Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash [Limited Edition, Original recording remastered] (2002)

It's a great and perhaps impossible challenge to encapsulate the highlights of Johnny Cash's vast musical catalog in a two-CD, 36-song collection like this. Yet, though it barely scratches the surface, 2002's The Essential Johnny Cash--part of a series of compilations and reissues celebrating Cash's 70th birthday--does present three-dozen satisfying and balanced snapshots of some of the Man in Black's most memorable work for the Sun, Columbia, and Mercury labels. Above all else, these 36 selections are wonderful reminders of Cash's rustic eclecticism. Cuts range from '50s Sun rockabilly classics like "Hey Porter" and "I Walk the Line" to '60s country-folk gems like "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and Cash's memorable duet with Bob Dylan on Dylan's "Girl from the North Country." Also included are more recent samplings of Cash's celebrated collaborations, including "Highwayman," which he recorded in 1984 with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson as part of the on-again, off-again supergroup the Highwaymen, and "The Wanderer," a fervent gospel collaboration with U2 that appeared on the band's 1993 album, Zooropa. --Bob Allen

Tracklist

DISC 1
01--Hey Porter.mp3 1.9 MB
02--Cry, Cry, Cry.mp3 2.05 MB
03--I Walk The Line.mp3 2.3 MB
04--Get Rhythm.mp3 1.93 MB
05--There You Go.mp3 2.1 MB
06--Ballard Of A Teenage Queen.mp3 2.04 MB
07--Big River.mp3 2.41 MB
08--Guess Things Happen That Way.mp3 1.57 MB
09--All Over Again.mp3 2.74 MB
10--Don't Take Your Guns To Town.mp3 4.02 MB
11--Five Feet High And Rising.mp3 2.28 MB
12--The Rebel - Johnny Yuma.mp3 2.38 MB
13--Tennessee Flat-Top Box.mp3 4.25 MB
14--I Still Miss Someone.mp3 3.36 MB
15--Ring Of Fire.mp3 3.58 MB
16--The Ballad Of Ira Hayes.mp3 5.09 MB
17--Orange Blossom Special.mp3 4.39 MB
18--Were You There (with the Carter Family).mp3 5.1 MB

DISC2
01--It Ain't Me, Babe (with June Carter Cash).mp3 3.98 MB
02--The One On The Right Is On The Left.mp3 3.74 MB
03--Jackson (with June Carter Cash).mp3 3.39 MB
04--Folsom Prison Blues (Live).mp3 3.98 MB
05--Daddy Sang Bass.mp3 3.51 MB
06--Girl From The North Country (with Bob Dylan).mp3 4.9 MB
07--A Boy Named Sue (Live).mp3 5.4 MB
08--If I Were A Carpenter (with June Carter Cash).mp3 4.27 MB
09--Sunday Morning Coming Down.mp3 5.19 MB
10--Flesh And Blood.mp3 3.66 MB
11--Man In Black.mp3 4.38 MB
12--Ragged Old Flag.mp3 4.46 MB
13--One Piece At A Time.mp3 5.74 MB
14--(Ghost) Riders In The Sky.mp3 5.7 MB
15--Song Of The Patriot (with Marty Robbins).mp3 5.29 MB
16--Highwayman (with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings & Kris Kristofferson).mp3 4.01 MB
17--The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (with Waylon Jennings).mp3 4.91 MB
18--The Wanderer-U2 (starring Johnny Cash).mp3 5.84 MB