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With His Hot And Blue Guitar

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This was Johnny Cash's first album, recorded 1955-1957, released October 1957. It was also the first LP issued on Sam Phillips Sun label. It is listed here as tradional country, but it certainly was not that at the time. It was rockabilly that was being done by others in the 50s, but with a sound unique to Sun and Johnny Cash. Certainly no one else even at Sun sounded like Cash nor did any other musicians have that wonderful freight train, chick-boom, chick-a-boom sound. I've heard many versions of the folk song 'The Wreck of Old 97', but Cash's version, for the first time in recording history, really rocks out. Now, well over 50 years later, these songs are more enjoyable than perhaps any other country or rockabilly from that time.

Thank you Del from Motor Billy Radio, for yet again almost being responsible for this purchase here on Amazon, it's a great cd