Release front cover
Album
Bootleg Vol IV: The Soul Of Truth
Johnny Cash
Release information
Year
2012
Label
Columbia
Description
Compilation produced by Steve Berkowitz and Greg Geller.
The fourth installment in Columbia/Legacy's bootleg series brings a couple of long out of print gospel albums back in print, along with a previously unreleased and untitled gospel album recorded in late 1975.
1975 was a gigantic year for Cash releases with "John R Cash", "Look At Them Beans", "Sings Precious Memories", "The Children's Album" and the special "Destination Victoria Station" (made exclusively for the restaurant chain) all seeing release that year (although some had been recorded earlier). Throughout the year Cash would tour both North America and Europe (where a couple of shows in London were recorded for release the following year) and then in October and December he found the time to record his best gospel album since 1969's "Holy Land". An album which - had it been released - would have been one of Cash's best albums of the decade. Why it never saw the light of day is a mystery, but much thanks to Sony for finally giving us the chance to hear it (two tracks from it has appeared in recent years, Sanctified on the Wallmart-edition of "Ultimate Gospel" and Keep Me From Blowing Away on the "Great Seventies Recordings" boxset.)
The set also includes the complete "A Believer Sings the Truth" album, along with the outtakes that were used on the "I Believe" compilation, as well as the only unreleased outtake from the sessions. The rest of "Bootleg 4" is filled up by the "Believe in Him" album as well as a good handful of outtakes. This album was apparently supposed to have been released on a Columbia sublabel as "Gospel Singer" - and indeed Cash promoted it on stage in late 1983, even calling it by this title. For some reason the album didn't appear for another couple of years, and when it did it was on Word Records where it had been given a new title.
Altogther "The Soul of Truth" is a very good collection of some of Cash's more obscure (even if "A Believer Sings the Truth" was an important, personal project for Cash) gospel recordings, and it shouldn't be skipped solely because of its sacred theme.
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.
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| 1 |
Released On The Album
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0:00 |
| 2 |
Released On The Album
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0:00 |
| 3 |
Previously Unreleased, 1979
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0:00 |
| 4 |
Previously Unreleased Unnamed Album, 1975
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0:00 |
| 5 |
From The Album
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0:00 |
| 6 |
Previously Unreleased Outakes From The Withdrawn Prior To Release Album
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0:00 |
| 7 |
Wings In The Morning
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2:44 |
| 8 |
Back In The Fold
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3:24 |
| 9 |
Gospel Boogie (A Wonderful Time Up There)
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2:38 |
| 10 |
Look Unto The East
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2:32 |
| 11 |
Over The Next Hill (We'll Be Home)
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2:34 |
| 12 |
I Was There When It Happened
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2:09 |
| 13 |
He's Alive
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4:15 |
| 14 |
Sanctified
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2:23 |
| 15 |
I've Got Jesus In My Soul
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2:39 |
| 16 |
Would You Recognize Jesus
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2:33 |
| 17 |
When He Comes
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3:31 |
| 18 |
That's Just Like Jesus
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3:11 |
| 19 |
I Was There When It Happened
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2:14 |
| 20 |
What On Earth Will You Do (For Heaven's Sake)
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3:12 |
| 21 |
I'm A New Born Man
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1:40 |
| 22 |
Keep Me From Blowing Away
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3:04 |
| 23 |
Strange Things Happening Every Day
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3:31 |
| 24 |
Don't Give Up On Me
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2:34 |
| 25 |
Children Go Where I Send Thee
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2:41 |
| 26 |
Over The Next Hill (We'll Be Home)
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2:19 |
| 27 |
I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal
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2:13 |
| 28 |
Far Side Banks Of Jordan
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2:48 |
| 29 |
Lay Me Down In Dixie
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2:00 |
| 30 |
Our Little Old Home Town
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2:41 |
| 31 |
Don't Take Everybody To Be Your Friend
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2:23 |
| 32 |
Belshazzar
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2:58 |
| 33 |
You'll Get Yours And I'll Get Mine
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2:20 |
| 34 |
My Children Walk In Truth
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2:37 |
| 35 |
Oh Come, Angel Band
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2:43 |
| 36 |
The Old Rugged Cross
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2:23 |
| 37 |
This Train Is Bound For Glory
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3:28 |
| 38 |
One Of These Days I'm Gonna Sit Down And Talk To Paul
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3:07 |
| 39 |
I'm Gonna Try To Be That Way
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2:48 |
| 40 |
God Ain't No Stained Glass Window
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3:07 |
| 41 |
What On Earth Will You Do (For Heaven's Sake)
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2:07 |
| 42 |
Half A Mile A Day
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3:22 |
| 43 |
That's Enough
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2:41 |
| 44 |
Another Wide River To Cross
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2:25 |
| 45 |
The Greatest Cowboy Of Them All
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3:57 |
| 46 |
You're Drifting Away
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1:37 |
| 47 |
Didn't It Rain
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2:28 |
| 48 |
Believe In Him
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3:26 |
| 49 |
He Touched Me
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2:32 |
| 50 |
Over There
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3:12 |
| 51 |
Way Worn Traveller
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1:52 |
| 52 |
Gospel Road
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3:44 |
| 53 |
I'll Have A New Life
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2:17 |
| 54 |
What Is Man
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2:32 |
| 55 |
Truth
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2:17 |
| 56 |
Wildwood In The Pines
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2:22 |
| 57 |
Never Grow Old
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2:40 |