Hymns By Johnny Cash [Original recording remastered]

Johnny Cash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 19, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1959
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000636UT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #274,288 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The album Cash moved to Columbia to make, May 26, 2002

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hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hymns By Johnny Cash (Audio CD)

Columbia's year-long reissue program, celebrating Cash's seventieth birthday, began in February with the release of "The Essential Johnny Cash," and continues with enhanced releases of several crucial original LPs. Each album is remastered, and expanded with new essays, bonus tracks and a newly penned introduction from Cash.

1959's "Hymns By Johnny Cash" is considered the album for which Cash "came to Columbia" (or "left Sun," depending on who's talking). Sun's owner, Sam Phillips, didn't see a market for an album of sacred songs, but Columbia had no such misgivings, and sold a half-million copies. Cash invested himself deeply in these declarations of faith, his baritone praise (set against stark accompaniment) displayed a growing maturity and distance from the pop orientation of his Sun days. The mix of originals and standards became mainstays of his repertoire, providing a moral focal point for his shows and an oft-needed lifeline for his soul.

Over the decades, Cash's sound, forged on his very first single at Sun, has proven a remarkably spacious and fertile ground in which to develop his genre-bounding songbook. Given the depth and breadth of his catalog, a compilation, such as "The Essential Johnny Cash" serves as a Cliff's Notes introduction, while the original LPs provide richly detailed chapters in the story of an American musical icon.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who was it, everybody?, February 13, 2006

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Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hymns By Johnny Cash (Audio CD)

This was Johnny Cash's second Columbia album. He specifically went to Columbia Records because they promised that he would be allowed to record an occasional gospel album, which Sun Records wouldn't allow him to do. The album contains Johnny's originals and his take on his favorite gospel songs. It is a very good example of "country gospel". There is one bonus track, which is the mono EP version of "It Was Jesus". It is the same recording as the album version of "It Was Jesus", but the chorus that sings backup is missing.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Songs...Great album, December 26, 2008

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Adam L. Vaughan - See all my reviews
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Some really great original hymns set to Johnny's trademark style. My newborn son loves this music...the rhythmic feel and deep voice lull him to sleep every time!