Recorded on the Louisiana Hayride radio show between the years of 1955 thru 1962, these recordings capture John R. at his earliest and most raw. Standout tracks include a rare performance of "It Ain't Me Babe" with June Carter (with some great cutting up at the beginning), a rare perfomance of "Luther Played the Boogie" and well pretty much all of them......and hearing Johnny Cash talk about donuts is a novelty in and of itself.
- Ballad of a Teenage Queen
- Big River
- Busted
- Five Feet High and Rising
- Donut Commercial/Give My Love To Rose
- Goodbye Little Darlin'
- I Guess Things Happen That Way
- Hey Porter
- I Walk The Line
- It Ain't Me Babe (with June Carter)
- Luther Played The Boogie
- Orange Blossom Special
- The Rebel, Johnny Yuma
- Rock Island Line
- So Doggone Lonesome
There is a newer version of this that was released a few years ago and is a little more comprehensive but it is also out of print. Here's to hoping that a definitive version of these recordings make their way out of the Johnny Cash archives.
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Glad you decided to keep posting.
ReplyDeleteDon't let those spiteful, file-deleting pieces of shit get you down.
Thanks, I'd be grateful for any of the HTP reader requests you could help fill. Any records I can reciprocate with for you or your audience?
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff. Who the FUCK wants to waste their money on buying albums?
ReplyDeleteJohnny is dead, friends. Fuck that shit.
We are the ones who work our asses off and we should be able to come home and have free music. It is that simple.
to the above, Its not about getting free music. It's about discovering new music that doesn't suck.
ReplyDeletesad truth is nowadays country radio does not cater to people who like country music....and they haven't since garth brooks sold over a trillion albums back in the early 90's.
Ever wonder why you never hear Dwight Yoakam on the radio anymore....or even Merle Haggard who is still putting out great albums. It's because the radio is catering to a pop audience...not a country audience. Hell, they didn't even acknowledge Johnny Cash till after he died and they made a movie about him.
Fact is people still crave that genuine country sound....not that manufactured american idol-ized pop country crap they try to pass off as country now adays. And if you can't hear good country on the radio, you gotta look elsewhere....that's what I'm trying to do....turn some people on to some good music I feel is underplayed.......or even neverplayed in some cases. It's not about "getting free music" at all.
Truer, please be true. You think nobody knows who Johnny Cash is? Or Waylon Jennings? They do.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to get people into these guys, because assholes listen to Kenny Chesney instead, and they know Martina McBride and not Tammy or Patsy, then post the BEST Waylon song, or the BEST Johnny Cash song and tell 'em to buy the rest.
Why? Because if they buy, it sends a message to the record companies to dig into the vaults and bring back more, and not to cut loose George Jones from his label, and not to tell Merle he's too old. Or don't you remember when you got TWO George albums a year? Those were the days.
Mr. True, I am no Garth Brooks fan. That doesn't mean I think somebody else's blog should post every Garth Brooks album to fuck up his royalties. If somebody posts everything on George Jones, I don't see how it helps him any.
I also think it's damn cruel what that honkytonk prison guy wrote here somewhere, that if a singer is hurting he should just go and tour some more. George? At his age? How long must he tour? What blogger has the nerve to tell any musician how to run his life?
What do you do for a living? Would you like an intern taking your job away and doing it for free? Then the intern says "Oh, you go find yourself a new job, is all."
I would love to see some good C&W blogs that tell people who Jethro Burns was, how nice it is when the Son of the Pioneers harmonize, or what Alison Krauss is about. Put an mp3 song up as a sample.
I sure would like to have every George and Merle and Waylon album for free because it does get expensive, but too bad. If I want it I will buy it. That gives it some value.
If you or these other guys have real rarities and people I never heard of I'd love to find out. Maybe an album now and then is not so bad. But every day, a new album to download? Ray Price? Waylon? Willie Nelson? These are not obscure guys.
What's wrong with making some good compilations with a cut from each? A compilation of drinking songs or gambling songs or whatever. Something creative. Make it easy on yourself and do one a week. What's wrong with that idea, friend?
I want free music as long as it isn't hurting anybody. Taking an artist's stuff and deciding for yourself what to do with it, is just plain wrong. The pure gospel says it's wrong. Johnny Cash would tell you there's a man walkin' around takin' names and taking somebody else's music and deciding what to do with it is not right.
That's why nobody uses their name on a blog. It is illegal and we all know why. I don't see anybody saying Columbia is letting me give you this Johnny Cash album or Dolly Parton would like me to throw these five RCA albums on a blog.
So don't. Be creative instead and maybe the artists would thank you or at least not mind.
I may be saying this all wrong and I may not be convincing. This site may say it better:
http://rememberlennon.blogspot.com/
All this stuff about trolls and deleters and spite and Hanszun and whatever is not what it is about. It's about doing what you think the artist would want you to do and what the laws of our land say is right to do.
to the above, you make some valid points....however the Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard I posted was in fact rare, and the Johnny Cash was out of print. Also the DBT was significantly rare as that was only available at certain stores for pre-order.
ReplyDeleteand George Jones IS touring this year, I just saw him last month and he's still kickin' ass at 80.
anyway....yeh, I can see your points, and I've been thinking about doing some comp's anyway. I think I may have just started out on the wrong foot.