About this product

Product Identifiers

ProducerFrank Jones, Jack Routh, Earl Poole Ball, Jack Clement, Don Davis, Johnny Cash, Don Law, Nick Lowe, Sam Phillips, Charlie Bragg, Brian Ahern, Larry Butler, Bob Johnston

Record LabelSony Music Distribution

UPC0074646555729

eBay Product ID (ePID)7050206693

Product Key Features

Era1960s, 1950s, 1980s, 1970s

Run Time12551 Sec

Release Year1998

FormatCD

FeaturesCompilation, Studio & Live

GenrePop, Rock, Country

TypeAlbum, Box Set

StyleRelaxation, Spiritual, Traditional Country, Rockabilly

ArtistJohnny Cash

Release TitleEssential Johnny Cash 1955-1983

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs3

Guest ArtistDave Edmunds, The Carter Family, Nick Lowe, The Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, June Carter Cash, Ricky Skaggs, The Jordanaires

Number of Tracks75

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

GuitarJack Routh, Jerry Hensley, Dave Edmunds, Johnny Western, Jimmy Capps, Norman Blake, Dave Kirby, James Burton, Bob Wootton, Billy Strange, Tommy Allsup, Billy Sanford, Jack Clement, Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart, Martin Belmont, Pete Wade, Luther Perkins, Bob Johnson, Tim Goodman, Red Lane, Brian Ahern, Ray Edenton, Sid Manker

BassRoy M. "Junior" Husky, Marshall Grant, Nick Lowe, Joseph Allen, Floyd Chance, Jerry Sheff

Reviews"...folk songs, gospel, bluegrass, Wild West ballads, rockabilly, and heartfelt odes to both the counterculture AND the flag...The box's unifying factor is, of course, Cash's voice, a rich, remarkable instrument..." - Rating: A-, "...Like Bo Diddley, another minimalist who improves with time, Cash gains monumentality as one spare track builds off another toward infinity....he's certain to be numbered among the century's great folksingers..." - Rating: A, "...a dream come true for his fans....If Elvis is the King, Cash is the Knight (in black, of course)...", "...Throughout, Cash's delivery carries the ring of truth...Cash's songs have an accessibility and believability seldom found, even among country's 'new traditionalists'...", Ranked #5 in the Village Voice's List of the 10 Best Reissues of 1992.

VocalsJohnny Cash, The Carter Family

KeyboardsGlen D. Hardin, Larry Butler

PercussionMark Morris

DrumsJ.M. Van Eaton, Irv Kluger, Buddy Harman, Pete Thomas, Morris Palmer, Jerry Carrigan, Hal Blaine, w.S. Holland