On October 22, 1980, “Columbia” label released “Rockabilly Blues”, the 42^nd Johnny Cash album. It was recorded in 1980, at “Quadrafonic Sound” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Earl Poole Ball, Jack Clement and Nick Lowe.

Personnel:

• Johnny Cash – vocals, rhythm guitar
• Bob Wootton, Pete Wade, Cliff Parker – electric guitar
• Martin Belmont, Jerry Hensley, Jack Routh, Marty Stuart, Eddy Shaver – guitar
• Jack Clement – dobro, acoustic guitar, producer
• Dave Kirby – acoustic guitar, guitar
• Jerry Hensley – electric, acoustic and rhythm guitar, dobro, harmony vocals
• Billy Joe Shaver – guitar, gut-string guitar
• Philip Donnelly – guitar
• Bobby Thompson – acoustic guitar, banjo
• Dave Edmunds – guitar, engineer
• Earl Poole Ball – acoustic and electric piano
• Shane Keister – Moog synthesizer, Prophet 5 synthesizer
• Terry McMillan – harmonica
• Floyd Chance – upright bass
• Daniel Sarenana, John Willis – brass
• Joe Allen, Joe Osborn – electric bass
• Nick Lowe – electric bass
• W.S. Holland, Jerry Carrigan, Larrie Londin, Kenny Malone, Pete Thomas – drums
• Don Sheffield, George Cunningham – trumpet
• Irv Kane, Rex Peer – trombone
• June Carter Cash – additional vocals
• Charles Cochran – horn arrangement
• Gene Eichelberger – engineer
• Curt Allen – engineer
• Dave Edmunds – engineer
• Willie Pevear, Barbara Cline – engineer assistant
• Leonard Kamsler – front cover photography
• Kajetan Koci – project coordinator

Track listing:

1. Cold Lonesome Morning – J. R. Cash
2. Without Love – Nick Lowe
3. W-O-M-A-N – J.R. Cash
4. The Cowboy Who Started the Fight – Billy Joe Shaver
5. The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over – Steve Goodman, John Prine
6. Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955) – J.R. Cash
7. The Last Time – Kris Kristofferson
8. She’s a Go-er – J.R. Cash
9. It Ain’t Nothing New Babe – Billy Joe Shaver
10. One Way Rider – Rodney Crowell