Johnny Cash – The Legend (Box Set) (2005)
4CDs | Genre: Country | Release: 2005 | Label: SONY | MP3 320 kbps | 701 MB

JOHNNY CASH;THE LEGEND is easily the most far-reaching collection ever assembled in celebration of the pathfinding work of the “Man in Black.”Singer and songwriter,sinner and Christian,John R.Cash,son of a share- eropper from the dirt-poor,cotten-farming town of Kingsland,Ark.,battled his demons on stages from Folsom Prison to Carnegie Hall.Wielding an acoustic guitar and his patented”boom-chicka-boom”TennesseeTwo-beat,Cash(1932- 2003)essayed a multifarious repertoire that drew from nearly every page of the American Roots Music Songbook.
This four-CD set,covering the years 1955 to 2002 and arranged thematically,commemorates the Golden Anniversary of Cash’s recording career;his debut-on-disc was for the fabled Sun label,one of seven record companies from whose archives this anthology draws in order to paint a many-sided musical portrait of JOHNNY CASH:THE LEGEND.
The majority of the 104 songsherein (28 of them written or co-written by Cash) were made for Columbia,for which he was a best-selling artist from 1958 to 1986;seven selections are previously unreleased.Tracklist:Disc 1-Win, Place and Show: The Hits1 I Walk the Line 2:45
2 There You Go 2:17
3 Home of the Blues 2:40
4 Ballad of a Teenage Queen 2:12
5 Guess Things Happen That Way 1:50
6 The Ways of a Woman in Love 2:16
7 Don’t Take Your Guns to Town 3:03
8 Ring of Fire 2:37
9 The Matador 2:46
10 Understand Your Man 2:43
11 The Ballad of Ira Hayes 4:09
12 Orange Blossom Special 3:07
13 The One on the Right Is on the Left 2:48
14 Rosanna’s Going Wild 1:59
15 Folsom Prison Blues 2:45
16 Daddy Sang Blues 2:21
17 A Boy Named Sue 3:46
18 What Is Truth 2:38
19 Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down 4:07
20 Flesh and Blood 2:37
21 Man in Black 2:52
22 A Thing Called Love 2:33
23 Kate 2:17
24 Oney 3:05
25 Any Old Wind That Blows 2:46
26 One Piece at a Time 4:01
27 (Ghost) Riders in the Sky 3:46 Disc 2-Old Favorites and New1 Hey Porter 2:14
2 Cry, Cry, Cry 2:25
3 Luther Played the Boogie 2:03
4 Get Rhythm 2:14
5 Give My Love to Rose 2:45
6 I Was There When It Happened 2:16
7 Big River 2:32
8 I Still Miss Someone 2:36
9 Pickin’ Time 1:58
10 The Man on the Hill 2:09
11 Five Feet High and Rising 1:47
12 Tennessee Flat-Top Box 2:59
13 I Got Stripes 2:04
14 Troublesome Waters 3:51
15 The Long Black Veil 3:07
16 Dark as a Dungeon 2:28
17 The Wall 2:12
18 25 Minutes to Go 3:12
19 Cocaine Blues 2:51
20 Doin’ My Time previously unreleased 4:13
21 I Will Rock and Roll with You 2:51
22 Without Love 2:30
23 The Big Light 2:41
24 Highway Patrolman 5:21
25 I’m Never Gonna Roam Again previously unreleased 2:34
26 When I’m Gray previously unreleased 3:33
27 Forever Young 6:16 Disc 3-The Great American Songbook1 The Wreck of the Old 97 1:47
2 Rock Island Line 2:11
3 Goodnight Irene 2:40
4 Goodbye, Little Darlin’ 2:15
5 Born to Lose 2:10
6 Walking the Blues 2:13
7 Frankie’s Man, Johnny 2:17
8 Delia’s Gone 3:02
9 In the Jailhouse Now 2:23
10 Waiting for a Train 2:07
11 Casey Jones 3:02
12 The Legend of John Henry’s Hammer 8:26
13 I’ve Been Working on the Railroad previously unreleased 3:26
14 Sweet Betsy from Pike 3:18
15 The Streets of Laredo 3:40
16 Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie 2:28
17 Down in the Valley previously unreleased 3:11
18 Wabash Cannonball 2:40
19 The Great Speckle Bird 2:08
20 Wildwood Flower 2:12
21 Cotton Fields 2:34
22 Pick a Bale O’ Cotton 1:58
23 Old Shep 2:23
24 I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight 2:48
25 I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry 2:39
26 Time Changes Everything 1:48 Disc 4-Family and Friends1 Keep on the Sunny Side (With The Carter Family) 2:16
2 Diamonds in the Rough (With Mother Maybelle Carter) 3:10
3 (There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley (With The Carter Family) 2:48
4 Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)(With The Carter Family) 3:56
5 Another Man Done Gone (With Anita Carter) 2:36
6 Pick the Wildwood Flower (With Mother Maybelle Carter) 2:59
7 Jackson (With June Carter) 2:46
8 If I Were a Carpenter(With June Carter Cash) 3:00
9 Girl from the North Country(With Bob Dylan) 3:42
10 One More Ride(With Marty Stuart) 3:27
11 You Can’t Beat Jesus Christ (With Billy Joe Shaver) 3:39
12 There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang (With Waylon Jennings) 3:17
13 We Oughta Be Ashamed (With Elvis Costello) 2:45
14 Crazy Old Soldier (With Ray Charles) 3:34
15 Silver Haired Daddy of Mine (With Tommy Cash) 2:48
16 Who’s Gene Autry?(With John Carter Cash) 3:51
17 The Night Hank Williams Came to Town (With Waylon Jennings) 3:24
18 I Walk the Lined (Revisited) (With Rodney Crowell) 3:51
19 Highwayman (With Willie Nelson,Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings) 3:03
20 The Wanderer (U2 Starring Johnny Cash) 4:43
21 September When It Comes (With Rosanne Cash) 3:39
22 Tears in the Holston River (With The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) 3:41
23 Far Side Banks of Jordan (With June Carter Cash) 2:42
24 It Takes One to Know Me (With June Carter Cash,Guest Vocal By Carlene Carter) 3:36