I Walk The Line: The Very Best Of Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 2, 1999)
• Original Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00000HX5N
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #222,368 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Walk the Line

2. Hey Porter

3. Oh, Lonesome Me

4. Get Rhythm

5. Cry Cry Cry

6. Folsom Prison Blues

7. Guess Things Happen That Way

8. You Win Again

9. The Ways of a Woman in Love

10. Luther Played the Boogie

11. Train of Love

12. Two Timin' Woman

13. Next in Line

14. Wide Open Road

15. Rock Island Line

16. Country Boy

17. Ballad of a Teenage Queen

18. Big River

19. Come in Stranger

20. Don't Make Me Go

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You mean this album's been out two years with no reviews?, April 15, 2002

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Interplanetary Funksmanship "Swift lippin', e... (Vanilla Suburbs, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Walk The Line: The Very Best Of Johnny Cash (Audio CD)

Back before country music became dumbed-down, there was a very eclectic mix of musical styles which melded to form what was known as "bad [boy] outlaw country blues," of which Johnny Cash was the exemplar. "I Walk the Line" is an appropriate intro to the man who carefully crafted his "man in black" identity. That identity always brought together the two seemingly opposite sides of Cash's personality: The "Folsom Prison" outlaw (Cash let the legend build around himself he was an ex-con) and the gospel-singing, deeply-religious man. No matter, Cash's intelligent, complex tunes are a slap in the face at the kind of facile "I'm just a simple [country person], and proud of it, hyuck, hyuck, hyuck" [stuff] that the media puts out today...

Today's aspiring country stars would do well to listen to Cash, who deftly mixes Nashville country, gospel and blues. His "Two Timin' Woman" is a heartbreaker, time and again.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My first Johnny Cash CD, July 14, 2006

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Peggy (FPO, AP USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: I Walk The Line: The Very Best Of Johnny Cash (Audio CD)

Even though I grew up in Johnny Cash's era, I never listened much to country music. I became interested in his music after the movie 'Walk the Line' came out. I listened to samples of many of Johnny Cash's CDs on Amazon before selecting this one. It's now one of my favorites. The selection of songs is good, as is the quality of the recording.