1967 Columbia CS 9478 2-Eye 360 Sound Stereo vinyl release. Vinyl plays very good plus; does not skip. Jacket is whole; ruboff bottom edge; color fade back; no bar code.

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Album Features Artist: Johnny CashFormat: AlbumRelease Year: 1967Record Label: Columbia (USA)Genre: Country Pop, Oldies, Rock 'N' Roll

Track Listing
Side 1

1. Jackson
2. I Walk the Line
3. Understand Your Man
4. Orange Blossom Special
5. The One On the Right Is On the Left

Side 2

6. Ring of Fire
7. It Ain't Me Babe
8. The Ballad of Ira Hayes
9. The Rebel - Johnny Yuma
10. Five Feet High and Rising
11. Don't Take Your Guns to Town

DetailsPlaying Time: 31 min.Contributing Artists: June Carter CashProducer: Frank Jones, Don LawDistributor: ColumbiaRecording Type: StudioRecording Mode: Stereo

Album Notes
Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals); June Carter (vocal); Al Casey (guitar).

This collection catches up with Johnny Cash right after his Sun Records rockabilly period. He moved over to Columbia at the tail end of the 1950s, just when the initial salvo of rock & roll was dying out, responding to their promise of creative freedom. The mostly-'60s hits included here find him embracing that freedom, perhaps nowhere as tellingly as on "Ring of Fire," the June Carter/Merle Kilgore-penned gem in which surreal biblical imagery meets mariachi trumpets in an unlikely but brilliant production.

Cash acknowledges the '60s folk boom with covers of Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe" and Pete La Farge's American Indian protest song "The Ballad of Ira Hayes." An anti-violence message is portrayed with a minimum of didacticism and a maximum of organic poetry on "Don't Take Your Guns to Town." Columbia's GREATEST HITS provides an excellent guide through Johnny Cash's '60s.