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Johnny Cash: Rockabilly Blues

On October 22, 1980, “Columbia” label released “Rockabilly Blues”, the 42nd 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

Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town

Johnny Cash is Coming toTown

On April 13, 1987, “Mercury” label released “Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town”, the 73rd Johnny Cash album. It was recorded September 1986 – January 1987, at the “Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa”and was produced by Jack Clement.

Personnel:

  • Johnny Cash – vocals, guitar
  • Waylon Jennings – vocals
  • Jim Soldi – lead and acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Marty Stuart – lead and acoustic guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
  • Pete Wade – lead guitar
  • Bob Wootton – lead guitar
  • Joey Miskulin – lead guitar, acoustic bass, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Jack Clement – acoustic guitar, dobro, Jews harp, kazoo
  • Mike Elliot – acoustic guitar
  • Lloyd Green – steel guitar
  • Earl Poole Ball – piano
  • Charles Cochrane – piano, keyboards
  • Paco: harmonica
  • Jimmy Tittle – electric bass, backing vocals
  • Joe Allen, Michael Rhodes – electric bass
  • Roy Huskey, Jr. – acoustic bass
  • S. “Fluke” Holland – drums
  • Kenny Malone – percussion
  • Jack Hale Jr. – horns, keyboards
  • Bob Lewin – horns, keyboards
  • Jay Patten – horns
  • Stuart Duncan, Mark O’Connor, Vassar Clements: fiddle
  • June Carterand The Carter Family (June Carter Cash, Helen Carter, Anita Carter, Carlene Carter), Cinday Cash-Stuart, Bernard Peyton –  backing vocals
  • Charlie Williams – announcer voice
  • David Ferguson – engineer, mixing, assistant producer
  • Rich Adler – engineer, technical director
  • Glenn Meadows, Masterfonics – mastering
  • Virginia Team – art concept
  • Jerry Joyner, Joe Rogers – design
  • Slick Lawson – photography
  • John Lomax III – liner notes
  • Dr. Marie Kelly, Dr. Burkett Nelson – eyes courtesy
  • Coley Coleman – production manager
  • Joey Miskulin – executive producer

Track listing:

  1. The Big Light – Elvis Costello
  2. Ballad of Barbara – Johnny Cash
  3. I’d Rather Have You – Johnny Cash
  4. Let Him Roll – Guy Clark
  5. The Night Hank WilliamsCame to Town – Bobby Braddock, Charlie Williams
  6. Sixteen Tons – Merle Travis
  7. Letters from Home – J.C. Crowley, Jack Wesley Routh
  8. Lee O’Danieland the Light Crust Doughboys – James Talley
  9. Heavy Metal (Don’t Mean Rock and Roll to Me) – Clark, Jim McBride
  10. My Ship Will Sail – Allen Reynolds

Neil Young: Old Ways

Old ways

On August 12, 1985,  “Geffen” label released “Old Ways”, the fourteenth studio Neil Young album. It was recorded January 1983  – April 1985 at “House Of David”, in Nashville, “The Castle” in Franklin TN,  “Pedernales Recording Studio” in Spicewood, TX , and live at “The Opry” in  Austin TX, and was produced by Neil Young, David Briggs, Ben Keith, and Elliot Mazer.

Personnel:

  • Neil Young – vocal, guitar, banjo, harmonica
  • Waylon Jennings – vocal, guitar
  • Willie Nelson – vocal, guitar
  • David Kirby – guitar
  • Grant Boatwright – guitar
  • Johnny Christopher – guitar
  • Ray Edenton – guitar
  • Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar, dobro
  • Ralph Mooney – pedal steel guitar
  • Béla Fleck – banjo
  • Bobby Thompson – banjo
  • Anthony Crawford: vocal, mandolin
  • Marty Stuart: mandolin
  • Rufus Thibodeaux – fiddle
  • Gordon Terry – fiddle
  • Hargus “Pig” Robbins – piano
  • Spooner Oldham – piano
  • Tim Drummond – bass
  • Joe Osborn – bass
  • Joe Allen – upright ad electric bass
  • Karl Himmel – drums
  • Farrell Morris – percussion
  • Terry McMillan: harmonica, jew’s harp
  • Gove Scrivenor: autoharp
  • Carl Gorodetzky: violin
  • Larry Byrom: vocal
  • Rick Palombi: vocal
  • Doana Cooper: vocal
  • Denise Draper: vocal
  • Gail Davies: vocal
  • Betsy Hammer: vocal
  • Pam Rose: vocal
  • Janis Oliver-Gill: vocal
  • Mary Ann Kennedy: vocal
  • Kristine Oliver-Arnold: vocal
  • Leona Williams: vocal
  • Strings:
    • Carl Gorodetsky, leader
    • George Binkley
    • John Borg
    • Roy Christensen
    • Virginia Christensen
    • Charles Everett
    • Larry Harvin
    • Mark Hembree
    • Lee Larrison
    • Betty McDonald
    • Dennis Molchan
    • Pamela Sixfin
    • Mark Tanner
    • David Vanderkooi
    • Gary Vanosdale
    • Carol Walker
    • Stephanie Woolf

Track listing:

All tracks by Neil Young; except where noted.

  1. The Wayward Wind – Herb Newman, Stanley Lebowsky
  2. Get Back to the Country
  3. Are There Any More Real Cowboys?
  4. Once an Angle
  5. Misfits
  6. California Sunset
  7. Old Ways
  8. My Boy
  9. Bound to Glory
  10. Where Is the Highway Tonight