Johnny Cash - Original Sun Sound Of Johnny Cash [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: SUN8180
Barcode: 0015047818020
Release Date: 24 Jul 2026
Genre: Folk, Rock

‘Original Sun Sound Of Johnny Cash’: Never released on CD, and unreleased until 1964, six years after Johnny Cashs 1958 departure from Sun for Columbia Records, ‘Original Sun Sound Of Johnny Cash’ spans both his first and final recordings for the label. The early ‘Wide Open Road’ shows the singer still under influence of Hank Williams (as well being a rarity in featuring the steel guitar of A.W. ‘Red’ Kernodle, who left the group shortly afterwards), but the sardonic, Charlie Rich-penned ‘Thanks A Lot’, from one of his final Sun sessions, finds Cash beholden to no one but himself. There’s also Cash’s self-penned gospel song, ‘Belshazzar’, an unusual inclusion in that his producer, Sam Phillips, usually recorded only the performer’s secular material. (Remastered 2024.)

Always Alone
Country Boy
Goodnight Irene
Wide Open Road
Thanks A Lot
Big River
Belshazzar
Born To Lose
New Mexico
I Forgot To Remember To Forget
Two Timin' Woman
The Story Of A Broken Heart