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Bootleg. Vol. I, Personal file / Johnny Cash.

By: Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: 88697 83015 2 | Columbia88697 83015 2-D1 | Columbia | (disc 1)88697 83015 2-D2 | Columbia | (disc 2)Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia, 2011Copyright date: ©2006, 2011Description: 2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
Other title:
  • Personal file
  • Bootleg. Volume one
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1. The letter edged in black (2:38) -- There's a mother always waiting at home (4:20) -- The engineer's dying child (2:06) -- My mother was a lady (3:35) -- The winding stream (2:36) -- Far away places (2:23) -- Galway Bay (1:44) -- When I stop dreaming (3:10) -- Drink to me only with thine eyes (3:31) -- I'll take you home again Kathleen (2:27) -- Missouri waltz (1:58) -- Louisiana man (3:27) -- Paradise (3:03) -- I don't believe you wanted to leave (2:55) -- Jim, I wore a tie today (2:46) -- Saginaw, Michigan (2:29) -- When it's springtime in Alaska (It's forty below) (2:15) -- Girl in Saskatoon (2:16) -- The cremation of Sam McGee (5:32) -- Tiger Whitehead (4:44) -- It's all over (2:49) -- A fast song (2:31) -- Virgie (2:56) -- I wanted so (2:40) -- It takes one to know me (3:14).
Disc 2. Seal it in my heart and mind (1:50) -- Wildwood in the pines (2:40) -- Who at my door is standing (2:30) -- Have thine own way Lord (3:42) -- Lights of Magdala (2:26) -- If Jesus ever loved a woman (2:37) -- The lily of the valley (1:43) -- Have a drink of water (3:35) -- The way worn traveler (2:01) -- Look unto the East (2:11) -- Matthew 24 (is knocking at the door) (1:56) -- The house is falling down (2:50) -- One of these days I'm gonna sit down and talk to Paul (3:19) -- What on earth (will you do for Heaven's sake) (2:44) -- My children walk in the truth (2:49) -- No earthly good (1:50) -- Sanctified (2:33) -- Lord, Lord, Lord (2:18) -- What is man (2:21) -- Over the next hill (we'll be home) (2:54) -- A half a mile a day (4:24) -- Farther along (2:56) -- Life's railway to Heaven (2:14) -- In the sweet bye and bye (2:50).
Production credits:
  • Compiled and produced by Gregg Geller.
Performed by Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar ; with accompanying musicians.Summary: Formerly locked away in a box marked 'Personal File, ' these songs were recorded mostly in 1973. Just a lone voice and an acoustic guitar, singing songs and telling stories about them.
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Holdings
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 33111009485695
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This double-disc collection of unreleased material from Legacy is a rare thing. These tapes are not dead-dog files from Columbia's vaults. Instead, they contain songs Johnny Cash cut at his home studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee between July of 1973 and December of 1983. While closing down the House of Cash studio, museum, and store, John Carter Cash invited Steve Berkowitz and some colleagues to sort through the material and tapes housed in Cash's personal vault. They found some tidy white tape boxes marked "Personal File"; these are those tapes. Some of the songs here are traditional and spiritual songs Cash sang as a boy or heard from his companions. He tells stories to introduce many of the tunes, and these recollections become as important as the songs themselves. When he introduces "Far Away Places," he tells a story about one of his first talent contests (he got only two votes) and reveals that his selection of material cost him first place. You can hear the memories, painful and hopeful, float back through his delivery, spoken and sung. His reading of "Saginaw, Michigan" contains no peremptory tale, but the song says it all, and Cash brings the tune's tragic narrative to life in the listener's present. Likewise, three other Northern-themed numbers -- "When It's Springtime in Alaska," "Girl from Saskatoon" (co-written with Johnny Horton), and a devastating read of Robert Service's poem "Cremation of Sam McGee" -- add to this narrative. "It's All Over" is an original that comes from Cash's early days but was never recorded properly. There are also covers of tunes by the Louvin Brothers, John Prine, Doug Kershaw, Rodney Crowell, and Carlene Carter. Disc two is primarily made up of devotional songs; they range from well-known hymns -- "Lily of the Valley," "Farther Along," and "The Way Worn Traveler" -- to provocative tunes of unknown origin -- "If Jesus Ever Loved a Woman" (It Was Mary Magdalene)." There are gorgeous original songs such as "No Earthly Good," "What Is Man?," and the track Greil Marcus bases his new liner notes on, "A Half a Mile a Day." Marcus does his usual riff, appropriating French critical theory to (mis)interpret the American experience with claims that "the songs sing the singer," and Cash "disappears into the songs"; but he's wrong. Both the original and historical songs become the stuff of myth and pathos (instead of quaint, dusted-off reflections from musical history) as we eavesdrop on Cash's voice; he delivers them from the ashes with his authority as an artist because he couldn't help but do that. Cash recorded the cover tunes, folk songs, and hymns because they meant something to him; he cut the songs he wrote in order to simply not forget them. Bootleg, Vol. 1: Personal File is a slice of musical autobiography cut in a setting of solitude for the sake of documenting it audio-journal style. For Cash fans, this is simply essential listening. ~ Thom Jurek

Compiled and produced by Gregg Geller.

Performed by Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar ; with accompanying musicians.

Recorded July 11, 1973 through Feb. 3, 1982.

Compact discs.

Title from disc label.

Disc 1. The letter edged in black (2:38) -- There's a mother always waiting at home (4:20) -- The engineer's dying child (2:06) -- My mother was a lady (3:35) -- The winding stream (2:36) -- Far away places (2:23) -- Galway Bay (1:44) -- When I stop dreaming (3:10) -- Drink to me only with thine eyes (3:31) -- I'll take you home again Kathleen (2:27) -- Missouri waltz (1:58) -- Louisiana man (3:27) -- Paradise (3:03) -- I don't believe you wanted to leave (2:55) -- Jim, I wore a tie today (2:46) -- Saginaw, Michigan (2:29) -- When it's springtime in Alaska (It's forty below) (2:15) -- Girl in Saskatoon (2:16) -- The cremation of Sam McGee (5:32) -- Tiger Whitehead (4:44) -- It's all over (2:49) -- A fast song (2:31) -- Virgie (2:56) -- I wanted so (2:40) -- It takes one to know me (3:14).

Disc 2. Seal it in my heart and mind (1:50) -- Wildwood in the pines (2:40) -- Who at my door is standing (2:30) -- Have thine own way Lord (3:42) -- Lights of Magdala (2:26) -- If Jesus ever loved a woman (2:37) -- The lily of the valley (1:43) -- Have a drink of water (3:35) -- The way worn traveler (2:01) -- Look unto the East (2:11) -- Matthew 24 (is knocking at the door) (1:56) -- The house is falling down (2:50) -- One of these days I'm gonna sit down and talk to Paul (3:19) -- What on earth (will you do for Heaven's sake) (2:44) -- My children walk in the truth (2:49) -- No earthly good (1:50) -- Sanctified (2:33) -- Lord, Lord, Lord (2:18) -- What is man (2:21) -- Over the next hill (we'll be home) (2:54) -- A half a mile a day (4:24) -- Farther along (2:56) -- Life's railway to Heaven (2:14) -- In the sweet bye and bye (2:50).

Formerly locked away in a box marked 'Personal File, ' these songs were recorded mostly in 1973. Just a lone voice and an acoustic guitar, singing songs and telling stories about them.

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