The Man In Black Vol. 1: 1954-1958 [Box set, Import]

Johnny Cash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 5
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Bear Family
• ASIN: B0000282XT
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #268,691 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Wide Open Road

2. You're My Baby

3. My Treasure

4. My Treasure

See all 32 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Don't Make Me Go

2. Next in Line

3. Don't Make Me Go

4. Don't Make Me Go

See all 31 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Sugartime

2. Born to Lose [Undubbed Master]

3. You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven

4. Born to Lose

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Oh, What a Dream

2. I'll Remember You

3. Drink to Me

4. What Do I Care

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Disc: 5

1. Lead Me Father

2. Lead Me Father

3. Lead Me Father

4. Lead Me Father

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Five CDs in an LP size box set with a 36 page book.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great introduction to the Man in Black's career!, October 18, 2003

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"mahes" (Mississauga, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Man In Black Vol. 1: 1954-1958 (Audio CD)

This is a superb complete box set of Cash's Sun material and early Columbia work. There are other CD's available of his sun work and a lot more overdubbing are on some of thoese CD's, but on this box set you will hear them as they were recorded originally! There are a few surprises on this box set and quite a few outtakes and chatter in the studio which I know you will really enjoy. The best CD is disc 5 though. There is an uninterrupted recording session from 1959 with Johnny, the Tennessee Three and the Jordanaires recording Lead Me Father, That's Enough, Picking Time, Don't Take Your Guns To Town, I Still Miss Someone, One More Ride and Cold Shoulder. I highly recommend it to all Cash fans as it is a graet introduction to his career!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Luther played the boogie, June 17, 2004

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Martin 13 (Slovenia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Man In Black Vol. 1: 1954-1958 (Audio CD)

This five cd set includes everything that Johnny Cash recorded for Sun Records. All of his fifties hits are here "Hey Porter", "I Walk The Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", few Hank Williams' songs "Hey, Good Lookin'", "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With", "Cold, Cold Heart", "I Could Never Be Ashamed of You" and some alternate takes are featured here. Must for Johnny's fans!

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything Johnny Box #1, January 16, 2012

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J. Bynum (the southwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Man In Black Vol. 1: 1954-1958 (Audio CD)

Johnny Cash / The Man In Black (Vol. 1) / 1954-1958 (Bear Family Records 5 CDs = 4 studio CDs plus 1 studio "session" CD).

Bear Family Records gathers every single track of every single song and every outtake and puts them all into their Three Box sets of Johnny Cash but these box sets only cover his songs from the beginning of his career in the 1950's to the end of the 1960's. They also have a Forth Box set of Johnny Cash's "Concept Albums" which were made in the 1960's to the late 1970's, but that box only covers those particular sessions and are not all inclusive of the recordings of those years. While these box sets are perfect for the ultimate Johnny Cash fans, the various outtakes of the same song can get weary with repetition.

The First Four CD's in this box covers all the great tracks that made Johnny Cash a recording legend. These are the "rockabilly" recordings he made for Sam Phillips' Sun Records which became Country Music standards, as well as his first tracks for Columbia. The fifth CD in this Vol. 1 set may be one of the strangest in Bear Family history, as this disc gives us a complete studio session from August 13th, 1958 which has him working on "Lead Me Father", "That's Enough", "I Still Miss Someone", "One More Ride", "Pickin Time", "Don't Take Your Guns To Town", plus "I'd Rather Die Young", "The Shepherd of My Heart" and "Cold Shoulder" with banter, false starts, accepted and rejected masters. This Fifth CD in the set is certainly interesting on first hearing, but it is hardly something that you'll play much for entertainment. However, it is an amazing addition from Bear Family.

This first volume of the J.C. box sets from Bear Family deserves a Five Star rating.