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