Release front cover
Album
Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town
Johnny Cash
Release information
Year
1987
Label
Mercury
Recording personnel
Personnel represented by recordings and sessions linked to this release. Credits can vary by recording or take.
Personnel
- Johnny Cash — vocals, guitar
- Jerry McEwen — guitar
- Jim Soldi — guitar
- Bob Wooton — electric guitar
- Joe Allen — bass
- Jack Hale — brass
- Robert Lewin — brass
- Earl Poole Ball — piano
- Charles Cochran — keyboards
- John Prine — vocals, guitar
- Marty Stuart — guitar
- Mike Elliott — acoustic guitar
- Kenneth Malone — percussion
- Daniel Shipp — harmonica
- Joseph Miskulin — unknown role
- Bernard Peyton — unknown role
- Michael Rhodes — unknown role
- Roy Huskey — bass
Description
Produced by Jack Clement.
This was Cash's first album after leaving Columbia Records, his label for more than two decades. Sessions for "Johnny Cash is Coming to Town" ran from September 1986 till February 1987 during which Cash recorded more than twenty songs. Outtakes includes Steel Guitar Rag, Old McDonald, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Drinking, Dirty Black Boots, An American Christmas, Whackos and Weirdos (re-recorded in 1989 as A Backstage Pass), Where Did We Go Right, Solid Gone, John Prine's Sam Stone, Kristofferson's The Heart and Anthem '84, Goin' by the Book, Beans for Breakfast, Mystery of Life, Wanted Man and The Hobo Song - the last five were included on the 1991 "Mystery of Life" album.
Cash promoted this album extensively in concert.
Videos were shot for Let Him Roll and Sixteen Tons.
Reissue history for Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town:
Paired with Cash's fourth Mercury album "Boom Chicka Boom", "Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town" was reissued on CD by Mercury/Universal in early 2003.
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 |
The Big Light
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2:39 | |
| 2 |
The Ballad Of Barbara
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|
4:20 |
| 3 |
I'd Rather Have You
|
—
|
3:09 |
| 4 |
Let Him Roll
|
4:29 | |
| 5 |
The Night Hank Williams Came To Town
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—
|
3:21 |
| 6 |
Sixteen Tons
|
2:43 | |
| 7 |
Letters From Home
|
—
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3:18 |
| 8 |
W. Lee O'Daniel (And The Light Crust Dough Boys)
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—
|
2:45 |
| 9 |
Heavy Metal (Don't Mean Rock And Roll To Me)
|
3:08 | |
| 10 |
My Ship Will Sail
|
2:45 |