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The best of the Johnny Cash TV show, 1969-1971.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: 88697 15371 2 | Columbia/Legacy88697 21230 2 | Columbia/LegacyPublication details: New York, NY : Columbia/Legacy, ℗2007.Description: 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
ISBN:
  • 0008490090
  • 9780008490096
Other title:
  • Johnny Cash TV show
Uniform titles:
  • Johnny Cash show (Television program)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The Johnny Cash show open ; I walk the line (2:53) -- Flesh and blood (3:03) -- Stand by your man (Tammy Wynette) (2:48) -- Medley. She thinks I still care ; Love bug ; The race is on (George Jones) (3:48) -- I've been everywhere (with Lynn Anderson) (2:16) -- Detroit City (Bobby Bare) (3:24) -- Ring of fire (Ray Charles) (3:52) -- It's too late (Derek and the Dominos) (4:14) -- Loving her was easier (than anything I'll ever do again) (Kris Kristofferson) (3:25) -- Medley. Only the lonely ; Oh, pretty woman (Roy Orbison) (4:00) -- Belshazzar (with the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers) (2:37) -- Brown eyed handsome man (Waylon Jennings) (2:47) -- Girl from the north country (with Joni Mitchell) (3:45) -- Fire and rain (James Taylor) (3:48) -- Daddy sang bass (with the Carter Family, the Statler brothers, Carl Perkins, and the Tennessee Three) (2:24) -- Closing monologue ; I walk the line (reprise) (2:13).
Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar ; various other performers ; with accompanying musicians.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult CD Adult CD Main Library CD COUNTRY Cash, Johnny Available 33111009086212
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Johnny Cash wasn't the first major country music star to host a television series, but he was the first to have a weekly show on a major network, and given Cash's eclectic willingness to embrace any kind of music as long as it was good and honest, it's not surprising that during its two years on the air The Johnny Cash Show featured a variety of noted musical artists who didn't often appear on television, including Bob Dylan, Louis Armstrong, Neil Young, and Bill Monroe. None of those performers appear on this CD drawn from the archives of The Johnny Cash Show (though they can be seen on a companion DVD set released by Columbia/Legacy), and the big studio band that muddies the arrangements of "I Walk the Line," "Daddy Sang Bass," and "I've Been Everywhere" on this disc prove that for all Cash's brave good intentions, there were some conventions of American television he wasn't able to escape. It's also hard to say why, given the star-studded roster of artists who graced Cash's stage, this disc features Bobby Bare, Lynn Anderson, and Tammy Wynette instead of, say, Stevie Wonder, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Pete Seeger (though in all fairness Bare's rendition of "Detroit City" on this album is terrific). The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show doesn't quite deliver the show's most historically significant and exciting moments, but what's here is generally pretty good. Ray Charles delivers a passionate reading of "Ring of Fire," Cash duets memorably with Joni Mitchell on "Girl from the North Country," Waylon Jennings sings "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" with his usual casual authority (and his banter with Cash is spontaneous and funny) and Kris Kristofferson is near the top of his game as a performer as he sings "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)," while Cash delivers the goods with strong renditions of "Flesh and Blood" and "Belshazzar." Johnny Cash's television series was a fearless experiment in bringing the best of American music to the small screen, and the DVD collection demonstrates that it often achieved that lofty goal; this CD doesn't hit that same target, even if it does preserve a few pearls from the Cash archive. ~ Mark Deming

Columbia/Legacy: 88697 15371 2 (disc); 88697 21230 2 (container).

Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar ; various other performers ; with accompanying musicians.

Recorded live on the Johnny Cash show.

Compact disc.

The Johnny Cash show open ; I walk the line (2:53) -- Flesh and blood (3:03) -- Stand by your man (Tammy Wynette) (2:48) -- Medley. She thinks I still care ; Love bug ; The race is on (George Jones) (3:48) -- I've been everywhere (with Lynn Anderson) (2:16) -- Detroit City (Bobby Bare) (3:24) -- Ring of fire (Ray Charles) (3:52) -- It's too late (Derek and the Dominos) (4:14) -- Loving her was easier (than anything I'll ever do again) (Kris Kristofferson) (3:25) -- Medley. Only the lonely ; Oh, pretty woman (Roy Orbison) (4:00) -- Belshazzar (with the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers) (2:37) -- Brown eyed handsome man (Waylon Jennings) (2:47) -- Girl from the north country (with Joni Mitchell) (3:45) -- Fire and rain (James Taylor) (3:48) -- Daddy sang bass (with the Carter Family, the Statler brothers, Carl Perkins, and the Tennessee Three) (2:24) -- Closing monologue ; I walk the line (reprise) (2:13).

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