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The records that established Johnny Cash as one of the greatest American singer songwriters are his first for Sun and Columbia Records, the best part of which is included here. From Southern gospel and country music, all the way through to blues and rockabilly, he was the first rock giant to draw mainly from the European-American tradition - unlike his contemporaries and friends Elvis Presley or Jerry Lee Lewis who drew mainly from the African-American repertoire. Bruno Blum comments on the course of this prolific, born storyteller, a musical incarnation of the Wild West myth. Album Tracks 1. You're My Baby 2. Hey Porter 3. Cry, Cry, Cry 4. Port of Lonely Hearts 5. Folsom Prison Blues 6. So Doggone Lonesome 7. Luther Played the Boogie 8. I Walk the Line 9. Get Rhythm' 10. Train of Love 11. There You Go 12. Don't Make Me Go 13. Next in Line 14. Home of the Blues 15. Give My Love to Rose 16. Rock Island Line 17. Wreck of the Old '97 18. Doin' My Time 19. Country Boy 20. If the Good Lord's Willing 21. Was There When It Happened 22. Remember Me (I'm the One That Loves You) 23. Big River 24. Ballad of a Teenage Queen 1. Guess Things Happen That Way 2. Come in Stranger 3. Katy Too 4. Thanks a Lot 5. It's Just About Time 6. Just Thought You'd Like to Know 7. I Forgot to Remember to Forget 8. Suppertime 9. It Was Jesus (Who Was It) 10. Troubadour 11. That's All Over 12. Frankie's Man, Johnny 13. One More Ride 14. Pickin' Time 15. Don't Take Your Guns to Town 16. I'd Rather Die Young 17. Sheperd of My Heart 18. Snow in His Hair 19. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 20. I Call Him 21. Old Account 22. He'll Be a Friend 23. It Could Be You (Instead of Him) 24. You Dreamer You 1. I Got Stripes 2. Five Feet High and Rising 3. Hank and Joe and Me 4. Caretaker 5. Clementine 6. Want
