother
9The Wall
10Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog
11Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart
12Jackson
13Give My Love To Rose
14I Got Stripes
15Green, Green Grass Of Home
16Greystone Chapel

Disc 21
1Prologue
2Land Of Israel
3A Mother's Love (narrative)
4This Is Nazareth
5Nazarene
6Town Of Cana (narrative)
7He Turned The Water Into Wine
8My Wife June At Sea Of Galilee (narrative)
9Beautiful Words (narrative)
10Our Guide Jacob At Mount Tabor
11The Ten Commandments
12Daddy Sang Bass
13At The Wailing Wall (narrative)
14Come To The Wailing Wall (narrative)
15In Bethlehem (narrative)
16In Garden Of Gethsemane (narrative)
17The Fourth Man
18On The Via Dolorosa (narrative)
19Church Of The Holy Sepulchre (narrative)
20At Calvary (narrative)
21God Is Not Dead

Disc 22
1Wanted Man
2Wreck Of The Old 97
3I Walk The Line
4Darlin' Companion
5Starkville City Jail
6San Quentin
7San Quentin
8A Boy Named Sue
9(There'll Be) Peace In the Valley
10Folsom Prison Blues

Disc 23
1Southwind
2The Devil To Pay
3'Cause I Love You
4See Ruby Fall
5Route #1, Box 144
6Sing A Travelin' Song
7If I Were A Carpenter
8To Beat The Devil
9Blistered
10Wrinkled, Crinkled, Wadded Dollar Bill
11I've Got A Thing About Trains
12Jesus Was A Carpenter

Disc 24
1Sunday Morning Coming Down
2Come Along And Ride This Train (Six Days On The Road/There Ain't No Easy Run/The Sailor On A Concrete Sea)
3Six Days On The Road
4There Ain't No Easy Run
5The Sailor On A Concrete Sea
6These Hands
7I'm Gonna Try To Be That Way
8Come Along And Ride This Train (Mississippi Delta Land/Detroit City/Uncloudy Day/No Setting Sun/Mississippi Delta Land)
9Mississippi Delta Land
10Detroit City
11Uncloudy Day
12No Setting Sun
13Mississippi Delta Land
14Here Was A Man

Disc 25
1Flesh And Blood
2I Walk The Line
3Hungry
4This Town
5This Side Of The Law
6Flesh And Blood
7'Cause I Love You
8Cause I Love You
9The World's Gonna Fall On You
10Face Of Despair
11Standing On The Promises/Amazing Grace

Disc 26
1Rollin' Free
2Ballad Of Little Fauss And Big Halsy
3Ballad Of Little Fauss And Big Halsy
4706 Union
5The Little Man
6The Little Man
7Wanted Man
8Rollin' Free
9True Love Is Greater Than Friendship
10Movin'

Disc 27
1The Preacher Said, "Jesus Said"
2Orphan Of The Road
3You've Got A New Light Shining In Your Eyes
4If Not For Love
5Man In Black
6Singin' In Viet Nam Talkin' Blues
7Ned Kelly
8Look For Me
9Dear Mrs.
10I Talk To Jesus Every Day

Disc 28
1Kate
2Melva's Wine
3A Thing Called Love
4I Promise You
5Papa Was A Good Man
6Tear Stained Letter
7Mississippi Sand
8Daddy
9Arkansas Lovin' Man
10The Miracle Man

Disc 29
1Opening Dialogue
2Paul Revere
3Begin West Movement
4The Road To Kaintuck
5To The Shining Mountains
6The Battle Of New Orleans
7Southwestward
8Remember The Alamo
9Opening The West
10Lorena
11The Gettysburg Address
12The West
13Big Foot
14Like A Young Colt
15Mister Garfield
16A Proud Land
17The Big Battle
18On Wheels And Wings
19Come Take A Trip In My Airship
20Reaching For The Stars
21These Are My People

Disc 30
1Opening Dialogue
2King Of Love
3Dialogue
4Jingle Bells
5Dialogue
6That Christmas Feeling
7Dialogue
8My Merry Christmas Song
9Dialogue
10Merry Christmas Mary
11Dialogue
12Christmas Time's A-Comin'
13Dialogue
14Christmas With You
15Dialogue
16Christmas As I Knew It
17Dialogue
18When You're Twenty-One
19Dialogue
20An Old Fashioned Tree
21Dialogue
22Silent Night

Disc 31
1Any Old Wind That Blows
2Kentucky Straight
3The Loving Gift
4The Good Earth
5Best Friend
6Oney
7The Ballad Of Annie Palmer
8Too Little, Too Late
9If I Had A Hammer
10Country Trash
11Welcome Back Jesus

Disc 32
1Praise The Lord
2Introduction
3Gospel Road ( Part 1)*
4Jesus' Early Years*
5Gospel Road (Part 2)
6John The Baptist
7Baptism of Jesus**
8Wilderness Temptation
9Follow Me, Jesus
10Gospel Road ( Part 3)
11Jesus Announces His Divinity*
12Jesus' Opposition Is Established
13Jesus' First Miracle
14He Turned The Water Into Wine (Part 1)
15State Of The Nation
16I See Men As Trees Walking
17Jesus Was A Carpenter (Part 1)
18Choosing of Twelve Disciples**
19Jesus' Teachings
20Parable Of The Good Shepherd
21The Two Greatest Commandments
22Greater Love Hath No Man
23John The Baptist's Imprisonment and Death**
24Jesus Cleanses Temple
25Jesus Upbraids Scribes and Pharisees
26Jesus In The Temple
27Come Unto Me
28The Adulterous Woman
29Help (Part 1)
30Jesus And Nicodemus
31Help (Part 2)***
32Sermon On The Mount
33Blessed Are
34The Lord's Prayer, Amen Chorus*
35Introducing Mary Magdelene
36Mary Magdalene Speaks
37Follow Me**
38Magdalene Speaks Again

Disc 33
1Crossing The Sea Of Galilee
2He Turned The Water Into Wine (Part 2)
3He Turned The Water Into Wine (Part 3)
4Feeding The Multitude
5The Turned The Water Into Wine (Part 4)
6More Jesus Teaching
7The Living Water And The Bread Of Life
8Gospel Road (Part 4)
9Jesus and Children
10Children*
11Four Months to Live
12Help (Part 3)
13Help (Part 4)
14Raising of Lazarus
15Jesus' Second Coming
16Jesus' Entry Into Jerusalem
17Burden Of Freedom (Chorus)
18Jesus Wept
19Burden of Freedom (Chorus)
20Jesus Cleanses Temple Again
21Feast Of The Passover
22Lord Is It I?
23The Last Supper*
24John 14:1-3
25And Now He's Alone*
26Agony In Gethsemane
27Jesus Before Caiaphas, Pilate And Herod
28Burden of Freedom
29Crucifixion**
30Jesus' Last Words**
31Jesus' Death**
32Earthquake and Darkness**
33He Is Risen**
34Mary Magdalene Returns to Galilee**
35Jesus Appears To Disciples**
36The Great Commission
37Ascension, Amen Chorus*
38Jesus Was A Carpenter (Part 2)**

Disc 34
1The Color Of Love
2Saturday Night In Hickman County
3Allegheny
4Life Has Its Little Ups And Downs
5Matthew 24 (Is Knocking At The Door)
6The City Of New Orleans
7Tony
8The Pine Tree
9We're For Love
10Godshine

Disc 35
1Orleans Parish Prison
2Jacob Green
3Me And Bobby McGee
4The Prisoners Song
5The Invertebraes
6That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine
7City Jail
8Life Of A Prisoner
9Lookin' Back In Anger
10Nobody Cared
11Help Me Make It Through The Night
12I Saw A Man

Disc 36
1Ragged Old Flag
2Don't Go Near The Water
3All I Do Is Drive
4Southern Comfort
5King Of The Hill
6Pie In The Sky
7Lonesome To The Bone
8While I've Got It On My Mind
9Good Morning Friend
10I'm A Worried Man
11Please Don't Let Me Out
12What On Earth Will You Do (For Heaven's Sake)

Disc 37
1The Junkie And The Juicehead (Minus Me)
2Don't Take Your Guns To Town
3Broken Freedom Song
4I Do Believe
5Ole Slewfoot
6Keep On The Sunny Side
7Father And Daughter (Father And Son)
8Crystal Chaneliers And Burgundy
9Friendly Gates
10Billy & Rex & Oral & Bob
11Jesus
12Lay Back With My Woman

Disc 38
1Nasty Dan
2One And One Makes Two
3I Got A Boy And His Name Is John
4Little Magic Glasses
5Miss Tara
6Dinosaur Song
7Tiger Whitehead
8Call Of The Wild
9Little Green Fountain
10Old Shep
11(The) Timber Man

Disc 39
1Precious Memories
2Rock Of Ages
3The Old Rugged Cross
4Softly And Tenderly
5In The Sweet By And By
6Just As I Am
7Farther Along
8When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
9Amazing Grace
10At The Cross
11Have Thine Own Way Lord

Disc 40
1My Old Kentucky Home
2Hard Times Comin'
3The Lady Came From Baltimore
4Lonesome To The Bone
5The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
6Clean Your Own Tables
7Jesus Was Our Saviour (Cotton Was Our King)
8Reason To Believe
9Cocaine Carolina
10Smokey Factory Blues

Disc 41
1Texas-1947
2What Have You Got Planned Tonight, Diana
3Look At Them Beans
4No Charge
5I Hardly Ever Sing Beer Drinking Songs
6Down The Road I Go
7I Never Met A Man Like You Before
8All Around Cowboy
9Gone
10Down At Drippin' Springs

Disc 42
1Big River
2Dialogue #1
3Doin' My Time
4Dialogue #2
5I Still Miss Someone
6Dialogue #3
7Another Man Done Gone
8I Got Stripes
9Introduction of June Carter Cash (Dialogue #4)
10Church In the Wildwood
11Medley: Church In The Wildwood/Lonesome Valley (With The Carter Family)
12Church In The Wildwood
13Lonesome Valley
14Dialogue #5
15Strawberry Cake
16Dialogue #6
17Rock Island Line
18Navajo
19Dialogue #7
20Destination Victoria Station (With The Carter Family)
21The Fourth Man

Disc 43
1Let There Be Country
2One Piece At A Time
3In A Young Girl's Mind
4Mountain Lady
5Michigan City Howdy Do
6Sold Out Of Flagpoles
7Committed To Parkview
8Daughter Of a Railroad Man
9Love Has Lost Again
10Go On Blues

Disc 44
1I Will Dance With You
2The Last Gunfighter Ballad
3Far Side Banks Of Jordan
4Ridin' On The Cotton Belt
5Give It Away
6You're So Close To Me
7City Jail
8Cindy, I Love You
9Ballad Of Barbara
10That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine

Disc 45
1Hit The Road And Go
2Dialogue #1
3If It Wasn't For The Wabash River
4Dialogue #2
5Lady
6Dialogue #3
7After The Ball
8Dialogue #4
9No Earthly Good
10Dialogue #5
11A Wednesday Car
12Dialogue #6
13My Cowboy's Last Ride
14Dialogue #7
15Calilou
16Dialogue #8

Disc 46
1I Would Like To See You Again
2Lately
3I Wish I Was Crazy Again
4Who's Gene Autry?
5Hurt So Bad
6I Don't Think I Could Take You Back Again
7Abner Brown
8After Taxes
9There Ain't No Good Chain Gang (with Waylon Jennings)
10That's The Way It Is
11I'm Alright Now

Disc 47
1Gone Girl
2I Will Rock And Roll With You
3The Diplomat
4No Expectations
5It Comes And Goes
6It'll Be Her
7The Gambler
8Cajun Born
9You And Me
10A Song For The Life

Disc 48
1The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore
2Lonesome To The Bone
3Bull Rider
4I'll Say It's True
5(Ghost) Riders In The Sky
6Cocaine Blues
7Muddy Waters
8West Canterbury Subdivision Blues
9Lately I Been Leanin' Toward The Blues
10I'm Gonna Sit On The Porch And Pick On My Old Guitar

Disc 49
1Cold Lonesome Morning
2Without Love
3W-O-M-A-N
4The Cowboy Who Started The Fight
5The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over
6Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)
7The Last Time
8She's A Go-er
9It Ain't Nothing New Babe
10One Way Rider

Disc 50
1Joy To The World
2Away In A Manger
3O Little Town Of Bethlehem
4Silent Night, Holy Night
5It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
6Hark The Herald Angels Sing
7I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
8O Come All Ye Faithful
9Little Gray Donkey
10The Christmas Guest

Disc 51
1The Baron
2Mobile Bay
3The Hard Way
4A Ceiling, Four Walls, And A Floor
5Hey, Hey Train
6The Reverend Mr. Black
7The Blues Keep Gettin' Bluer
8Chattanooga City Limit Sign
9Thanks To You
10The Greatest Love Affair

Disc 52
1Get Rhythm
2I Forgot To Remember To Forget
3Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad
4That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine
5Matchbox
6I'll Fly Away
7Whole Lot-Ta Shakin' Goin' On
8Rockin' My Life Away
9Blue Suede Shoes
10There Will Be Peace In The Valley For Me
11Can The Circle Be Unbroken
12I Saw The Light

Disc 53
1Georgia On A Fast Train
2John's
3Fair Weather Friends
4Paradise
5We Must Believe In Magic
6Only Love
7Good Old Amerian Guest
8I'll Cross Over Jordon Someday
9Sing A Song
10Ain't Gonna Hobo No More

Disc 54
1Highway Patrolman
2That's The Truth
3God Bless Robert E. Lee
4New Cut Road
5Johnny 99
6Ballad Of The Ark
7Joshua Gone Barbados
8Girl From The Canyon
9Brand New Dance
10I'm Ragged But I'm Right

Disc 55
1Ring Of Fire
2Folsom Prison Blues
3I Still Miss Someone
4Big River
5Cowboy Medley: I Ride An Old Paint/The Streets Of Laredo
6I Ride An Old Paint
7The Streets Of Laredo
8Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
9I Walk The Line
10Last Date
11City Of New Orleans
12Railroad Medley: Hey Porter/Wreck Of The Old '97/Casey Jones/Orange Blossom Special
13Hey Porter
14Wreck Of The Old '97
15Casey Jones
16Orange Blossom Special
17Wabash Cannonball
18Wabash Cannonball (conclusion)

Disc 56
1I'm Leaving Now
2Here Comes That Rainbow Again
3They're All The Same
4Easy Street
5Have You Ever Seen The Rain
6You Beat All I Ever Saw
7Unwed Fathers
8Love Me Like You Used To
9Casey's Last Ride
10Borderline (A Musical Whodunit)

Disc 57
1Highwayman
2The Last Cowboy Song
3Jim, I Wore A Tie Today
4Big River
5Committed To Parkview
6Desperados Waiting For A Train
7Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
8Welfare Line
9Against The Wind
10The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over

Disc 58
1Folks Out On The Road
2I'm Never Gonna Roam Again
3American By Birth
4Field Of Diamonds
5Heroes
6Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
7Love Is The Way
8The Ballad Of Forty Dollars
9I'll Always Love You (In My Own Crazy Way)
10One Too Many Mornings

Disc 59
1Silver Stallion
2Born And Raised In Black And White
3Two Stories Wide
4We're All In Your Corner
5American Remains
6Anthem '84
7Angels Love Bad Men
8Songs That Make A Difference
9Living Legend
10Texas

Disc 60
1Big River
2I Still Miss Someone
3Five Feet High And Rising
4Pickin' Time
5Remember The Alamo
6Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
7Wreck Of The Old 97
8The Long Black Veil
9The Wall
10Send A Picture Of Mother
11Folsom Prison Blues
12Blue Suede Shoes
13Flowers On The Wall
14Wildwood Flower
15Worried Man Blues
16A Boy Named Sue
17Cocaine Blues
18Jesus Was A Carpenter
19The Ballad Of Ira Hayes
20As Long As The Grass Shall Grow
21Sing A Travelin' Song
22He Turned The Water Into Wine
23Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
24Daddy Sang Bass
25Finale Medley
26Do What You Do, Do Well
27I Walk The Line
28Ring Of Fire
29Folsom Prison Blues
30The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
31Folsom Prison Blues
32Suppertime

Disc 61
1Rock Island Line
2(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
3Country Boy
4If The Good Lord's Willing
5Cry Cry Cry
6Remember Me (I'm The One Who Loves You)
7So Doggone Lonesome
8I Was There When It Happened
9I Walk The Line
10The Wreck Of The Old 97
11Folsom Prison Blues
12Doin' My Time
13Luther Played The Boogie
14Hey Porter
15Get Rhythm
16Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
17There You Go
18Come In Stranger
19Don't Make Me Go
20Train Of Love
21Guess Things Happen That Way
22The Ways Of A Woman In Love
23Next In Line
24You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven
25I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
26Home Of The Blues
27Big River
28Give My Love To Rose

Disc 62
1All Over Again
2You Dreamer You
3I Got Stripes
4I'll Remember You
5Lorena
6Smiling Bill McCall
7Second Honeymoon
8Girl In Saskatoon
9Locomotive Man
10Tall Men
11A Little At A Time
12Pick A Bale O' Cotton
13Send A Picture Of Mother
14The Matador
15Dark As A Dungeon
16Hammers And Nails
17Time And Time Again
18The Sons Of Katie Elder
19A Certain Kinda Hurtin'
20Cotton Pickin' Hands
21Bottom Of A Mountain
22You Beat All I Ever Saw
23Put The Sugar To Bed
24The Wind Changes
25Red Velvet
26Rosanna's Going Wild
27Roll Call
28The Folk Singer
29Girl From The North Country
30What Is Truth
31Little Bit Of Yesterday
32A Song To Mama

Disc 63
1No Need To Worry
2I'll Be Loving You
3A Front Row Seat To Hear Ole Johnny Sing
4The World Needs A Melody
5Help Me Make It Through The Night
6Praise The Lord And Pass The Soup
7The Ballad Of Barbara
8Pick The Wildwood Flower
9Diamonds In The Rough
10Song To Woody
11Hey Porter
12I Still Miss Someone
13My Ship Will Sail
14It's All Over
15Old Time Feeling
16Song Of The Patriot
17I Will Dance With You
18The General Lee
19Crazy Old Soldier
20The Chicken In Black
21Battle Of Nashville
22They Killed Him
23The Three Bells
24The Human Condition

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Thanks a lot, Claus and Peter - really looking forward to this baby!

I am in two minds about the track listing. It seems the original information from a few months ago that albums would be in mono and stereo was incorrect, and it appears that none of the albums have bonus tracks either. In some cases this makes sense, but Folsom Prison and San Quentin were only made better by the added tracks on the late 90s editions, and I would argue that Silver was nicely complemented by the two extra duets on the CD issue - only one of which appears to be here on disc 63. There is probably another 2 CDs worth of Columbia oddities and singles not present here, and it's a shame that they didn't go the extra mile to complete the collection. On the other hand, it's wonderful to see such fine yet forgotten albums as Rainbow and Strawberry Cake finally being made available - and one can only assume that another edition of the Bootleg series will act as a mopping up exercise of material not collected here.

I still think the monos are included which was also stated in the press release.but I just don't think they are mentioned.

I still think the monos are included which was also stated in the press release.but I just don't think they are mentioned.

i have a feeling it is going to be the monos but not the stereos!

I still think the monos are included which was also stated in the press release.but I just don't think they are mentioned.

i have a feeling it is going to be the monos but not the stereos!

Exactly...

"First 19 Albums (1958-1967) released for first time in mono on CD by Columbia/Legacy in the U.S."

I'm glad so I don't have to feel guilty for possessing the Bear boxes...

Peter, you're right, somehow they should have released everything they have in the Columbia vaults (I mean, every master, every duet etc. and live-concerts in complete form) - but this will probably happen to celebrate Cash's 100th birthday (or 25th anniversary of his death) or so...

I think when you copy all the albums and put them on CD-R's you'll most likely only have 40 CD's maximum, but hey, I like the original sleeves.
One bad thing is you have to change the CD's every 25 minutes...

So much music I haven't heard yet... didn't even know he recorded "Life Has It's Little Ups And Downs", a. o.

Peter, you're right, somehow they should have released everything they have in the Columbia vaults (I mean, every master, every duet etc. and live-concerts in complete form) - but this will probably happen to celebrate Cash's 100th birthday (or 25th anniversary of his death) or so...

Sony didn't do this for the Elvis set, either. In fact, The Elvis set is probably less complete than this set.

Peter, you're right, somehow they should have released everything they have in the Columbia vaults (I mean, every master, every duet etc. and live-concerts in complete form) - but this will probably happen to celebrate Cash's 100th birthday (or 25th anniversary of his death) or so...

Sony didn't do this for the Elvis set, either. In fact, The Elvis set is probably less complete than this set.

And a few bucks more expensive...

Absolutely. But this set doesn't come with a hard-cover book.

It still baffles me that a down-sized version of the Elvis set hasn't been released and is widely available. If Sony can release a 63-disc Johnny Cash box, they can also release a 30-disc Elvis box.

Despite my criticisms about there being certain material missing from the set, I have to say I am looking forward to this. I sincerely hope that the CD debut of the vast majority of his 70s and 80s albums will lead to a re-evaluation of them, because I do genuinely feel they are unfairly maligned on the whole (although albums such as Johnny Cash and his Woman deserves all the criticism it gets!)

Edit: Obviously it is worth saying that the above track listing might not be totally accurate - certainly the track listings that appeared for the recent 20 disc set of Elvis albums were not accurate in places - and I notice the Gospel Road albums lists "Help" instead of "Help Me" throughout. From what I remember of that double album, the term "help me" was what I was pleading by the time I got to the end!!!

Absolutely. But this set doesn't come with a hard-cover book.

It still baffles me that a down-sized version of the Elvis set hasn't been released and is widely available. If Sony can release a 63-disc Johnny Cash box, they can also release a 30-disc Elvis box.

Why quit milking the cow as long as it gets?
If they'd to, this thing would probably still cost at least about 300 - 400 Euros...

Despite my criticisms about there being certain material missing from the set, I have to say I am looking forward to this. I sincerely hope that the CD debut of the vast majority of his 70s and 80s albums will lead to a re-evaluation of them, because I do genuinely feel they are unfairly maligned on the whole (although albums such as Johnny Cash and his Woman deserves all the criticism it gets!)

Edit: Obviously it is worth saying that the above track listing might not be totally accurate - certainly the track listings that appeared for the recent 20 disc set of Elvis albums were not accurate in places - and I notice the Gospel Road albums lists "Help" instead of "Help Me" throughout. From what I remember of that double album, the term "help me" was what I was pleading by the time I got to the end!!!

Even though the tracklisting might not be totally accurate, I don't expect any surprises at all. I hate to say it but I can't stand June Carter's "singing", that's why I almost NEVER listen to the duets, maybe except for "Jackson" or "If I Were A Carpenter".
I am really looking forward to hear all of the 70's albums, I really like the ones I know ("Silver", "Ragged Old Flag", "I Would Like To See You Again" and the ones included on the Bear box).

The albums will not contain any bonus tracks.

Damn it!

I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.