"Cash paid Jenkins a settlement of approximately $75,000. Unlike the fast-paced rock and roll style of ""Folsom Prison Blues,"" ""Crescent City Blues"" is a slow, 16-bar blues torch song. The instrumentation is entirely orchestral, while the Cash song is an uptempo number with a heavy guitar riff from Luther Perkins. The lyrics are similar, except for the points where Cash changes the perspective of the narrator. For example, both begin ""I hear the train a comin'/It's rollin' 'round the bend."" The Jenkins song follows that with ""And I ain't been kissed lord/Since I don't know when,"" but Cash follows it"
"Ride This Train Ride This Train is the eighth album by country singer Johnny Cash. It was originally released in September 1960 (see 1960 in music) and re-issued on March 19, 2002, (see 2002 in music) with four bonus tracks. It is considered to be Cash's first concept album. The album is billed as a ""travelogue"", with Cash providing spoken narration before each song to give context, in several cases playing historical characters, such as John Wesley Hardin, and describing different destinations around the United States visited by train. The songs themselves are not generally railroad-themed. The original album was"
"Hear My Train A Comin' ""Hear My Train A Comin'"" (alternatively titled ""Get My Heart Back Together"") is a blues-based song written by Jimi Hendrix. Lyrically, it was inspired by earlier American spirituals and blues songs which use a train metaphor to represent salvation. Hendrix recorded the song in live, studio, and impromptu settings several times between 1967 and 1970, but never completed it to his satisfaction. The documentary film ""Experience"" (1968) features the only version released during Hendrix's lifetime. Hendrix played the song solo as an acoustic guitar country-style blues and it is considered one of his most memorable"
"with the darker ""And I ain't seen the sunshine/Since I don't know when."" All of the verses have this dichotomy, with an identical narrative path and stark differences in tone. Where Jenkins' narrator says ""But I'm stuck in Crescent City/Just watching life mosey by,"" Cash has his protagonist sing the far darker ""But I shot a man in Reno/Just to watch him die."" Crescent City Blues ""Crescent City Blues"" is a song written by composer Gordon Jenkins and sung by Beverly Mahr, and released on his ""Seven Dreams"" album in 1953. It is a torch song about a lonely woman"
"Corey's Coming ""Corey's Coming"" is a song written and sung by Harry Chapin. It was released on his 1976 album ""On the Road to Kingdom Come"". The song, sung in first person, tells of John Joseph, an old man who lives out in the railroad yards. The Narrator tells how he likes to visit him in the evenings to listen to the old man's stories of the ""glories of his past"" and how he always ends the night with story of the arrival of his Corey, who he describes like an apparent love interest coming for him. The Narrator finds"
"The Man Comes Around (song) ""The Man Comes Around"" is the title track from Johnny Cash's """", released in 2002. It was written several years prior to the release of the album; however, Cash updated it for the album. It is one of the last songs Cash wrote before his death. Both sung and spoken, the song makes numerous Biblical references, especially to the Book of Revelation. There are numerous biblical references in the lyrics. A spoken portion from Revelation 6:1–2 in the King James Version introduces the song. The passage describes the coming of the Four Horsemen of the"
"Cash Show as part of a ""Ride This Train"" segment, with filmed background visuals showing a down and out wanderer roaming around the Public Square area of Shelbyville, Tennessee. Cash introduced the song with the following monologue: """"You know, not everyone who has been on 'the bum' wanted it that way. The Great Depression of the 30s set the feet of thousands of people—farmers, city workers—it set 'em to ridin' the rails. My Daddy was one of those who hopped a freight train a couple of times to go and look for work. He wasn't a bum. He was a"
"Johnny Cash, reportedly dreamed of hearing Mexican horns on the record and told Anita that if her song did not hit in five or six months he would record it ""the way I feel about it."" After the song failed to make the charts, Cash recorded it as ""Ring Of Fire"" in March 1963 with the horns and the Carter Sisters (along with Mother Maybelle). The revised song went on to gain wide international popularity and became one of the biggest hits of his career. She appeared on ""The Kate Smith Evening Hour"", currently on YouTube, in a duet with"
"I Would Like to See You Again I Would Like to See You Again is the 57th album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1978. The title track peaked at #12 on the singles chart, while ""There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"" reached #2; the album itself peaked at #23. The album features a pair of duets with Waylon Jennings, one of which was the ""There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"" single; it was one of Cash's first collaborations with Jennings, and the two recorded songs together throughout the 1980s, including a separate album entitled"
"rocked"", insists that Williams was inalienably country: Rockin' Chair Money ""Rockin' Chair Money"" is a song by Hank Williams. It was composed by Lonnie Glosson and Bill Carlisle. Williams recorded ""Rockin' Chair Money,"" a song about returning servicemen, while he working on the Johnny Fair Syrup radio show in Shreveport between August 1948 and May 1949. With its bluesy sound and Hank's repeated declaration, ""I like to rock, yeah rock,"" the song is not far from the rockabilly sound that would become immensely popular in the years ahead. In the 2001 country music documentary """", singer Steve Earle asserts, ""Hank"
"song #27 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs of all time. The song was recorded on March 25, 1963, and became one of the biggest hits of Cash's career, staying at number one on the country chart for seven weeks. It was certified Gold on January 21, 2010, by the RIAA and has also sold over 1.2 million digital downloads. Although ""Ring of Fire"" sounds ominous, the term refers to falling in love – which is what June Carter was experiencing with Johnny Cash at the time. Some sources claim that Carter had seen the phrase ""Love"
"tracks, only three were written by Cash, with ""The Man Comes Around"" the sole song specifically penned for it, and the only song Cash wrote in its entirety. The song was inspired by a dream Cash had about Queen Elizabeth II in which the queen compared Cash to ""a thorn tree in a whirlwind."" Haunted by the dream, Cash became curious if the phrase was a biblical reference and eventually found a similar phrase in the Book of Job. An alternative ""early take"" of the song appears on the ""Unearthed"" box set (2003) and ""The Legend of Johnny Cash"" (2005)."
"a River"", said in his acceptance speech: ""This is a travesty! I demand a recount. My grandfather raised me on Johnny Cash, and I think he deserves this more than any of us in here tonight."" Johnny Cash Johnny Cash (born J.R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk and gospel. This"
"music singer Johnny Cash in its entirety, according to his son John Carter Cash. Joan Baez included the song on her second solo album, Joan Baez, Vol. 2, released in 1961. The back cover gives it the title ""Engine 143 (The Wreck on the C. & O.)"". Dave Alvin included it on his album Public Domain The television show Shining Time Station did a rendition of the song in the episode Bad Luck Day At Shining Time Station. Engine One-Forty-Three ""Engine One-Forty-Three"" is a ballad in the tradition of early American train wreck songs, based on the true story of"
"The Johnny Cash Show (album) The Johnny Cash Show is the 35th overall album and live album by country singer Johnny Cash, recorded at the Grand Ole Opry and released on Columbia Records in 1970 as a tie-in with Cash's then-current TV series of the same title. Though one of Cash's lesser-known live records, it spawned the highly successful single ""Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"", which helped kickstart the career of singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson. The song and album reached No. 1 on the Country charts. The album was certified Gold on 2/16/1995 by the RIAA. Album - U.S. Billboard charts Singles"
"the name of the woman of the couple. Corey's Coming ""Corey's Coming"" is a song written and sung by Harry Chapin. It was released on his 1976 album ""On the Road to Kingdom Come"". The song, sung in first person, tells of John Joseph, an old man who lives out in the railroad yards. The Narrator tells how he likes to visit him in the evenings to listen to the old man's stories of the ""glories of his past"" and how he always ends the night with story of the arrival of his Corey, who he describes like an apparent"
"The Rambler (album) The Rambler is the 56th album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1977 on Columbia Records. A concept album about travelling, its songs, in between, include dialogue between Cash and hitchhikers picked up or other people he meets during the album's cross-country trip. It is the last, and one of the few Johnny Cash albums to only feature songs written by Cash himself. It is also his last non-religious concept album, and was included on the Bear Family box set ""Come Along and Ride This Train"". ""The Rambler"" reached #31 on the country album charts;"
"Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town is the 73rd album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1987, and his first for Mercury Records. It was re-released in 2003, paired with ""Boom Chicka Boom"" on a single CD. ""Sixteen Tons"" was previously a hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford, ""The Big Light"" is an Elvis Costello song from his album ""King of America"", released the previous year and ""Let Him Roll"" is from Guy Clark's debut, ""Old No. 1"". The album reached #36 on the country charts, while the only released single, ""The Night"
"about a married couple who find (according to the lyrics) that the ""fire"" has gone out of their relationship. It relates the desire of both partners to travel to ""Jackson"" where they each expect to be welcomed as someone far better suited to the city's lively night life than the other is. The song appeared on The Kingston Trio album ""Sunny Side!"", released in 1963. Johnny Cash and June Carter released a version in February 1967, reaching #2 on the US Country charts and winning a Grammy Award in 1968 for Best Country & Western Performance Duet, Trio or Group."
"are for a multi-year restoration to active status for eventual excursion service. It happened during the maiden run of the new streamlined train at the Jacksonville Seaboard Railroad Station that Ervin T. Rouse and Robert Russell ""Chubby"" Wise saw this train. Rouse and Wise wrote the ""Orange Blossom Special"" song as a fiddle tune. The tune was first recorded by Ervin and his brother Gordon one year later in New York. Bill Monroe recorded Rouse's and Wise's tune in 1942 (with Art Wooten on fiddle) and popularized the tune. Johnny Cash named his 1965 album after the song. The song"
"Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or artistically significant."" The song itself tells the story of a late-night meeting on a train ""bound for nowhere"" between the narrator and a man known only as the gambler. The gambler tells the narrator that he can tell he is down on his luck (""out of aces"") by the look in his eyes and offers him advice in exchange for his last swallow of whisky. After the gambler takes the drink (and a cigarette), he gives the following advice: The gambler then mentions that the ""secret to survivin' is knowing what to throw away,"
"that the returning Christ is pictured as driving. Like many spirituals originating in the African-American community, this was probably a coded anthem for the Underground Railroad. The secularized version was sung by railroad work gangs in the Midwestern United States in the 1890s. Currently the song is usually sung in collections of children's music. The song has been recorded by musicians ranging from Tommy Tucker Time (78'inch) to Pete Seeger and Barney the Dinosaur. Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album ""101 Gang Songs"" (1961). Harking back to the original lyrics of ""When the Chariot Comes"","
"he received a Grammy Award in the category ""Best Male Vocal Performance - Country"". Cash said a prisoner from San Quentin State Prison asked him to take a message to his wife if he ever went through his hometown. This conversation, according to Cash, was the inspiration for the lyric, which is about a dying convict who is released after ten years of imprisonment. The prisoner is on his way to Louisiana from San Francisco to see his wife and his child one last time before he dies. He collapses along the rails of the railway, where he is picked"
"Get Rhythm ""Get Rhythm"" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Cash. It was originally released as the B-side to the single release ""I Walk the Line"" in 1956 on Sun 241. It was re-released with overdubbed ""live"" effects in September 1969 as an A-side single and reached number 60 on the Billboard Pop chart. The song is about optimism, centering on a shoeshine boy who ""gets rhythm"" to cope with the tedious nature of his job. Alice Randall in the book ""My Country Roots: The Ultimate MP3 Guide to America's Original Outsider Music"" asks"
"played a guitarist who sang ""Blue-tailed Fly,"" also known as ""Jimmy Cracked Corn,"" with the saloon’s patrons. The townspeople—except for Matt Yordy—play along with the Lincoln look-alike, who claims that he is the president. Yordy is looking for a fight, and Abe obliges him . Prior to his career in show business, Temple had been employed as an economic statistician in the Business Division of the U.S. Census Bureau. During the Great Depression, Temple rode the rails, listening to the melancholic folksongs of the day, some of which, in 1948, he recorded for the Library of Congress’ music archives ."
"its somber arrangement, with Springsteen singing ""there's a new day coming"" in response to the Gospel Choir's refrain ""we've been traveling over rocky ground."" The next and penultimate track, ""Land of Hope and Dreams"", continues the religious themes and more hopeful outlook with its uplifting lyrics and chorus that use an extensive train metaphor to express Springsteen's take on the American dream. ""This train/dreams will not be thwarted/this train/faith will be rewarded,"" he sings. The song ends with a gospel choir singing excerpts from The Impressions' ""People Get Ready"" and Springsteen repeating ""you just get on board/you just thank the"
"Folsom Prison Blues ""Folsom Prison Blues"" is a song written in 1953 and first recorded in 1955 by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career. It was one of Cash's signature songs. It was the eleventh track on his debut album ""With His Hot and Blue Guitar"" and it was also included (same version) on ""All Aboard the Blue Train"". A live version, recorded among inmates at Folsom State Prison itself, became a #1"
"(feat. Johnny Cash), Charlie Louvin of The Louvin Brothers, Pink Anderson, Lowgold, David Holt, Flatt and Scruggs, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Johnny Cash, Chuck Ragan, Hank Williams III, Patrick Sky, Nine Pound Hammer, Roy Acuff, Boxcar Willie, Lonnie Donegan, The Seekers, Ernest Stoneman & Kahle Brewer, Carolyn Hester, Bert Southwood, Hank Snow and John Mellencamp. The music was often accompanied by a banjo and a fiddle, while the lyrics were either sung, crooned, yodeled, whistled, hummed, recited, or chanted. The song rivaled that of ""Casey Jones"" for being the number one railroading song of all time. The ballad was sung"
"There Ain't No Good Chain Gang ""There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"" is a song written by Hal Bynum and Dave Kirby, and recorded by American country music artists Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. It was released in May 1978 as the second single from the album ""I Would Like to See You Again"". The song reached #2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song is written and sung from the perspective of a prison inmate, writing back home to his family. He tells of the lessons he's learned while incarcerated; the chorus tells the four"
"main ones: There Ain't No Good Chain Gang ""There Ain't No Good Chain Gang"" is a song written by Hal Bynum and Dave Kirby, and recorded by American country music artists Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings. It was released in May 1978 as the second single from the album ""I Would Like to See You Again"". The song reached #2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The song is written and sung from the perspective of a prison inmate, writing back home to his family. He tells of the lessons he's learned while incarcerated; the chorus tells"
"- U.S. Billboard charts The Johnny Cash Show (album) The Johnny Cash Show is the 35th overall album and live album by country singer Johnny Cash, recorded at the Grand Ole Opry and released on Columbia Records in 1970 as a tie-in with Cash's then-current TV series of the same title. Though one of Cash's lesser-known live records, it spawned the highly successful single ""Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"", which helped kickstart the career of singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson. The song and album reached No. 1 on the Country charts. The album was certified Gold on 2/16/1995 by the RIAA. Album -"
"give him a gold watch for his years of hard work. However, the worker says he plans to give something Oney in return: a beating. As the song ends, 4:30 approaches, leading the song's hero to call out, ""Oney, Oney!"" before chuckling over his plans. Oney (song) ""Oney"" is a song recorded by American country music artist Johnny Cash. It was released in July 1972 as the second single from his album ""Any Old Wind That Blows"". The song peaked at number 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the ""RPM"" Country Tracks"
"Runaway Train (Rosanne Cash song) ""Runaway Train"" is a song written by John Stewart, and recorded by American country music artist Rosanne Cash. It was released in July 1988 as the fourth single from the album ""King's Record Shop"". ""Runaway Train"" was Rosanne Cash's ninth number one on the country chart as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of 14 weeks within the top 40. John Stewart released his own version on his 1987 album ""Punch the Big Guy"". Mary Chapin Carpenter also recorded the song for her debut album"