| Product Summary | | Label: SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT INC | | UPC: 00827969280225 | | Release Date: 8/2/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 63991858 | | Item#: M2FJ24 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. I Walk The Line ~ Johnny Cash |  | | 2. There You Go ~ Johnny Cash | | | 3. Home Of The Blues ~ Johnny Cash | | | 4. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen ~ Johnny Cash | | | 5. Guess Things Happen That Way ~ Johnny Cash | | | 6. Ways Of A Woman In Love, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 7. Don't Take Your Guns To Town ~ Johnny Cash | | | 8. Ring Of Fire ~ Johnny Cash | | | 9. Matador, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 10. Understand Your Man ~ Johnny Cash | | | 11. Ballad Of Ira Hayes, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 12. Orange Blossom Special ~ Johnny Cash | | | 13. One On The Right Is On The Left, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 14. Rosanna's Going Wild ~ Johnny Cash | | | 15. Folsom Prison Blues ~ Johnny Cash | | | 16. Daddy Sang Bass ~ Johnny Cash | | | 17. Boy Named Sue, A ~ Johnny Cash | | | 18. What Is Truth ~ Johnny Cash | | | 19. Sunday Morning Coming Down ~ Johnny Cash | | | 20. Flesh And Blood ~ Johnny Cash | | | 21. Man In Black ~ Johnny Cash | | | 22. Thing Called Love, A ~ Johnny Cash | | | 23. Kate ~ Johnny Cash | | | 24. Oney ~ Johnny Cash | | | 25. Any Old Wind That Blows ~ Johnny Cash | | | 26. One Piece At A Time ~ Johnny Cash | | | 27. Ghost Riders In The Sky ~ Johnny Cash | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Hey Porter ~ Johnny Cash | | | 2. Cry Cry Cry ~ Johnny Cash | | | 3. Luther Played The Boogie ~ Johnny Cash | | | 4. Get Rhythm ~ Johnny Cash | | | 5. Give My Love To Rose ~ Johnny Cash | | | 6. I Was There When It Happened ~ Johnny Cash | | | 7. Big River ~ Johnny Cash | | | 8. I Still Miss Someone ~ Johnny Cash | | | 9. Pickin' Time ~ Johnny Cash | | | 10. Man On The Hill, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 11. Five Feet High And Rising ~ Johnny Cash | | | 12. Tennessee Flat Top Box ~ Johnny Cash | | | 13. I Got Stripes ~ Johnny Cash | | | 14. Troublesome Waters ~ Johnny Cash | | | 15. Long Black Veil, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 16. Dark As A Dungeon ~ Johnny Cash | | | 17. Wall, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 18. 25 Minutes To Go ~ Johnny Cash | | | 19. Cocaine Blues ~ Johnny Cash | | | 20. Doin' My Time ~ Johnny Cash | | | 21. I Will Rock And Roll With You ~ Johnny Cash | | | 22. Without Love ~ Johnny Cash | | | 23. Big LIght, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 24. Highway Patrolman ~ Johnny Cash | | | 25. I'm Never Gonna Roam Again ~ Johnny Cash | | | 26. When I'm Gray ~ Johnny Cash | | | 27. Forever Young ~ Johnny Cash | | Disc 3
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Wreck Of The Old 97, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 2. Rock Island Line ~ Johnny Cash | | | 3. Goodnight Irene ~ Johnny Cash | | | 4. Goodbye Little Darling ~ Johnny Cash | | | 5. Born To Lose ~ Johnny Cash | | | 6. Walkin' The Blues ~ Johnny Cash | | | 7. Frankie's Man, Johnny ~ Johnny Cash | | | 8. Delia's Gone ~ Johnny Cash | | | 9. In The Jailhouse Now ~ Johnny Cash | | | 10. Waiting For A Train ~ Johnny Cash | | | 11. Casey Jones ~ Johnny Cash | | | 12. Legend Of John Henry's Hammer, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 13. I've Been Working On The Railroad ~ Johnny Cash | | | 14. Sweet Betsy From Pike ~ Johnny Cash | | | 15. Streets Of Laredo, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 16. Bury Me Not On The Lone Prarie ~ Johnny Cash | | | 17. Down In The Valley ~ Johnny Cash | | | 18. Wabash Cannonball ~ Johnny Cash | | | 19. Great Speckled Bird, The ~ Johnny Cash | | | 20. Wildwood Flower ~ Johnny Cash | | | 21. Cotton Fields ~ Johnny Cash | | | 22. Pick A Bale O'Cotton ~ Johnny Cash | | | 23. Old Shep ~ Johnny Cash | | | 24. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight ~ Johnny Cash | | | 25. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ~ Johnny Cash | | | 26. Time Changes Everything ~ Johnny Cash | | Disc 4
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Keep on the Sunny Side - (with The Carter Family) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 2. Diamonds in the Rough - (with The Carter Family) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 3. Peace in the Valley, (There'll Be) - (with The Carter Family) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 4. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord - (with The Carter Family) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 5. Another Man Done Gone - (with Anita Carter) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 6. Pick the Wildwood Flower - (with Mother Maybelle Carter) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 7. Jackson - (with June Carter) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 8. If I Were a Carpenter - (with June Carter) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 9. Girl From the North Country - (with Bob Dylan) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 10. One More Ride - (with Marty Staurt) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 11. You Can't Beat Jesus Christ - (with Billy Joe Shaver) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 12. There Ain't No Good Chain Gang - (with Waylon Jennings) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 13. We Ought to Be Ashamed - (with Elvis Costello) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 14. Crazy Old Soldier - (with Ray Charles) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 15. Silver Haired Daddy of Mine - (with Tommy Cash) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 16. Who's Gene Autry - (with John Carter Cash) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 17. Night Hank Williams Came to Town, The - (with Waylon Jennings) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 18. I Walk the Line Revisited - (with Rodney Crowell) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 19. Highwayman - (with Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson/Kris Kristofferson) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 20. Wanderer, The - (with U2) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 21. September When It Comes - (with Rosanne Cash) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 22. Tears in the Holston River - (with Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 23. Far Side Banks of Jordan - (with June Carter Cash) ~ Johnny Cash | | | 24. It Takes One to Know Me - (with June Carter Cash/Carlene Carter/John Carter Cash) ~ Johnny Cash | |
The man, the icon, the legend. For decades, Johnny Cash has been the definition of boldness and has transcended beyond the controversial boundaries most artists have dared to cross. The Legend includes over a hundred classic tracks from the legend himself on four discs, which features the songs Ring of Fire, Man In Black, I Got Stripes, Without Love, Walking the Blues, Casey Jones, Time Changes Everything, Another Man Done Gone, Highwayman, I Walk The Line, Diamonds In The Rough, and many more.
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); Waylon Jennings, Elvis Costello, Billy Joe Shaver, Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar); Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash, Ray Charles (vocals); Bob Johnson (guitar, mandocello); Dave Edmunds, Doc Watson, Jack Clement, Jerry Hensley, Jerry Reed, Marty Stewart, Merle Watson, Randy Scruggs, Ray Edenton, Billy Lee Riley, Billy Sanford, Luther Perkins, Bob Wootton, Carl Perkins (guitar); Don Helms, Pete Drake (steel guitar); Norman Blake (dobro); Mother Maybelle Carter (autoharp); Rufus Long (flute); Charlie McCoy (harmonica); Jo-El Sonnier (accordion); Floyd Cramer, Ben Tench, Bill Pursell (piano); Larry Butler , Hargus "Pig" Robbins (keyboards); Brian Eno (synthesizer); Nick Lowe (bass guitar); Kenny Malone, Buddy Harman (drums); Flood (loops). | | There have been in the neighborhood of ten CD box sets devoted to Johnny Cash, released on Columbia, Bear Family, and Collectables (this does not count overseas releases by Sony, or budget-line repackagings of three albums into one box set). Since 2000 there have been roughly 15 new major-label compilations, and that number balloons to nearly 90 comps if various and sundry two-fers, budget-line releases, and imports are factored into the equation. Add to that number the three major reissue campaigns -- Columbia/Legacy's expanded reissues of proper '60s and '70s records, Varese's series of Sun LP re-releases, and Mercury's revival of his largely overlooked '80s albums for the label -- plus the CDs released in the '80s and '90s that are still in print -- and there's not only an enormous amount of Johnny Cash music on the market, but every phase of his career is extraordinarily well-documented and easily available. | | With this in mind, it's initially hard to see the purpose of Columbia/Legacy's 2005 four-disc box set, The Legend. Sure, it's the first set to run the entire length of his career, from 1955 to 2002, but that statement in itself is a little misleading, suggesting that there's a significant sampling from his Rick Rubin-produced comeback recordings for American Records in the '90s, but that's not the case. In fact, there's nothing from those records, although there is a cut from the 1994 Red Hot Country album and a smattering of other tracks he recorded in the last decade of his life included among the seven previously unreleased tracks on this 104-track box. So, this winds up being yet another repackaging of Cash's Columbia recordings, buttressed by several Sun standards ("Hey Porter," "Cry, Cry, Cry," "Luther Played the Boogie," "Get Rhythm," etc.). While this is familiar, this is by no means bad, since the music is not only good, but it's presented in an interesting manner, with each disc following a theme that's a little looser than Columbia's previous box, Love, God, Murder. Here, the first disc is called "Win, Place and Show -- The Hits," the second is "Old Favorites and New," the third is "The Great American Songbook," and the fourth is "Family and Friends." Although it's unclear what exactly separates the "hits" from the "favorites" -- if "Cry, Cry, Cry," "Get Rhythm," "Big River," and "I Got Stripes," all Top 15 country singles but all on the second disc, weren't hits, then what constitutes a hit? -- it seems that the former tends to favor funnier, poppier singles like "Ballad of a Teenage Queen," "A Boy Named Sue," and "The One on the Right Is on the Left," while the latter leans toward grittier numbers and standards that never charted (but even that isn't quite right, since the dark humor of "25 Minutes to Go" is on the second disc). | | In any case, both of the first two discs are good listens, filled with many of Cash's biggest hits and best songs. The third disc is similarly strong, featuring several of Cash's best readings of such standards -- recorded anywhere from 1955 to 1980, with most dating from the late '50s and '60s -- as "The Wreck of the Old 97," "Rock Island Line," "Delia's Gone," "In the Jailhouse Now," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," and "Time Changes Everything." However, despite a few good moments, such as his duet with Bob Dylan on "Girl from the North Country" from Nashville Skyline, the fourth disc isn't quite so compelling, largely because Johnny Cash is such an overpowering presence on record that he never made for a good duet partner. But even with the fourth disc being kind of weak, the other three are strong, which means this rivals Columbia's previous box set, 1992's The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 as the best multi-disc retrospective of Cash's weighty career. That doesn't mean it's perfect -- that fourth disc won't be played much, some may gripe that it doesn't contain much from the '80s or '90s, and some big songs like "Five Feet High and Rising" and "The Rebel Johnny Yuma" are MIA -- but Cash recorded so much and so much of it was not only good, but popular, that it's hard to whittle it down to one set, even if it does stretch out over four discs. | | The Legend does a very good job presenting the biggest and best of the prime of Johnny Cash's career -- enough to make it a good comprehensive introduction for the curious who want more than what the many, many very good single- or double-disc sets have to offer, enough to make it a nice overview for the casual fan who wants one set with much of his best in one place. But if you already have one or two Johnny Cash comps in your collection, think long and hard before picking this up, and if you have five, ten, or 20 Cash discs, you don't even need to consider adding this to your collection: you have almost all of this already and the packaging, while nice, isn't enough to make this necessary. [The Legend was also released in a deluxe edition, packaged as a large, hardcover book and containing a bonus CD and DVD.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine | | There have been in the neighborhood of ten CD box sets devoted to Johnny Cash, released on Columbia, Bear Family, and Collectables (this does not count overseas releases by Sony, or budget-line repackagings of three albums into one box set). Since 2000 there have been roughly 15 new major-label compilations, and that number balloons to nearly 90 comps if various and sundry two-fers, budget-line releases, and imports are factored into the equation. Add to that number the three major reissue campaigns -- Columbia/Legacy's expanded reissues of proper '60s and '70s records, Varese's series of Sun LP re-releases, and Mercury's revival of his largely overlooked '80s albums for the label -- plus the CDs released in the '80s and '90s that are still in print -- and there's not only an enormous amount of Johnny Cash music on the market, but every phase of his career is extraordinarily well-documented and easily available. | | With this in mind, it's initially hard to see the purpose of Columbia/Legacy's 2005 four-disc box set, The Legend. Sure, it's the first set to run the entire length of his career, from 1955 to 2002, but that statement in itself is a little misleading, suggesting that there's a significant sampling from his Rick Rubin-produced comeback recordings for American Records in the '90s, but that's not the case. In fact, there's nothing from those records, although there is a cut from the 1994 Red Hot Country album and a smattering of other tracks he recorded in the last decade of his life included among the seven previously unreleased tracks on this 104-track box. So, this winds up being yet another repackaging of Cash's Columbia recordings, buttressed by several Sun standards ("Hey Porter," "Cry, Cry, Cry," "Luther Played the Boogie," "Get Rhythm," etc.). While this is familiar, this is by no means bad, since the music is not only good, but it's presented in an interesting manner, with each disc following a theme that's a little looser than Columbia's previous box, Love, God, Murder. Here, the first disc is called "Win, Place and Show -- The Hits," the second is "Old Favorites and New," the third is "The Great American Songbook," and the fourth is "Family and |
Producer: Sam Phillips; Jack Clement; Don Law; Frank Jones; Bob Johnson; Johnny Cash |
| | Artist Overview | | Johnny Cash was part rockabilly rebel, part campfire storyteller, part outlaw in black. Cash made country and rockabilly history on the Sun label in the 1950s. During the '60s, the ruggedly charismatic Cash rose to superstardom, ending the decade with both his marriage to June Carter and his own television show. In the '90s, Cash began his highly successful and acclaimed AMERICAN RECORDINGS series, reaching a new audience with an amazingly diverse set of songs, ranging from traditional tunes to alternative rock covers. With his lean, angular sound and hearty, passionate baritone, Cash forged one of the most unique styles in all of popular music, one that delved into gospel, folk, and rock, but also remained the essence of country music. Four months after his wife died, Johnny Cash passed away on September 12, 2003. And in 2005, the Oscar-nominated biopic WALK THE LINE brought Cash's music and legend to his largest audience yet. |
| | Compilation Appearances |
| | Associated Artists and Works | | Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Cash From Chaos ~ Artists, Various | | Dressed In Black: A Tribute To Johnny Cash ~ Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Boxcar Willie | | It's All In The Family ~ Carter, June | | Carter, June | | Carter, June | | It's All in the Family ~ Cash, June Carter | | Cash, June Carter | | Cash, June Carter | | Dogg, Snoop | | Jonboy Langford & The Pine Vall | | Live At the Louisiana Hayride ~ Jones, George | | Langford, Jon | | Langford, Jonboy | | Johnny Cash's America (Sdtk) ~ Original Soundtrack | | Perkins, Carl | | The Complete Million Dollar Quartet ~ Presley, Elvis | | Snoop Dogg | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | A Tribute to the Legendary Man in Black: Johnny Ca ~ Various Artists | | Dressed In Black: A Tribute To Johnny Cash ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | A Tribute To Johnny Cash ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | We the People ~ Various Artists | | Sing Like Cash: Perform The Songs Of Johnny Cash ~ Various Artists | | The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Johnny Cash Remixed ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/16/2005 | | Original Release Date : 2005 | | Catalog ID : 92802 | | Label : Legacy Recordings | | Number of Discs : 4 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00827969280225 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (No. 985, p.82)
- 4.5 out of 5 stars - "...even without his astonishing final chapter, this is a feast of Cash."Spin (p.107)
- "[T]his four-disc box has all the great old stuff, plus a sprinkling from his Rick Rubin-produced renaissance." Uncut (p.132)
- 5 stars out of 5 - "Prolific, restless, ambitious and contradictory, Cash became a genre unto himself, swerving from rockabilly to gospel, drug-addled outlawry to staunch moralism, homespun folk to grand Nashville productions." |
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