The Man in Black: 1963-1969 [Box]

Performer: Johnny Cash
Producer: Don Law; Frank Jones; Bob Johnston
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); June Carter Cash (vocals, autoharp); Jan Howard (vocals); Lew DeWitt (whistling); Robert L. Johnson (guitar, 12-string guitar, banjo, lute, mandocello); Mother Maybelle Carter (guitar, autoharp); Charles E. Daniels (guitar, fiddle); Jerry Glenn Kennedy, Grady Martin, Helen Carter, Anita Carter, Jerry Shook, Luther Perkins, Carl Perkins (guitar); Don Helms (steel guitar); Jerr Haynie, Martin Kathan, Solie Fott, Stephanie Woolf (violin); Howard Carpenter, Don Cassell, Brenton Banks, Marvin Chantry (viola); Harold E. Cruthirds, Jr., Byron Bach (cello); Karl Garvin, William K. McElhiney (trumpet); Floyd Cramer (piano); Anita Kerr (organ); W.S. Holland (drums). Audio Mixer: Mark Wilder. Liner Note Authors: Colin Escott; Richard Weize. Recording information: Columbia A;799 7th Avenue;New York, NY (03/25/1963-09/10/1969); Columbia Recording Studio;804 16th Avenue South;Nashvil (03/25/1963-09/10/1969). Unknown Contributor Role: Fred Carter. German completists Bear Family have done the world a great service by painstakingly anthologizing the early work of Johnny Cash in their MAN IN BLACK box sets. The first two volumes collect Cash's earliest work, including his stellar rockabilly-influenced Sun recordings. This third installment in the series is no less essential, though, as it represents some of Cash's most progressive work. Most of the material included here was recorded during a time when Cash's iconoclast/outlaw ethic fell in rather serendipitously with the contemporaneous underground/countercultural movement. Ever the champion of the underdog and the downtrodden, Cash recorded his two legendary "prison" albums in '68 and '69, AT FOLSOM PRISON and AT SAN QUENTIN, which are included here in all their gritty, near-riot-instigating glory. In the late-'60s, Cash also began championing the work of contemporary folk-rock singer songwriters like Tim Hardin, and Cash's version of Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter" is a memorable one. The overall impression on this set is one of an artist who refused to stand still, determined to pursue his muse wherever it led him.

Johnny Cash was part rockabilly rebel, part campfire storyteller, part outlaw in black. Cash made country and rockabilly history on the Sun label in the 1950s. During the '60s, the ruggedly charismatic Cash rose to superstardom, ending the decade with both his marriage to June Carter and his own television show. In the '90s, Cash began his highly successful and acclaimed AMERICAN RECORDINGS series, reaching a new audience with an amazingly diverse set of songs, ranging from traditional tunes to alternative rock covers. With his lean, angular sound and hearty, passionate baritone, Cash forged one of the most unique styles in all of popular music, one that delved into gospel, folk, and rock, but also remained the essence of country music. Four months after his wife died, Johnny Cash passed away on September 12, 2003. And in 2005, the Oscar-nominated biopic WALK THE LINE brought Cash's music and legend to his largest audience yet.

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