← Back
With His Hot And Blue Guitar
Album

With His Hot And Blue Guitar

Johnny Cash

Release information

Year
1957
Release date
Oct. 11, 1957
Label
Sun Records
Catalog no.
SLP 1220
Format
LP
Country
U.S.A.

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
  • 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.

Wiki

Images & Source Material

With His Hot And Blue Guitar
Release front cover

With His Hot And Blue Guitar

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
Side A
1
The Rock Island Line
7-59 · Recorded Possibly summer 1957
2:08
2
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
take 2 · Recorded August 4th, 1957
2:21
3
Country Boy
7-8 - take 3 · Recorded August 4th, 1957
1:48
4
If The Good Lord's Willing
7-51 - take 2 · Recorded August 4th, 1957
1:37
5
Cry, Cry, Cry
U 151 - take 4 · Recorded Probably May 1955
2:25
6
Remember Me
7-52 · Recorded August 4th, 1957
1:56
Side B
7
So Doggone Lonesome
U 173/7-53 - take 3 · Recorded July 30, 1955
2:33
8
I Was There When It Happened
7-54 - take 1 · Recorded August 4th, 1957
2:13
9
I Walk The Line
U 191/7-39 - take 2 · Recorded April 2, 1956
2:42
10
The Wreck Of Old '97
take 1 · Recorded Possibly summer 1957
1:42
11
Folsom Prison Blues
U 172/7-36 - take 1 · Recorded July 30, 1955
2:47
12
Doin' My Time
7-55 - take 2 · Recorded August 4th, 1957
2:33

Singles from this album/release

Single / related release Relation Release data Note
Side A - So Doggone Lonesome So Doggone Lonesome / Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two Single from this release 1955 · Sun Records · 232 · 7" single Released: December 15, 1955
Sun 241 label side A I Walk the Line / Get Rhythm Johnny Cash Single from this release 1956 · Sun Records · Sun 241 · 7" single