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Sings the Ballads of the True West

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Artist
  
Johnny Cash

Producer
  
Don Law

Genre
  
Country music

Release date
  
September 1965

Label
  
Sony Music

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Released
  
Original: September 1965 Re-issued: August 27, 2002

Recorded
  
August 14, 1959 - April 26, 1965

Length
  
Original: 64:52 Re-issue: 68:26

Sings the Ballads of the True West (1965)
  
Everybody Loves a Nut (1966)

Similar
  
Johnny Cash albums, Country music albums

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Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West is a conceptual double album and the 22nd overall album released by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1965 (see 1965 in music). Covering twenty individual songs, the album, as its title suggests, contains various ballads and other songs on topics related to the history of the American Old West. This includes Carl Perkins' "The Ballad of Boot Hill", "Streets of Laredo", and the sole single from the album, "Mr. Garfield", describing the shock of the population after the assassination of President James Garfield. One of the songs, "25 Minutes to Go", would later be performed at Folsom Prison and appear on Cash's famous At Folsom Prison recording in 1968, while the melody of "Streets of Laredo" would be recycled for the song "The Walls of a Prison" featured on Cash's album From Sea to Shining Sea.

Contents

Sings the Ballads of the True West was re-issued in 2002 (see 2002 in music) through Legacy Recordings, with two bonus tracks, one of which is an instrumental version of a track available on the album. The original album was included on the Bear Family box set Come Along and Ride This Train.

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Personnel

  • Johnny Cash - vocals, guitar
  • Luther Perkins - guitar
  • Norman Blake, Jack Clement - acoustic guitar
  • Bob Johnson - 12-string guitar, flute, banjo, mandocello
  • Marshall Grant - bass
  • W.S. Holland - drums
  • Michael N. Kazak - drums
  • Bill Pursell - piano, harpsichord
  • Charlie McCoy - harmonica
  • Mother Maybelle Carter - autoharp
  • The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers - background vocals
  • Charts

    Singles - Billboard (North America)

    Modern Interpretations & Associations

    Baltimore based creative folklore/music ensemble Television Hill have recorded a 6-song concept EP called My Name's Hardin, the title of which pokes fun at Bob Dylan's misspelling of outlaw Wes Hardin's name on his 1967 release John Wesley Harding and paying homage to Dylan's record and Johnny Cash's double concept LP Sings the Ballads of the True West. The EP is a biographical work exploring Wes Hardin's life and draws from Hardin's autobiography, Letters from Prison and an assortment of other biographical and relevant source material.

    Mean as Hell!

    In March, 1966 (see 1966 in music), Columbia released Mean as Hell! : Ballads From The True West, a single LP distillation of Sings the Ballads of the True West. It peaked at #4 on the top country albums chart. It has not been released on CD.

    Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    1Hiawatha's Vision (Mono Version)2:25
    2The Road to Kaintuck (Mono Version)2:43
    3The Shifting - Whispering Sands - Pt I (Mono Version)2:53

    References

    Sings the Ballads of the True West Wikipedia