Now Here's Johnny Cash

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Now Here's Johnny Cash
Studio album by Johnny Cash

Publication
(s)

1961

Label (s) Sun Records

Genre (s)

Country music

Title (number)

12

running time

27:13

occupation
  • Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar

production

Jack Clement , Sam Phillips

Studio (s)

Sun Studio, Memphis, TN

chronology
Now, There Was a Song! Now Here's Johnny Cash The Lure of the Grand Canyon

Now Here's Johnny Cash is the tenth studio album by American country singer Johnny Cash . It was released on October 21, 1961 on Sun Records under the production of Sam Phillips and Jack Clement .

It was after With His Hot and Blue Guitar , Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous , Greatest! and Sings Hank Williams the fifth LP that Sun released with songs by Cash.

Many of the tracks on Now Here's Johnny Cash were previously featured on one of Sun's earliest albums.

Track list

  1. Sugartime (Odis Echols, Charlie Phillips) - 1:48
  2. Down the Street to 301 (Jack Clement) - 2:06
  3. Life Goes On (Cash, Clement) - 2:02
  4. Port of Lonely Hearts (Cash) - 2:36
  5. Cry Cry Cry (Cash) - 2:29
    Appeared on With His Hot and Blue Guitar in 1957 .
  6. My Treasure (Cash) - 1:16
  7. Oh Lonesome Me ( Don Gibson ) - 2:30
  8. Home of the Blues (Cash, Glen Douglas, Vic McAlpin) - 2:43
    First appeared on Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous in 1958 .
  9. So Doggone Lonesome (Cash) - 2:37
    Was released on With His Hot and Blue Guitar .
  10. You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven ( Jim Atkins , Cash, Hoyt Johnson ) - 2:40
    Appeared in 1958 on Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous .
  11. The Story of a Broken Heart ( Sam Phillips ) - 2:11
  12. Hey Porter (Cash) - 2:15
    Was Cash's first single on Sun in 1955.

Bonus tracks from the re-release

On July 29, 2003, the album was re-released with five more tracks. Four of them were just alternate takes of included songs.

  1. I Couldn't Keep from Crying ( Marty Robbins ) - 2:03
  2. Sugartime (Odis Echols, Charlie Phillips) - 1:47
  3. My Treasure (Cash) - 2:19
  4. Oh Lonesome Me (Don Gibson) - 2:31
  5. Home of the Blues (Cash, Glen Douglas, Vic McAlpin) - 2:46

Singles

year title Single charts position
1960 Down the Streets to 301 pop 85
1960 Oh, Lonesome Me Country 13
1960 Oh, Lonesome Me pop 93

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