Early Johnny Cash recordings coming soon
Friday, December 24, 2010 – Five-decade recordings from Johnny Cash, including previously unreleased tracks, will be out this winter, according to CMT.com
"From Memphis to Hollywood" will be out as a double album on Feb. 22 by Columbia/Legacy. The first disc covers Cash's recordings in Memphis from late 1954 to late 1957, starting with a Memphis radio broadcast hosted by Cash, a dozen demos (11 never released) and 7 outtakes from Sun Records.
The second recording will be of Cash's non-album singles, outtakes and B-sides he recorded for Columbia from 1958 to 1969. During that period, Cash had left Nashville for Los Angeles to seek TV and film work as a songwriter and actor.
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CD reviews for Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash's live set was released on vinyl in Czechoslovakia in 1983. U.S. fans became aware of "Koncert v Praze (In Prague-Live)" when it was issued in the U.S. as part of the deluxe box set "Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection" in 2012. This marks the first time it was released as a single CD
Recorded on-stage in Czechoslovakia in April 1978,
- one of two recent reissues by the label of foreign concerts (the other was a Denmark show in December ...
Like many icons who have since departed the planet, Johnny Cash left behind a legacy that continues to flourish - in the songs he left behind, in their interpretation by others and in the man's own recordings, which still sound as fresh and vital as they were when first released.
This vintage concert offers a case in point. Recorded at the peak of his prowess, it finds him replaying his classic hits - "A Boy Named Sue," "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line" ...
One would think that with all the archival music, reissues and postmortem tributes released on Johnny Cash's behalf, the vaults would have been scraped pretty clean by now, with only scraps left for dedicated completists to feast upon. So it comes as no small surprise to find that the Cash archivists actually uncovered some entire sessions that haven't been unearthed until now. Recorded in the early '80s, "Out Among The Stars" is such a high quality collection that it ...
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