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Released
  
April 13, 1987

Artist
  
Johnny Cash

Label
  
PolyGram

Genres
  
Country music, Rockabilly

Length
  
32:37

Release date
  
13 April 1987

Producer
  
Jack Clement

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Recorded
  
September 1986 - January 1987

Johnny Cash is Coming to Town (1987)
  
Classic Cash Hall of Fame Series (1988)

Similar
  
Johnny Cash albums, Country music albums

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Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town is the 73rd album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1987, and his first for Mercury Records. It was re-released in 2003, paired with Boom Chicka Boom on a single CD. "Sixteen Tons" was previously a hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford, "The Big Light" is an Elvis Costello song from his album King of America, released the previous year and "Let Him Roll" is from Guy Clark's debut, Old No. 1. The album reached #36 on the country charts, while the only released single, "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town", peaked at #43.

Contents

"Ballad of Barbara" is a rerecording of a track that had been a hit single for Cash in the early 1970s. A number of tracks leftover from the album's recording sessions would later surface on Cash's final Mercury album, The Mystery of Life, released in 1991.

Personnel

  • Johnny Cash: vocals, guitar
  • Waylon Jennings: vocals on "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town"
  • Jim Soldi: lead and acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Marty Stuart: lead and acoustic guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Pete Wade: lead guitar
  • Bob Wootton: lead guitar
  • Joey Miskulin: lead guitar, acoustic bass, backing vocals, keyboards
  • Jack Clement: acoustic guitar, dobro, Jews harp, kazoo
  • Mike Elliot: acoustic guitar
  • Jimmy Tittle: electric bass, backing vocals
  • Joe Allen, Michael Rhodes: electric bass
  • Roy Huskey, Jr.: acoustic bass
  • W.S. "Fluke" Holland: drums
  • Kenny Malone: percussion
  • Jack Hale Jr.: horns, keyboards
  • Bob Lewin: horns, keyboards
  • Jay Patten: horns
  • Earl Poole Ball: piano
  • Charles Cochrane: piano, keyboards
  • Lloyd Green: steel guitar
  • Stuart Duncan, Mark O'Connor, Vassar Clements: fiddle
  • Paco: harmonica
  • June Carter and The Carter Family (June Carter Cash, Helen Carter, Anita Carter, Carlene Carter), Cinday Cash-Stuart, Bernard Peyton: backing vocals
  • Charlie Williams: announcer voice on "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town"
  • Additional Personnel

  • Produced by Jack Clement
  • Assistant producer: David Ferguson
  • Recorded at the Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa
  • Engineers: Rich Adler (chief engineer and technical director), David Ferguson
  • Mixing engineers: Dave Ferguson (all except "Heavy Metal...") and Rich Adler ("Heavy Metal...")
  • Executive producer: Joey Miskulin
  • Mastering: Glenn Meadows, Masterfonics
  • Production manager: Coley Coleman
  • Linear notes: John Lomax III
  • Eyes courtesy: Dr. Marie Kelly, Dr. Burkett Nelson
  • Photography: Slick Lawson
  • Art design: Virginia Team
  • Design: Jerry Joyner, Joe Rogers
  • Songs

    1The Big Light2:42
    2The Ballad of Barbara4:22
    3I'd Rather Have You3:11

    References

    Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Wikipedia