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Johnny Cash Johnny Cash With His Hot And Blue Guitar (1957)
Originally Released 1957\nCD Edition Released July 23, 2002\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Cash's first album, released on Sun in 1957, was a little more folkloric and traditional in bent than what he put on most of his singles, though not pronouncedly so. In fact, four of the tracks ("I Walk the Line," "Cry! Cry! Cry!," "So Doggone Lonesome," and "Folsom Prison Blues") had already been hit singles. For the rest of the set, Cash drew on some older folk ("Rock Island Line," "The Wreck of the Old '97"), country ("[I Heard That] Lonesome Whistle," "Remember Me [I'm the One Who Loves You]"), prison ("Doin' My Time"), and spiritual ("I Was There When It Happened") songs. Filling out the set was a good, rollicking Cash original, "Country Boy," and a rather sassy tune by the young Jerry Reed, "If the Good Lord's Willing." It's a good, solid record that's very much in the mold of his classic early Sun sound, with spare accompaniment that nevertheless often approaches a rockabilly-country bounce. The 2002 CD reissue on Varese Sarabande adds five bonus tracks: the fine, brisk B-sides "Hey, Porter!" and "Get Rhythm," as well as alternate versions of "I Was There When It Happened," "Folsom Prison Blues," and "I Walk the Line." The album's desirability's a little diminished by the presence of the material on numerous other compilations in the CD era, though it still stands well on its own. -- Richie Unterberger\n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nBEWARE!, November 9, 2002 \nReviewer: A music fan from McFarland, WI USA \nI agree with RedTunicTroll's review - I've waited a long time to see this great album re-issued on CD (hence the five star rating). I would add that the remastering is excellent. However, I am very sorry to say that Varese (the re-issue label) has substituted an alternate demo take of "Country Boy" instead of the full band version that appears on the original album. The version of "Country Boy" on this CD has just Cash with his guitar. It's a nice version of the song, but the one on the original album has Perkins on guitar and Grant on bass. I know this for certain because I have an original copy of this album from the late 1950s - it's a very beat-up copy, but it plays well enough for me to say without a doubt that Varese made a mistake! \n\nAmazon.com Customer Review\nThe Man in Black's Debut LP, August 4, 2002 \nReviewer: RedTunicTroll from Earth, USA \nGiven how many times Cash's Sun catalog has been visited for CD reissues, it's truly amazing that his 1957 debut album -- and, in fact, the first long-player ever issued by Sun Records -- has never seen the laser-light of compact disc. Varese Vintage lovingly rights this wrong with a superb reissue of the original twelve tracks, five bonus cuts, newly penned liner notes from Bill Dahl, and the album's original cover art.\n\nThough the album's hits and singles have been collected on numerous CDs, many of the other tracks have appeared sporadically at best, and several have only been available on in Bear Family's "Man in Black 1954-1958" box set. More enticingly, this reissue is the first CD that reproduces the original track order, placing the album's trio of iconic original composition hits ("Cry! Cry! Cry!" "I Walk the Line" and "Folsom Prison Blues") in the context of Cash's recordings of other's songs.\n\nCash's baritone, backed by the Luther Perkins' tick-tack guitar and Marshall Grant's upright acoustic bass, is equally at home fueling rhythmic train songs, such as Leadbelly's "Rock Island Line" and the traditional "The Wreck of the Old '97," as going down-tempo for prison laments such as Hank Williams' "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle Blow)" and Jimmie Skinner's "Doin' My Time". \n\nThese initial sessions for Sun, spanning the 1955 recording of Cash's first single, "Cry! Cry! Cry!" to the album sessions in August 1957, are a study in minimalism. Cash's voice is front and center, and the Tennessee Two's accompaniment, unslicked by the later production flourishes of Jack Clement, gain power from their spareness.\n\nBonus tracks include two contemporary flip-sides ("Hey, Porter!" and "Get Rhythm") and three previously unissued alternate versions. Of particular interest is the version of "Folsom Prison Blues" that was cut four months before the hit single. Cash's vocal is surprisingly tentative, rendered more towards his middle register than his trademark baritone's bottom end.\n\nWith Elvis, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis providing the foundation rock 'n' roll sound of Sun Records, one might wonder why Sam Phillips decided to employ Johnny Cash's decidedly different catalog for the label's first long-player. A quick spin through this rock-solid debut, with album tracks that measure up to the hits, explains exactly why. \n\nHalf.com Album Credits\nSam Phillips, Producer\n\nAlbum Notes\nThis reissue of the 1957 Sun Records release has never been available on CD. Includes 5 bonus tracks.
This country cd contains 17 tracks and runs 39min 51sec.
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