The Complete Original Sun Singles (CD)

Johnny Cash was part rockabilly rebel, part campfire storyteller, part outlaw in black. Cash made country and rockabilly history on the Sun label in the 1950s. During the '60s, the ruggedly charismatic Cash rose to superstardom, ending the decade with both his marriage to June Carter and his own television show. In the '90s, Cash began his highly successful and acclaimed AMERICAN RECORDINGS series, reaching a new audience with an amazingly diverse set of songs, ranging from traditional tunes to alternative rock covers. With his lean, angular sound and hearty, passionate baritone, Cash forged one of the most unique styles in all of popular music, one that delved into gospel, folk, and rock, but also remained the essence of country music. Four months after his wife died, Johnny Cash passed away on September 12, 2003. And in 2005, the Oscar-nominated biopic WALK THE LINE brought Cash's music and legend to his largest audience yet.

• Category:  Music  »  Country  »  Outlaw Country
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: September 21, 1999
• Label: Varese Vintage
• UPC: 030206605624
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106661724
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #131498 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #88287 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #248 in Outlaw Country (See Top 100 Outlaw Country Bestsellers)

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Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); Luther Perkins (guitar); Marshall Grant (bass).

Additional personnel: The Gene Lowery Singers (background vocals).

Recorded at Sun Studios, Memphis, Tennessee between 1955 and 1958.

Includes liner notes by Allen J. Wiener.

The material included on this indispensable two-disc set makes up one of the cornerstones of country music. The raw, gritty sound of Johnny Cash had few precedents in country, other than honky-tonk heroes Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb. In fact, Cash's seminal 1950s recordings for Memphis's groundbreaking Sun label, simultaneously redefined country and invented rockabilly, thereby establishing a kind of post-honky-tonk sound. Even more personal in his vocal delivery than Tubb and more emotionally direct than Williams, Cash expressed the sentiments of the common man in language at once plain and casually artful, like a down-home Shakespeare armed with a percussive acoustic guitar.

All the high points of the Sun years are hit here--the grim resignation of "Guess Things Happen That Way," the idiosyncratic devotional statement of "I Walk the Line," the sociopath's lament "Folsom Prison Blues," and so on down the line. The minimalist sound of Cash's backing group matches the lean, honest sentiments and style of the songs every step of the way, giving a lesson in the virtues of economy.

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