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Johnny Cash: American V: A Hundred Highways

On July 4, 2006, “American Recordings” label released “American V: A Hundred Highways”, a posthumously studio album by Johnny Cash. It was recorded May – August 2003, at “Cash Cabin Studio” in Hendersonville, Tennessee, “Akadamie Mathematique of Philosophical Sound Research” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Rick Rubin.

Personnel:
• Johnny Cash – vocal, guitar
• Smokey Hormel – guitar
• Pat McLaughlin – guitar
• Larry Perkins – guitar
• Jonny Polonsky – guitar
• Randy Scruggs – guitar
• Marty Stuart – guitar
• Matt Sweeney – guitar
• Pete Wade – guitar
• Mac Wiseman – guitar
• Benmont Tench – organ, piano, harpsichord
• Laura Cash – fiddle
• Dennis Crouch – bass guitar
• David Campbell – string arrangements
• Jimmy Tittle – engineer assistant
• Greg Fidelman – mixing
• Paul Figueroa – mixing assistant
• Dan Leffler – mixing assistant
• Vlado Meller – mastering
• Mark Santangelo – mastering assistant
• Christine Cano – art direction, design
• Martyn Atkins – photography
• John Carter Cash – executive producer
• Lindsay Chase – production coordination
• Rick Rubin – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Help Me – Larry Gatlin
  2. God’s Gonna Cut You Down – traditional
  3. Like the 309 – Johnny Cash
  4. If You Could Read My Mind – Gordon Lightfoot
  5. Further on Up the Road – Bruce Springsteen
  6. On the Evening Train – Hank Williams
  7. I Came to Believe – Johnny Cash
  8. Love’s Been Good to Me – Rod McKuen
  9. A Legend in my Time – Don Gibson
  10. Rose of My Heart – Hugh Moffatt
  11. Four Strong Winds – Ian Tyson
  12. I’m Free from the Chain Gang Now – Lou Herscher, Saul Klein

Gordon Lightfoot: Sit Down Young Stranger

In April 1970, “Reprise” label released “Sit Down Young Stranger”, the sixth Gordon Lightfoot album.  It was recorded September-December 1968, at “Sunwest Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by Lenny Waronker and Joseph Wissert.

Personnel:

  • Gordon Lightfoot – vocals, guitar, piano
  • Red Shea – guitar
  • Ry Cooder- guitar, mandolin
  • John Sebastian- guitar, harmonica
  • Rick Haynes – bass
  • Van Dyke Parks- harmonium
  • Nick DeCaro – string arrangements
  • Randy Newman- string arrangement

Track listing:

All tracks by Gordon Lightfoot, except where noted

  1. Minstrel of the Dawn
  2. Me and Bobby McGee – Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster
  3. Approaching Lavender
  4. Saturday Clothes
  5. Cobwebs & Dust
  6. Poor Little Allison
  7. Sit Down Young Stranger
  8. If You Could Read My Mind
  9. Baby It’s Alright
  10. Your Love’s Return (Song for Stephen Foster)
  11. The Pony Man