Track Listings (13) - Disc #1| All Artists: Johnny Cash Title: Hymns By Johnny Cash Members Wishing: 5 Total Copies: 0 Label: Sony Original Release Date: 1/1/1959 Re-Release Date: 3/19/2002 Album Type: Original recording remastered Genres: Country, Pop, Christian & Gospel Styles: Classic Country, Country & Bluegrass Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 696998633124 |
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No country artist this side of Hank Williams strikes a better balance between secular temptation and spiritual redemption than Johnny Cash. While Hymns (originally released in 1959) is an album-length testament of faith, i... more » |
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Amazon.com No country artist this side of Hank Williams strikes a better balance between secular temptation and spiritual redemption than Johnny Cash. While Hymns (originally released in 1959) is an album-length testament of faith, it features the characteristics of Cash's classic country--the conversational phrasing and plainspoken conviction, the craggy baritone that sounds like it was carved from Mount Rushmore, the stripped-down arrangements, and the steady lope of Luther Perkins's guitar. Many of the highlights are Cash originals, from the propulsive "It Was Jesus" to the stately "Lead Me Father" to the call-and-response of "He'll Be a Friend." A stirring "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" finds Cash putting his signature on the traditional hymnal as well. Throughout, there's a musical spirit of sharing rather than preaching. --Don McLeese Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsOne of Johnny's early best Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 09/06/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "The story is that Sun Records owner Sam Phillips wouldn't let Cash record religious material, so Johnny up and split for a more lucrative contract at Columbia. I bet if Phillips knew how good the album gospel album would turn out, he wouldn't have been so stubborn about it. A really nice record -- one of Cash's best and most heartfelt early albums on the Columbia label. Defintely check it out, if you're not overly troubled by the Christian proseltyizing." The album Cash moved to Columbia to make hyperbolium | Earth, USA | 05/27/2002 (4 out of 5 stars) "Columbia's year-long reissue program, celebrating Cash's seventieth birthday, began in February with the release of "The Essential Johnny Cash," and continues with enhanced releases of several crucial original LPs. Each album is remastered, and expanded with new essays, bonus tracks and a newly penned introduction from Cash.1959's "Hymns By Johnny Cash" is considered the album for which Cash "came to Columbia" (or "left Sun," depending on who's talking). Sun's owner, Sam Phillips, didn't see a market for an album of sacred songs, but Columbia had no such misgivings, and sold a half-million copies. Cash invested himself deeply in these declarations of faith, his baritone praise (set against stark accompaniment) displayed a growing maturity and distance from the pop orientation of his Sun days. The mix of originals and standards became mainstays of his repertoire, providing a moral focal point for his shows and an oft-needed lifeline for his soul.Over the decades, Cash's sound, forged on his very first single at Sun, has proven a remarkably spacious and fertile ground in which to develop his genre-bounding songbook. Given the depth and breadth of his catalog, a compilation, such as "The Essential Johnny Cash" serves as a Cliff's Notes introduction, while the original LPs provide richly detailed chapters in the story of an American musical icon." Who was it, everybody? Johnny Heering | Bethel, CT United States | 02/14/2006 (4 out of 5 stars) "This was Johnny Cash's second Columbia album. He specifically went to Columbia Records because they promised that he would be allowed to record an occasional gospel album, which Sun Records wouldn't allow him to do. The album contains Johnny's originals and his take on his favorite gospel songs. It is a very good example of "country gospel". There is one bonus track, which is the mono EP version of "It Was Jesus". It is the same recording as the album version of "It Was Jesus", but the chorus that sings backup is missing."
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