On January 6, 1969, “Columbia” label released “The Holy Land” the 20th Johnny Cash album. It was recorded in 1969, and was produced by Bob Johnston.
Personnel:
- Johnny Cash – vocals, guitar
- Carl Perkins, Luther Perkins – electric guitar
- Marshall Grant – bass guitar
- W.S. Holland – drums
- The Carter Family, Jan Howard, The Statler Brothers – backing vocals
- Charlie Bragg – engineer
Track listing:
All tracks by Johnny Cash, except where noted.
- Prologue (narrative)
- Land of Israel
- Mother’s Love (narrative)
- This is Nazareth (narrative)
- Nazarene
- Town of Cana (narrative)
- He Turned Water into Wine
- My Wife June at the Sea of Galilee (narrative by June Carter Cash)
- Beautiful Words (narrative with sung interjection by Johnny Cash)
- Our Guide to Jacob at Mount Tabor (narrative interview)
- The Ten Commandments – Lew DeWitt
- Daddy Sang Bass – Carl Perkins
- At the Wailing Wall (narrative)
- Come to the Wailing Wall
- In Bethlehem (narrative)
- In Garden of Gethsemane (narrative)
- The Fourth Man – Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith
- On the Via Delorosa (narrative)
- Church of the Holy Sepulchre (narrative)
- At Calvary (narrative)
- God is Not Dead