The Best of Johnny Cash’s American Recordings
I know it’s been awhile between posts, but I just had to share this single-CD mix I culled from Johnny Cash’s five American Recordings albums, featuring original compositions, traditional songs, and covers of songs originally written and recorded by artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, Neil Diamond, Nine Inch Nails, U2, Depeche Mode, and more. This is pure gold, and it makes me sad to know there won’t be a sixth album in the series.
Here’s the track listing for my own personal “best of” album:
American Recordings
1. Delia’s Gone
2. Drive On
3. Down There by the Train
American II: Unchained
4. Country Boy
5. I’ve Been Everywhere
6. I’ve Never Picked Cotton
American III: Solitary Man
7. I Won’t Back Down
8. Solitary Man
9. One
10. Wayfaring Stranger
11. I’m Leaving Now
12. Country Trash
American IV: The Man Comes Around
13. The Man Comes Around
14. Hurt
15. Hung My Head
16. Personal Jesus
17. Tear Stained Letter
18. Give My Love to Rose
American V: A Hundred Highways
19. God’s Gonna Cut You Down
20. Like the 309
21. Further On Up the Road
What do you think? What’d I miss (and which tracks would you sacrifice to make room)?
SADFASFA, and 
juanjoam1202 6:26 pm on April 29, 2010 Permalink |
The version Cash did in the “Hurt” song is just simply awesome, one of the best time in the history of the music.
SADFASFA 8:43 am on July 21, 2010 Permalink |
YOU FORGOT RİNG OF FİRE AND WALK THE LINE
BUT ITS A GOOD LİST THX 
Brian Sawyer 8:49 am on July 21, 2010 Permalink |
Also great songs, of which he had many, but neither “Ring of Fire” nor “Walk the Line” were part of his American Recordings.