Sings the Ballads of the True West

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Sings the Ballads of the True West
Sings the Ballads of the True West cover
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released Original: September 1965
Re-issued: August 27, 2002
Recorded August 14, 1959 - April 26, 1965
Genre Country
Length Original: 64:50
Re-issue: 68:25
Label Columbia
Producer Don Law, Frank Jones
Professional reviews
Johnny Cash chronology
Orange Blossom Special
(1965)		 Sings the Ballads of the True West
(1965)		 Everybody Loves a Nut
(1966)

Sings the Ballads of the True West is a conceptual double album and the twenty-first album released by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1965 (see 1965 in music). Covering twenty individual songs, the album, as its title suggests, contains various ballads and other songs on topics related to the history of the American Old West. This includes Carl Perkins' "The Ballad of Boot Hill", "Streets of Laredo", and the sole single from the album, "Mr. Garfield", describing the shock of the population after the assassination of President James Garfield. One of the songs, "25 Minutes to Go", would later be performed at Folsom Prison and appear on Cash's famous At Folsom Prison recording in 1968. Sings the Ballads of the True West was re-issued in 2002 (see 2002 in music) through Legacy Recordings, with two bonus tracks, one of which is an instrumental version of a track available on the album.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All tracks composed by Johnny Cash; except where indicated

  1. "Hiawatha's Vision" – 2:25
  2. "The Road to Kaintuck" (June Carter) – 2:43
  3. "The Shifting Whispering Sands, Part I" (Jack V.C. Gilbert, Mary Margaret Hadler) – 2:54
  4. "The Ballad of Boot Hill" (Carl Perkins) – 3:48
  5. "I Ride an Old Paint" (Traditional) – 2:58
  6. "Hardin Wouldn't Run" – 4:19
  7. "Mr. Garfield" (Ramblin' Jack Elliott) – 4:35
  8. "Streets of Laredo" (Traditional) – 3:39
  9. "Johnny Reb" (Merle Kilgore) – 2:50
  10. "A Letter from Home" (Maybelle Carter, Dearest Dean) – 2:35
  11. "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie" (Traditional) – 2:26
  12. "Mean as Hell" – 3:07
  13. "Sam Hall" (Tex Ritter) – 3:15
  14. "25 Minutes to Go" (Shel Silverstein) – 3:14
  15. "The Blizzard" (Harlan Howard) – 3:53
  16. "Sweet Betsy from Pike" (Jimmie Driftwood) – 3:57
  17. "Green Grow the Lilacs" (Traditional) – 2:47
  18. "Stampede" (Peter La Farge) – 4:01
  19. "The Shifting Whispering Sands, Part II" (Jack Gilbert, Mary Hadler) – 2:28
  20. "Reflections" – 2:58

[edit] Bonus tracks

  1. "Rodeo Hand" (Peter La Farge) – 2:27
  2. "Stampede" (Peter La Farge) – 1:07

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1965 "Mr. Garfield" Country Singles 15

[edit] Mean as Hell

In March, 1966 (see 1966 in music), Columbia released Mean as Hell, a single LP distillation of Sings the Ballads of the True West. It peaked at #4 on the top country albums chart. It has not been released on CD.

Mean as Hell
Mean as Hell cover
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released March 1966
Recorded August 14, 1959 - April 26, 1965
Genre Country
Length 37:23
Label Columbia
Producer Don Law, Frank Jones
Professional reviews

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Shifting Whispering Sands"
  2. "I Ride an Old Paint"
  3. "The Road to Kaintuck"
  4. "A Letter from Home"
  5. "Mean as Hell"
  6. "25 Minutes to Go"
  7. "Mr. Garfield"
  8. "The Blizzard"
  9. "Streets of Laredo"
  10. "Sweet Betsy from Pike"
  11. "Stampede"
  12. "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1965 Country Albums 4

[edit] External links

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