Release front cover
Album
American Recordings
Johnny Cash
Release information
Year
1994
Label
American Recordings
Recording personnel
Personnel represented by recordings and sessions linked to this release. Credits can vary by recording or take.
Personnel
- Johnny Cash — vocals, acoustic guitar
Description
Reissue history for American Recordings:
Since it's original release in 1994 "American Recordings" has been reissued on CD and LP multiple times, as Rick Rubin has moved the distribution rights to American's releases from one major label to another. Originally Warner Music handled the distribution of "American Recordings" (the original CD# was 9-45520-2), but soon after the release of Cash's second American album "Unchained" Rubin moved the distribution to Sony Music and both albums were soon reissued via Columbia (so, just a decade after Cash was kicked from Columbia, his former record label ran full page print ads in music magazines welcoming him back "home"). After the release of American III: Solitary Man Rubin once more changed distribution to Universal/Lost Highway, but has since moved it back to Sony Music/Columbia. Consequently, there are several different releases of all the early American albums on both LP and CD - each with different catalog numbers (the contents are the same).
Images & Source Material
Tracklist
Use this tracklist as a route map: each released track can lead to the specific recording or take, and the studio session behind it.
| # / Side | Track | Archive links | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Delia's Gone
|
2:17 | |
| 2 |
Let The Train Blow The Whistle
|
—
|
2:15 |
| 3 |
The Beast In Me
|
2:45 | |
| 4 |
Drive On
|
2:23 | |
| 5 |
Why Me Lord
|
2:21 | |
| 6 |
Thirteen
|
2:29 | |
| 7 |
Oh Bury Me Not (Introduction: A Cowboy's Prayer)
|
—
|
3:52 |
| 8 |
Bird On A Wire
|
4:00 | |
| 9 |
Tennessee Stud
|
—
|
2:54 |
| 10 |
Down There By The Train
|
5:35 | |
| 11 |
Redemption
|
3:01 | |
| 12 |
Like A Soldier
|
2:49 | |
| 13 |
The Man Who Couldn't Cry
|
—
|
4:59 |