The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Johnny Cash
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $34.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  40 reviews
Sales Rank: 103210
Format: Box Set, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5 x 0.8
UPC: 074646555729
EAN: 0074646555729
ASIN: B000007QCM
Release Date: June 23, 1998
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Condition: Just the Discs, no outer box. Used CD, Looks Great. Ships from NYC First Class Mail. Will ship International.
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Disc 1
| • | Hey Porter - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Cry Cry Cry - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Luther Played the Boogie - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Home of the Blues - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Give My Love to Rose - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Rock Island Line - Johnny Cash, Leadbelly | | • | Doin' My Time - Johnny Cash, Skinner, Jimmy | | • | Big River - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Ballad of a Teenage Queen - Johnny Cash, Clement, Jack | | • | Guess Things Happen That Way - Johnny Cash, Clement, Jack | | • | The Ways of a Woman in Love - Johnny Cash, Justis, Bill | | • | Thanks a Lot - Johnny Cash, Rich, Charlie | | • | Oh, What a Dream - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | What Do I Care - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | All over Again - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | I Still Miss Someone - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | I'd Just Be Fool Enough (To Fall) - Johnny Cash, Endsley, Melvin | | • | Walking the Blues - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Frankie's Man Johnny - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Tennessee Flat Top Box - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Sing It Pretty, Sue - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Pickin' Time - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Five Feet High and Rising - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | The Old Account - Johnny Cash, Traditional | | • | Peace in the Valley - Johnny Cash, Dorsey, Thomas A. | | • | Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? - Johnny Cash, Traditional |
Disc 2
| • | Don't Take Your Guns to Town - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | The Ballad of Boot Hill - Johnny Cash, Perkins, Carl [Rock | | • | The Rebel - Johnny Yuma - Johnny Cash, Fenady, Andrew | | • | The Big Battle - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | When the Roses Bloom Again - Johnny Cash, Carter, A.P. | | • | The Ballad of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash, LaFarge, Peter | | • | The Legend of John Henry's Hammer - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Dark as a Dungeon - Johnny Cash, Travis, Merle | | • | Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash, Dill, Danny | | • | I Got Stripes - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | 25 Minutes to Go - Johnny Cash, Silverstein, Shel | | • | The Wall - Johnny Cash, Howard, Harlan | | • | Busted - Johnny Cash, Howard, Harlan | | • | Bad News - Johnny Cash, Loudermilk, John D. | | • | Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog - Johnny Cash, Clement, Jack | | • | Orange Blossom Special - Johnny Cash, Rouse, Ervin T. | | • | Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash, Cash, June Carter | | • | Understand Your Man - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Jackson - Johnny Cash, Rodgers, Gaby | | • | Blistered - Johnny Cash, Wheeler, Billy Edd | | • | See Ruby Fall - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Cisco Clifton's Fillin' Station - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash, Perkins, Carl [Rock |
Disc 3
| • | Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Cocaine Blues - Johnny Cash, Arnall, T.J. "Red" | | • | San Quentin - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash, Silverstein, Shel | | • | Wanted Man - Johnny Cash, Dylan, Bob | | • | Singing in Vietnam Talking Blues - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Man in Black - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | What Is Truth? - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Flesh and Blood - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Sunday Morning Coming Down - Johnny Cash, Kristofferson, Kris | | • | Oney - Johnny Cash, Chesnut, Jerry | | • | One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash, Kemp, Wayne | | • | Hit the Road and Go - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955) - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | I Will Rock and Roll With You - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | No Expectations - Johnny Cash, Jagger, Mick | | • | (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - Johnny Cash, Jones, Stan | | • | Bull Rider - Johnny Cash, Crowell, Rodney | | • | Highway Patrolman - Johnny Cash, Springsteen, Bruce | | • | After the Ball - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny | | • | Without Love - Johnny Cash, Lowe, Nick | | • | The Last Time - Johnny Cash, Kristofferson, Kris | | • | I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar - Johnny Cash, Cash, Johnny |
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Amazon.com essential recording
The art of Johnny Cash is as traditional and innovative, as expansive, as the 20th century itself--so much so that The Man in Black now stands as an honest-to-God American icon, a living link to the Carter Family and the very origins of modern country music some 70 years ago. His own repertoire has touched upon just about every significant development in the field ever since, and this three-CD, 75-song box set gives an impressive overview of just about all of it: the rockabilly-boogie singles for Sun in the 1950s; his straight-country smashes from the '60s and '70s; the Americana sagas he recorded during the folk revival; the pro-Indian and antiwar protest songs; the legendary live prison sets; and so much more--all of it a compelling testament to the art of simple storytelling and to the expressive power of a unique human voice. While more is far better in this case, the single-CD Sun Years captures the best early Cash available. So while calling this The Essential Johnny Cash is certainly accurate, it's also a huge understatement. Call it, instead, an essential document of 20th-century America. --David Cantwell
Amazon.com
As country music progressed through numerous stages, Cash's music retained the blunt, pared-down chug first displayed on his 1950s Sun hits. His straightforward lyrics, aggressive strumming, and brooding baritone were backed by the rock-solid Tennessee Two: The simple twang of guitarist Luther Perkins and the foundation of bassist Marshall Grant would remain at the core until 1967. Columbia's comprehensive 3 CD set opens with 15 Sun classics including "Hey Porter" and "Folsom Prison Blues," and the middle disc is ripe with stark and vivid songs of rebels and outlaws, such as the ominous "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" and the riveting steel-driving suite "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer." Cash puts his personal stamp on a variety of songwriters, from Merle Travis and Harlan Howard to Dylan, Springsteen, and the Stones. --Marc Greilsamer
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Flat-Topped box set November 14, 2008
There are masters of American music that all generations take to their own. There are beloved composers,of the early part of the 20th century Gerswin, Cole, Copeland, that herald the US popular magic and describe the life and times. The latter half of the century had three artists that will forever remain popular not only popular, but way cool..
and important.
Frank Sinatra crosses 40's to contempory, a legacy of hits and attitude.
Neil Young crosses 60's to contempory, able to write hits and inspire.
And there is
Johhny Cash inovative, involved, and as American as a tugged turkey wishbone at Thanksgiving.
This 3CD set has early SUN recordings, the beginnings of Rockabilly, the post-Elvis 50's hits, the amazing bottom dump guitar of Luther Perkins, the bass of Marshall Grant, the template for C/W and RnR. It has the '60's hits, "Ring of Fire" misses "I Walk the Line", has lesser known C/W top 40 hits,then get's to the Pop top 40 comeback with "Folsom Prison Blues" "A Boy Named Sue" "What is Truth". and the best version of classic Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down". Late '60's was an amazing period for Johnny, a TV show, bunches of hits, happily married, and beloved by all.
This 3 CD set is a good beginning, but all his SUN records are sure to be treasured, his mid '60's hits placed perfectly in the purpose of the times.
 Very Good Compilation ... But Still Comes Up Short In Key Areas November 10, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Before I set down my comments on this 3-disc set I read carefully through the other reviews and while couldn't disagree with the first few 5-star posts, I had made up my own mind that this didn't quite fill the bill for that maximum rating. I had also begun to form the essence of my review when I came to that by Greg Brady, and wouldn't you know it, he essentially (no pun intended) took the words right out of my mouth regarding this so-called "essential" collection. One of at least three on the market purporting to be the essential Johnny Cash collection.
I realize that trying to come up with 75 tracks for an artist with 135 Country hit singles (123 to the end of 1983 - the period covered here), to go along with almost countless memorable album cuts, is a Fool's Errand, and that no matter what the producer ultimately selects, there will always be the "yeah ... but where's such-and-such" reaction.
Even so, it seems that this particular producer tried too hard to evenly split the many styles of this great, unique artist and, in so doing, also made it somewhat uneven by placing several selections out of sequence, and placing them in spots on the discs where we have already started to hear some subtle differences in style. For example, I Got Stripes and Five Feet High And Rising was a double-sided 1959 hit on Columbia, but whereas Five Feet High is at track 26 on Disc 1, I Got Stripes doesn't show up until track 10 on Disc 2. There are several more such examples.
Also, as Greg Brady points out, why not go to 1985 and include his last # 1 hit, Highwayman? But then, of course, we would also have complained about not seeing the only other # 1 left out, There You Go, which hit the top spot in late 1956/early 1957. It's B-side, the pretty good Train Of Love (# 7) is also omitted.
What you do get here are 48 of his 123 hits from 1955 to 1983, including twelve # 1's which spent, in total, 63 weeks at that position, or an average of 5 weeks per hit (that's exactly the number spent at # 1 by There You Go, whereas Highwayman only spent one week there in 1985).
Disappointing by their absence (as far as my opinion goes), in addition to those mentioned above, are: So Doggone Lonesome (# 4 flip of Folsom Prison Blues); Come In Stranger (# 6 1958 flip of Guess Things Happen That Way); Straight A's In Love (# 16 1960); The Matador (# 2 1963); It Ain't Me, Babe (# 4 late 1964 with June Carter Cash); the hilarious political satire The One On The Right Is On The Left (# 2 early 1966); Jackson (# 2 early 1967 with June); Rosanna's Going Wild (# 2 late 1967/early 1968); If I Were A Carpenter (# 2 early 1970 with June); A Thing Called Love (# 2 late 1972 with The Evangel Temple Choir); and Any Old Wind That Blows (# 3 late 1972/early 1973).
Essential is the right word! March 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an absolutely terrific compilation of songs. After Live at Folsom Prison, this is the one Johnny Cash album that you want to own. Three CDs filled with all of Johnny's greatest classics, and terrific recordings of each.
The Essential Johnny Cash 1955 - 1985 August 23, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great gift for any "Johnny Cash" fan.
best set March 11, 2006
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
dont bother with the new 4 disc set, all you need is right here. classic cash without the american recordings. yay!
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