Songs of Our Soil

Johnny Cash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 1, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sbme Special Mkts.
• ASIN: B0012GN34Q
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,611 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Drink to Me

2. Five Feet High and Rising

3. The Man on the Hill

4. Hank and Joe and Me

5. Clementine

6. Great Speckled Bird

7. I Want to Go Home

8. The Caretaker

9. Old Apache Squaw

10. Don't Step on Mother's Roses

11. My Grandfather's Clock

12. It Could Be You (Instead of Him)

13. I Got Stripes [*]

14. You Dreamer You [*]

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cash gets back to his roots, March 7, 2010

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A. Christy - See all my reviews
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The premise of Songs of Our Soil is simple - Johnny Cash is singing a collection of old American folk songs, peppered with self-penned numbers in the same style. Don't let the odd paisley-clad Cash on the album cover deter you from buying this; it's a fine album, and an interesting example of an early Cash concept album. Notable tracks include "My Grandfather's Clock" (a traditional classic performed in the true Cash style), "The Man on the Hill," (a Cash original, capturing the sprit of the sharecropper's attitude towards his boss), and "Drink to Me," (a reworking of the traditional "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, a song that had special significance to Johnny). This album may be seen as a precursor to the more recent American recordings - it is an effort made by Cash to capture the songs that meant so much to him, and started him on the path towards his illustrious musical career. Listening to this album grants some insight into Johnny's roots, and where he felt his musical loyalties lay.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Cash, Sings Authentic Folk Ballads..., May 18, 2010

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R. Webb "minstrel man" (u.s.a.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Songs of Our Soil (Audio CD)

Imagine Johnny Cash singing Burl Ives folk ballads, "Songs Of Our Soil" is the title of this compilation, actually this is the Cash we all know and grew up with, eleven tracks on here are Cash originals. These songs were recorded off and on throughout 1959, just one year after Johnny signed with Columbia records, "The Fabulous Johnny Cash" was the man in black's debut for Columbia, and what a debut it was, a tremendous milestone for the legend. The songs on "Soil" tell real to life stories of living and dying, Johnny Cash never did waste time getting to the point, firing his powerful baritone voice through the stereo speakers with intense clarity - how high's the water mama, she said it's "Five Feet High And Rising" - three men stranded in the desert, one man dying, crying for water, "Hank And Joe And Me" - everything is sent down from "The Man On The Hill" - Bill Cody is after Wyatt Earp's darling "Clementine" - only time can tell with "My Grandfather's Clock". Songs like these and more simply utter the words, "this is Johnny Cash". Listen for the upbeat sea ventured tale "I Want To Go Home". "Songs Of Our Soil" is a short recording with twelve tracks and two additional bonus tracks, "I Got Stripes", "You Dreamer You". Buy this, it's an important additive for Cash collectors like me, and the price is right. 2002 release, excellent audio. (Would also recommend the UK import "Walk The Line" Sun box set recordings, the sound is superior.)

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lesser Known but great Cash CD, December 28, 2009

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Ryan Hall (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This is one of my favorite Johnny Cash albums. It is a lesser known title, but the music is fabulous. I great slice of Americana.