Johnny Cash - The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-1958

Title: The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-1958 Artist: Johnny Cash Release Date: 11/8/2005 Label: Time/Life Music Album Type(s): Greatest Hits, Box set UPC: 610583174724 Genre: Country Styles: Rock & Roll, Traditional Country, Cowboy, Rockabilly Moods: Acerbic, Bittersweet, Brash, Brooding, Cathartic, Earthy, Gloomy, Plaintive, Rebellious, Rowdy, Searching, Somber, Wry, Autumnal, Bitter, Boisterous, Cheerful, Confident, Detached, Earnest, Fiery, Fun, Organic, Playful, Rambunctious, Restrained, Rousing, Carefree, Energetic, Gritty, Irreverent, Lively, Melancholy, Provocative, Ramshackle, Reflective, Sad, Sparse, Swaggering, Dramatic, Poignant, Spiritual, Weary, Wistful Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 3

1. Wide Open Road
2. Hey, Porter
3. Cry, Cry, Cry
4. My Two Timin' Woman
5. Port of Lonely Hearts
6. I Couldn't Keep from Crying
7. Trail to Mexico
8. Folsom Prison Blues
9. So Doggone Lonesome
10. Mean Eyed Cat
11. Luther Played the Boogie
12. Get Rhythm
13. I Walk the Line
14. Train of Love
15. There You Go
16. I Love You Because
17. Goodbye Little Darlin'
18. Staight A's in Love
19. You're My Baby (Little Woolly Booger)
20. My Treasure

1. Next in Line
2. Don't Make Me Go
3. Give My Love to Rose
4. Home of the Blues
5. Rock Island Line
6. Wreck of the Old 97
7. Country Boy
8. Doin' My Time
9. If the Good Lord's Willing
10. I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow
11. I Was There When It Happened
12. Remember Me (I'm the One Who Loves You)
13. Belshazzar
14. Big River
15. Goodnight Irene
16. Ballad of a Teenage Queen
17. Come in, Stranger
18. Guess Things Happen That Way
19. Oh, Lonesome Me
20. Leave That Junk Alone

1. You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven
2. The Story of a Broken Heart
3. Sugartime
4. Born to Lose
5. Always Alone
6. You Tell Me
7. Life Goes On
8. You Win Again
9. I Could Never Be Ashamed of You
10. Hey, Good Lookin'
11. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)
12. Cold, Cold Heart
13. Blue Train
14. Katy Too
15. The Ways of a Woman in Love
16. Fool's Hall of Fame
17. Thanks a Lot
18. It's Just About Time
19. I Forgot to Remember to Forget
20. I Just Thought You'd Like to Know
21. Down the Street to 301

Year Type Label Catalog # 2005 CD Time/Life Music 20803

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Johnny Cash's classic recordings for Sun have been reissued many times, and they have been issued in complete form before, most notably in Bear Family's exhaustive five-disc 1990 box set, The Man in Black: 1954-1958. Because of this glut of product, it's easy to look at Time-Life's 2005 three-disc set, The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-1958, and wonder if it's necessary, or just a quick cash-in tied into the release of the Joaquin Phoenix-starring 2005 biopic Walk the Line. After all, if you're nitpicking, this doesn't even contain the complete Sun recordings -- meaning that this doesn't contain all the alternate takes and false starts that are on the Bear Family box. But if you're looking for alternate takes -- or for that matter, the fly-on-the-wall fifth disc documenting a full recording session from The Man in Black -- you already have the Bear Family set in your library anyway and you wouldn't be interested in another complete Sun set unless it unearths forgotten recordings, which this does not. Instead, Time-Life's box does something useful: it presents one version of each of song Cash recorded at Sun in one convenient package. There are a handful of tracks that include false starts and, at times, undubbed masters are used, but if the hit version is better-known with overdubs -- as on "Guess Things Happen That Way" -- they wisely choose to use that instead. Consequently, this winds up as a useful, succinct summary of Cash's Sun recordings -- a package for the dedicated listener who doesn't need the alternate takes or the actual albums, but wants it all anyway. For that audience, this is an excellent choice. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

Name Credits A.W. "Red" Kernodle Guitar (Steel) Asa Wilkerson Vocals Bill Abbott Vocals Bill Flanagan Text Billy Riley Guitar Charlie Rich Piano Colin Escott Interviewer, Liner Notes, Compilation Producer, Photography David Booth Interviewer Don Carter Vocals Ed Salamon Text Francesca Chalukoff Project Manager J.M. Van Eaton Drums Jack Clement Guitar, Producer, Guitar (Acoustic) Jerry Lee Lewis Piano Jimmy Smith Piano Jimmy Wilson Piano Johnny Cash Vocal Harmony, Guitar, Text, Vocals Joseph M. Palmaccio Compilation Producer, Mastering Lee Holt Vocals Luther Perkins Guitar Lynne O'Connor Editing Malcolm Yelvington Vocals Marshall Grant Interviewee, Bass Martin Hawkins Interviewer Mike Jason Liner Notes, Compilation Producer Nita Smith Vocals Olivia Kim Editing Peter Guralnick Text Sam Phillips Audio Production Sara Bruce Vocals Sid Manker Guitar