Johnny Cash - With His Hot and Blue Guitar
Johnny Cash - vocals, acoustic guitar [click here to see more vinyl featuring Johnny Cash]
The Tennessee Two :
- Luther Perkins - electric guitar
- Marshall Grant - bass
1 LP, standard sleeve
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : unspecified
Label : ORG Music
Original Label : Sun
Recorded September 1954 – August 4, 1957
Engineered by Sam Phillips
Produced by Cary E. Mansfield, Bill Dahl
Remastered by Dan Hersch
Originally released in 1957
Reissued in 2014
Tracks :
Side A:
- The Rock Island Line
- I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
- Country Boy
- If the Good Lord's Willing
- Cry, Cry, Cry
- Remember Me
Side B:
- So Doggone Lonesome
- I Was there When It Happened
- I Walk the Line
- The Wreck of Old '97
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Doin' My Time
Reviews :
"Johnny Cash's first album, released on Sun in 1957, is a little more folkloric and traditional 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 is 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." AllMusic Review by Richie Unterberger
Ratings :
AllMusic 4,5/5 , Discogs 4,41/5