With His Hot and Blue Guitar

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	Original: October 1957 Re-issued: 1969 Re-issued: 2002
Recorded	May 1955 - August 4, 1957
Genre	Country, Rockabilly
Length	Original: 27:40 Re-issue: 39:41
Label	Sun
Producer	Sam Phillips
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Johnny Cash chronology
Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957) Johnny Cash Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous (1958)

Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar is the debut album of country singer Johnny Cash, released on October 11, 1957). The album contained four of his hit singles: "I Walk the Line," "Cry Cry Cry," "So Doggone Lonesome," and "Folsom Prison Blues." It was re-issued on July 23, 2002) as an expanded edition, under the label Varese Vintage, containing five bonus tracks, three being alternate versions of tracks already present on the original LP.

This was the first LP ever issued on Sam Phillips' Sun Records label.

Track listing

1. "Rock Island Line" (Lead Belly) – 2:11
2. "(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle" (Jimmie Davis, Hank Williams) – 2:25
3. "Country Boy" (Cash) – 1:49
4. "If the Good Lord's Willing" (Jerry Reed) – 1:44
5. "Cry Cry Cry" (Cash) – 2:29
6. "Remember Me (I'm the One Who Loves You)" (Stuart Hamblen) – 2:01
7. "So Doggone Lonesome" (Cash) – 2:39
8. "I Was There When It Happened" (Jimmie Davis, Fern Jones) – 2:17
9. "I Walk the Line" (Cash) – 2:46
10. "Wreck of the Old '97" (Norman Blake, Cash, Bob Johnson) – 1:48
11. "Folsom Prison Blues" (Cash) – 2:51
12. "Doin' My Time" (Jimmie Skinner) – 2:40

Bonus tracks

1. "Hey Porter" (Cash) – 2:14
2. "Get Rhythm" (Cash) – 2:15
3. "I Was There When It Happened" (Davis, Jones) – 2:18
4. "Folsom Prison Blues" (Cash) – 2:34
5. "I Walk the Line" (Cash) – 2:40

Note that on the Varese CD reissue, "Country Boy" is not the original "full band" version from the LP, but rather an acoustic version with just Cash and his guitar which is the demo version.

Personnel

• Johnny Cash - Main Performer, Vocals
• Luther Perkins - Electric Guitar
• Marshall Grant - Bass
• Al Casey - Guitar
• Sam Phillips - Producer
• Cary E. Mansfield - Reissue Producer
• Bill Dahl - Liner Notes, Reissue Producer
• Dan Hersch - Digital Remastering
• Bill Pitzonka - Art Direction

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

External links

• LP Discography entry on Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar

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