I Walk the Line (Album)

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I walk the line
Studio album by Johnny Cash

Publication
(s)

1964

admission

June 13, 1963-5. March 1964

Label (s) Columbia Records

Genre (s)

Country music

Title (number)

12

occupation
  • Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar
  • Bob Johnson, guitar
  • Don Helms, steel guitar
  • Karl Garvin, mariachi trumpet
  • Bill McElhiney, mariachi trumpet
  • Rufus Long, flute

production

Don Law, Frank Jones

chronology
The Christmas Spirit I walk the line Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian

I Walk the Line is the 18th studio album by the American country singer Johnny Cash . It was released in May 1964 on Columbia Records under the production of Don Law and Frank Jones.

The album was Columbia Records' attempt to capitalize on previous Cash hits on Sun Records . Cash therefore re-recorded eight hits from his Sun era, including I Walk the Line , which became the album's title track.

Track list

  1. " I Walk the Line " (Cash)
  2. "Bad News" ( John D. Loudermilk )
  3. " Folsom Prison Blues " (Cash)
  4. " Give My Love to Rose " (Cash)
  5. "Hey Porter" (Cash)
  6. " I Still Miss Someone " (Johnny Cash, Ray Cash)
  7. "Understand Your Man" (Cash)
  8. " Wreck of the Old 97 " (Cash, Bob Johnson, Norman Blake )
  9. "Still in Town" ( Harlan Howard , Hank Cochran)
  10. " Big River " (Cash)
  11. "Goodbye Little Darlin 'Goodbye" ( Gene Autry , Johnny Marvin)
  12. "Troublesome Waters" ( Maybelle Carter , Dixie Dean)

Cash originally recorded the following tracks for Sun: I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Give My Love to Rose, Hey Porter, Wreck of the Old 97, Big River and Goodbye Little Darlin 'Goodbye . All songs had appeared on Sun albums and as singles (with the exception of Wreck of the Old 97 , which had not been released as a single). I Still Miss Someone is the remake of a song that first appeared on The Fabulous Johnny Cash in 1959. The new songs were Bad News , Understand Your Man , Still in Town and Troublesome Waters .

Chart successes

The album reached number one on the country albums charts and at the same time also number 53 on the pop charts. The single Unterstand Your Man became a number 1 hit on Billboard Country Songs . Lyrically and musically, the song is strongly based on Bob Dylan's folk song Don't Think Twice, It's All Right , which Cash recorded the following year for his album Orange Blossom Special .

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