Music · 04/21/2020
“I Wish I Was Crazy Again”, song written by Bob McDill, was recorded by Johnny Cash And Waylon Jennings for the Columbia label, there was a first recording on April 21, 1976, without Waylon, in House Of Cash, Hendersonville, TN In the same session, “City Jail” and “Far side banks of Jordan” were also recorded. Johnny was accompanied at the recording session by: Jerry Hensley (guitar), Jack Routh (guitar), Bob Wooton (guitar), Marshall Grant (bass), WS Holland (drums), Larry McCoy (piano). The fi
Music · 02/14/2020
"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a cowboy-styled country/western song written in 1948 by American songwriter, film and television actor Stan Jones.
The tune sounds similar to "Spancil Hill" (traditional Irish folk song by Michael Considine, Irish emigrant to the United States in the 1870s).
A number of versions were crossover hits on the pop charts in 1949, the most successful being by Vaughn Monroe.The title has been written as "Ghost Riders", "Ghost Riders in the Sky", and "A
Music · 11/14/2019
Johnny Cash performs the song “Sixteen Tons” on the album “Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town” Released on the Mercury label in 1987.
Travis recorded the song for the first time on August 8, 1946. But the best-known version is the one that Ernie Ford recorded in 1955 for the Capitol label. I reached number one on December 17, 1955.
Music · 11/14/2019
“Man in Black” (or “The Man in Black”) is a protest song written and recorded by singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, originally released on his 1971 album of the same name. Cash himself was known as “The Man in Black” for his distinctive style of on-stage costuming.
The lyrics are an after-the-fact explanation of this with the entire song as a protest statement against the treatment of poor people by wealthy politicians, mass incarceration, and the war in Vietnam. In the intro to his first performa
Music · 11/14/2019
Song written by Marshall Grant, was recorded on March 1, 1967, by Johnny Cash & June Carter, for the Columbia label, with the production of Don Law, was released on May 27, 1967. In the lists of US Country Tracks chart, the song arrived at number # 6.
The song was included in the twenty-fourth studio album of Johnny Cash, Carryin ‘on with Johnny Cash and June Carter (Columbia 1967), was recorded between January 11, 1967 – March 19, 1967, and was released in August 1967. In the lists of Country
Music · 11/14/2019
Song written by Wayne Kemp, was recorded by Johnny Cash, for the Columbia label on March 5, 1976, with the production of Charlie Bragg & Don Davis, was released in April 1976. On May 29, 1976, it would reach number # 1 on the US Hot Country Songs charts, for two weeks in a row, on June 19 it would also reach number # 1 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks lists. It would be his seventeenth number # 1 and last in solitary of his career, in 1985 he would get another number one with the Highwayman ba
Music · 11/14/2019
Song written by Hal Bynum & Dave Kirby, was recorded by Johnny Cash with Waylon Jennings, for the Columbia label, recorded on July 6, 1976, with the production of Larry Butler, the song was released on May 20, 1978, at the lists of US Hot Country Songs, arrived at number # 2, and # 5 in the lists of Canadian RPM Country Tracks.
The song was included in Cash’s 57th studio album, I Would Like to See You Again (Columbia 1978), the album was recorded between July 6, 1976 – October 4, 1977, and was
Music · 11/13/2019
Song written by John Stewart, recorded for the first time at the beginning of 1987, by John Stewart (Cypress Records 1987), Rosanne Cash recorded it a few months later for the Columbia label, with the production of Rodney Crowell, was released in July 1988, on November 12, 1988, reached number # 1 on the lists of US Hot Country Singles, in the lists of Canadian RPM Country Tracks reached the number # 2. It was the tenth number one of Rosanne’s career.
The song was included in Rosanne’s sixth st
Music · 10/10/2018
"Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson that was recorded in 1969 by Ray Stevens before becoming a number one hit for Johnny Cash.
he biggest success for the song came from the Johnny Cash performance, which had been taped live at the Ryman Auditorium during a taping of The Johnny Cash Show as part of a "Ride This Train" segment, with filmed background visuals showing a down and out wanderer roaming around the Public Square area of Shelbyville, Tennessee. Cash intro
Music · 10/06/2018
Song written by Johnny Cash, and recorded by him, on October 6, 1961, for the Columbia label, was released in December 1961, The song reached the 11th position of the USA country charts. But the version of Rosanne Cash , would be the most successful, The song would reach number one on the country charts on February 13, 1988.