With His Hot And Blue Guitar
Release information
Recording personnel
Personnel represented by recordings and sessions linked to this release. Credits can vary by recording or take.
- Johnny Cash — vocals, acoustic guitar
- Luther Perkins — electric guitar
- Marshall Grant — bass
Description
Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! is the debut studio album, released on October 11, 1957. The album contained four of his hit singles: "I Walk the Line," "Cry! Cry! Cry!," "So Doggone Lonesome," and "Folsom Prison Blues." It was re-issued on July 23, 2002, as an expanded edition, under the label Varèse Vintage, containing five bonus tracks, three being alternate versions of tracks already on the original LP. In 2012, Columbia Records reissued the album with 16 additional non-album Sun Records tracks as part of its 63-disc Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection box set. In 2017, 60 years after the original release, the album was remastered under the title Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! (Definitive Expanded Remastered Edition). In 2022, Sun released a remastered edition of the original studio album, with only the original track listing. The songs had been remastered as to simulate being in the studio as the tracks were recorded.
This was one of the first albums ever issued on Sam Phillips' Sun Records label.
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Tracklist
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| # / Side | Track | Archive links | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Side A | |||
| 1 |
The Rock Island Line
|
2:08 | |
| 2 |
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
|
2:21 | |
| 3 |
Country Boy
|
1:48 | |
| 4 |
If The Good Lord's Willing
|
1:37 | |
| 5 |
Cry, Cry, Cry
|
2:25 | |
| 6 |
Remember Me
|
1:56 | |
| Side B | |||
| 7 |
So Doggone Lonesome
|
2:33 | |
| 8 |
I Was There When It Happened
|
2:13 | |
| 9 |
I Walk The Line
|
2:42 | |
| 10 |
The Wreck Of Old '97
|
1:42 | |
| 11 |
Folsom Prison Blues
|
2:47 | |
| 12 |
Doin' My Time
|
2:33 | |
Singles from this album/release
| Single / related release | Relation | Release data | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
So Doggone Lonesome / Folsom Prison Blues
|
Single from this release | 1955 · Sun Records · 232 · 7" single | Released: December 15, 1955 |
I Walk the Line / Get Rhythm
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Single from this release | 1956 · Sun Records · Sun 241 · 7" single | — |