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- Johnny Cash – “Ring Of Fire” This song has all the ingredients of a classic record. Written by Merle Kilgore and June Carter, the lyrics were pretty much a love letter to Cash – as both she and him were still married to other spouses at the time.
- Johnny Cash – “Sunday Morning Coming Down” Whether the legend that Kris Kristofferson landed his helicopter at Cash’s mansion to play him this song was true or not, it doesn’t take anything away from the fact that these four minutes from 1970 might be the most potent bit of Nashville songwriting ever.
- Johnny Cash – “Folsom Prison Blues” Image, sometimes, is stronger than the truth. Cash conveyed such feeling of a man behind bars in 1955 that many listeners believed that Cash was indeed an ex-convict.
- Johnny Cash – “Hurt” From a chart standpoint, it barely caused a ripple. But, any conversation concerning Johnny Cash songs has to include the lyrics of Trent Reznor – which took on new life from Cash, seemingly at the end of his long struggle with life and his demons.
- ‘Hey, Porter’
- ‘Big River’
- ‘(Ghost) Riders in The Sky’
- ‘San Quentin’
- ‘One Piece at A Time’
- ‘The One on The Right Is on The Left’
- ‘Flesh and Blood’
- ‘Understand Your Man’
- ‘Ballad of A Teenage Queen’
- ‘Get Rhythm’
We are kicking off this list with one of Johnny Cash’s railroad songs, ‘Hey, Porter’ at number 20. In the song, Cash tells the story of a passenger on a train who is excited to go back home and keeps asking the porter, relentlessly, for updates. Released in 1955 as a single, it was the first recording of Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two. It was a ...
This 1958 song was penned by Cash during a touring break being inspired by a newspaper article with the heading ‘Johnny Cash Has The Big River Blues In His Voice.’ However, he had a different arrangement in mind when Sam Philips, the founder of the Sun Records persuaded him to record the song: “When I wrote ‘Big River,’ I wrote it [to be sung] real...
Originally composed by American actor Stan Jones, ‘(Ghost) Riders in the Sky’ was a song that was covered by many artists over time, Cash being one of the best. Cash’s take on this cowboy-style country/western song had a perfect blend of instruments and vocals that could transport you back to the pages of a dusty old book on myths and folklore. The...
The album At San Quentin was the successor ofAt Folsom Prison, both of which were conceptual live prison albums, a theme that occupied Cash’s imagination for quite some time. Recorded live at San Quentin State Prison in 1969, this unique performance was also filmed by Granada Television under the direction of Michael Darlow. The title song was a ne...
‘One Piece at a Time’ followed Cash’s beautifully rhythmic narration of the lyrics, only breaking into melody in the choruses of the song. The track was a country novelty song, taking motifs from popular culture and telling the story of how the raconteur built his car (a Cadillac), which he couldn’t afford to buy. Each day he would go into the Cadi...
Written by Jack Clement, the country song was featured in Cash’s 1966 album Everybody Loves A Nut. Although the third single of the album, it became the most successful song reaching number two in the U.S Billboard Country Singles Chart. The lyrics of the song explores how individual differences, especially political ones, adversely affects the uni...
‘Flesh and Blood’ was a ballad by Cash which was featured in the film I Walk the Linestarring Gregory Peck. The song was a part of the film’s soundtrack album, which was also credited as a Cash album considering all the songs on it were composed by him, including the title track for the film. The lyrics of the song, if one could compare, were remin...
Released as the first single of Cash’s albumI Walk The Line, this 1964 song was also penned by Cash. The song was majorly influenced by Bob Dylan’s 1962 single ‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right’ both in terms of lyrics and melody. Dylan’s song was in turn inspired by Paul Clayton’s country song ‘Who’s Gonna Buy You Ribbons When I’m Gone?’, engagin...
For number 12 on our list, we go back to Cash’s 1958 track ‘Ballad of a Teenage Queen’. The song was written by Jack Clement and recorded by Cash with the background vocals by The Tennessee Two. The song featured on Cash’s album Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous(1958). Working with a more blues-incorporated country sound, the song’s lyrics follo...
This upbeat rockabilly is a feel-good track written by Cash himself. It was originally released on the B-side of the single ‘I Walk The Line’ in 1956. After more than a decade, it was overdubbed with live effects and re-released in 1969, becoming more popular than before. The song centres on a shoeshine boy who’s got “the dirtiest job in town” and ...
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Apr 29, 2024 · Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (Live) "I shot a man in Reno / Just to watch him die" is up there as the cruellest, coldest, greatest lyrics in the history of music. Written in 1953, and released as a single in 1955, 'Folsom Prison Blues' was inspired by the movie Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison and became Johnny's traditional set opener ...
- Man In Black. On one level, Johnny Cash’s theme song was a simple explanation for his preferred choice of outfit colour, but it also served as a protest statement against the treatment of the downtrodden and the poor by the wealthy classes, mass incarceration and the war in Vietnam.
- Five Feet High And Rising. Cash wrote this song as a first-person account of the 1937 Mississippi flood that, as a four-year-old, he got caught up in along with his family.
- Ragged Old Flag. Cash wrote the title track to his 1974 album in the wake of President Nixon's resignation. Cash, who had supported Nixon, had started to feel some doubts because of the president’s policies regarding the Vietnam War and growing divisions in the country.
- The One On The Right Is On The Left. Written by country legend “Cowboy” Jack Clement, this song from his 1966 novelty album Everybody Loves A Nut pokes fun at the supposed dangers of mixing politics with traditional roots music.
1 day ago · On this day (September 12) in 2003, the world lost an icon. Johnny Cash passed away at the age of 71 leaving behind children, grandchildren, and a musical legacy that will live forever. Fans ...
Aug 15, 2024 · Play That Song. Over 2K music fans have voted on the 290+ Best Johnny Cash Songs of All Time. Current Top 3: Folsom Prison Blues, Ring Of Fire, I Walk The Line.
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Dec 19, 2023 · However, that’s what we are about to do, and here is our list of the 25 best Johnny Cash songs of all time. 1. I Walk the Line. Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line (Live in Denmark) This is perhaps the most well-known Johnny Cash song of all time, and it helped push him to stardom way back in 1957.
