Release front cover
Album
Rainbow
Johnny Cash
Release information
Year
1985
Label
Columbia
Recording personnel
Personnel represented by recordings and sessions linked to this release. Credits can vary by recording or take.
Personnel
- Johnny Cash — vocals, guitar
- James Cobb — guitar, harmony vocals
- Marty Stuart — guitar, mandolin, harmony vocals
- Reggie Young — guitar
- Mike Leech — bass
- Gene Chrisman — drums
- Bobby Emmons — keyboards
- Bobby Wood — keyboards, piano, harmony vocals
- Jack Hale — brass
- Wayne Jackson — brass
- Waylon Jennings — vocals, guitar
- Jerry Shook — guitar
- Jimmy Tittle — bass
- June Carter Cash — harmony vocals
- Paul Davis — harmony vocals
- Toni Wine — harmony vocals
Description
Produced by Chips Moman.
Apart from the 'duet' albums "Highwayman" (with Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson) and "Heroes" (with Waylon Jennings) this was Cash's last album for Columbia Records before he signed with Mercury.
Outtakes include Old Lonesome, Kristofferson's Love is the Way (re-recorded with Waylon Jennings for "Heroes"), Maybe You Should Have Been Listening and American by Birth (re-recorded with Waylon Jennings for "Heroes") as well as The Three Bells and They Killed Him which were released as a single.
Here Comes That Rainbow Again was performed regularly in concert in 1985 and Unwed Fathers is known to have been performed at least once (at a concert at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo in the summer of '85). Otherwise Cash didn't promote Rainbow a lot on stage.
Reissue history for Rainbow:
1. Reissued for download by Columbia/Legacy in April of 2010.
2. Released on CD for the first time as part of the "The Complete Columbia Album Collection" in December 2012. The disc comes in a cardboard replica of the original album artwork.
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 |
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| 1 |
I'm Leaving Now
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| 2 |
Here Comes That Rainbow Again
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| 3 |
They're All The Same
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| 4 |
Easy Street
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0:00 |
| 5 |
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
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| 6 |
You Beat All I Ever Saw
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0:00 |
| 7 |
Unwed Fathers
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0:00 |
| 8 |
Love Me Like You Used To
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| 9 |
Casey's Last Ride
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0:00 | |
| 10 |
Borderline (A Musical Whodunit)
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0:00 |