Album · 2002
The Essential Johnny Cash
by Johnny Cash
The Essential Johnny Cash is a 2002 country album by Johnny Cash. It runs 36 tracks across 106 minutes on Columbia. Riffiter listeners rate it 4.4/5 from 6 ratings.
Country · Country Rock · Rock
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- 106 min
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- 106 bpm
- Tempo
- A# major
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The Essential Johnny Cash album cover
The The Essential Johnny Cash cover was photographed by Don Hunstein, Frank Bez, Marvin Koner, Michael Ochs Archives, Sandy Speiser and Urve Koosik and art-directed by Lisa Sparagano.
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- Don Hunstein, Frank Bez, Marvin Koner, Michael Ochs Archives, Sandy Speiser, Urve Koosik
- Art direction
- Lisa Sparagano
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36 tracks · 106 min
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The Essential Johnny Cash is a double-compact disc compilation by Johnny Cash released as part of Sony BMG's Essential series. It was compiled to commemorate Cash's 70th birthday. It is not to be confused with the three-CD box set of the same name released by Columbia Records in 1992. The double album concentrates mainly on Cash's first 15 years as a recording artist with Sun Records and Columbia, contains only eight post-1970 selections, and no selections from Cash's work with Rick Rubin for American Recordings: Cash's final hit single, a cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt", was released ten months later. The album was certified Gold and Platinum on 2/5/2005 by the R.I.A.A. Amongst the 36 tracks on the compilation are two songs that feature Cash prominently but never appeared on any of his albums: "Girl from the North Country" from Bob Dylan's 1969 album Nashville Skyline, and "The Wanderer" from U2's 1993 album Zooropa.
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As a testimony to Cash's wide sphere of influence on country, rock, and other modern musics and his wide fan base, the liner notes feature testimonials and 70th birthday greetings from a wide array of artists - not only from friends and fellow travelers and collaborators like Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Petty, ex-stepson-in-law Nick Lowe, and wife June Carter Cash, but from the likes of Keith Richards, Elvis Costello, Corey Taylor and Shawn Crahan of Slipknot, Metallica's Kirk Hammett, and Black Flag's Henry Rollins.
In brief
- Is The Essential Johnny Cash good?
- Riffiter listeners rate The Essential Johnny Cash 4.4/5 from 6 ratings.
- When was The Essential Johnny Cash released?
- The Essential Johnny Cash was released in 2002 on Columbia.
- How many tracks are on The Essential Johnny Cash?
- The Essential Johnny Cash has 36 tracks, with a runtime of 106 minutes.
- What genre is The Essential Johnny Cash?
- The Essential Johnny Cash is catalogued under Country, Country Rock, Rock.
- What BPM is The Essential Johnny Cash?
- The Essential Johnny Cash runs at a median tempo of 106 BPM across its tracks, most often in A# major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to The Essential Johnny Cash?
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