Johnny Cash - The Essential 2CD

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Disc one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length

1."Hey Porter"Johnny Cash2:13

2."Cry! Cry! Cry!"Johnny Cash2:23

3."I Walk the Line"Johnny Cash2:43

4."Get Rhythm"Johnny Cash2:13

5."There You Go"Johnny Cash2:17

6."Ballad of a Teenage Queen"Jack Clement2:11

7."Big River"Johnny Cash2:31

8."Guess Things Happen That Way"Jack Clement1:49

9."All Over Again"Johnny Cash2:12

10."Don't Take Your Guns to Town"Johnny Cash3:02

11."Five Feet High and Rising"Johnny Cash1:46

12."The Rebel – Johnny Yuma"Richard Markowitz/Andrew Fenady1:52

13."Tennessee Flat Top Box"Johnny Cash2:58

14."I Still Miss Someone"Johnny Cash/Roy Cash Jr.2:34

15."Ring of Fire"June Carter/Merle Kilgore2:35

16."The Ballad of Ira Hayes"Peter LaFarge4:07

17."Orange Blossom Special"E.T. Rouse3:06

18."Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)" (with The Carter Family)traditional, arranged by Johnny Cash3:51

Disc two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length

1."It Ain't Me, Babe" (with June Carter Cash)Bob Dylan3:03

2."The One on the Right Is on the Left"Jack Clement2:47

3."Jackson" (with June Carter Cash)Jerry Leiber [as Gaby Rodgers]/Billy Edd Wheeler2:44

4."Folsom Prison Blues" (Live)Johnny Cash2:44

5."Daddy Sang Bass"Carl Perkins2:20

6."Girl from the North Country" (with Bob Dylan; from Dylan's Nashville Skyline)Bob Dylan3:42

7."A Boy Named Sue" (Live)Shel Silverstein3:46

8."If I Were a Carpenter" (with June Carter Cash)Tim Hardin2:59

9."Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"Kris Kristofferson4:09

10."Flesh and Blood"Johnny Cash2:36

11."Man in Black"Johnny Cash2:52

12."Ragged Old Flag"Johnny Cash3:09

13."One Piece at a Time"Wayne Kemp4:01

14."(Ghost) Riders in the Sky"Stan Jones3:44

15."Song of the Patriot" (with Marty Robbins)Marty Robbins/Shirl Milete3:24

16."Highwayman" (with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson as The Highwaymen)Jimmy Webb3:03

17."The Night Hank Williams Came to Town" (with Waylon Jennings)Bobby Braddock/Charlie Williams3:24

18."The Wanderer" (U2 starring Johnny Cash; from U2's album Zooropa)Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen, Jr., Adam Clayton4:43

The Essential Johnny Cash is a double-compact disc compilation by Johnny Cash released as part of Sony BMG's Essential series. It was compiled to commemorate Cash's 70th birthday.

The double album concentrates mainly on Cash's first 15 years as a recording artist with Sun Records and Columbia, contains only eight post-1970 selections, and no selections from Cash's work with Rick Rubin for American Recordings: Cash's final hit single, a cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt", was released ten months later. The album was certified gold and platinum on February 5, 2005 and was certified 3× platinum on March 3, 2016 for sales of 1,500,000 copies by the RIAA. It has sold 1,724,200 copies in the US as of April 2017.

Amongst the 36 tracks on the compilation are two songs that feature Cash prominently but never appeared on any of his albums: "Girl from the North Country" from Bob Dylan's 1969 album Nashville Skyline, and "The Wanderer" from U2's 1993 album Zooropa.

As a testimony to Cash's wide sphere of influence on country, rock, and other modern musics and his wide fan base, the liner notes feature testimonials and 70th birthday greetings from a wide array of artists – from friends and collaborators like Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Petty, ex-stepson-in-law Nick Lowe, and wife June Carter Cash, and also from Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan of Slipknot, Metallica's Kirk Hammett, and Henry Rollins.