Containing 61 distinct album packages (single and double CDs, totaling 63 discs overall) housed in a box with a lift-off cover, The Complete Columbia Album Collection is accompanied by a full-color booklet that includes complete discographic information for every album: songwriters, recording dates and cities, musicians, guest performers, producers, release dates, original catalog numbers, Billboard pop and country chart numbers for albums and single tracks, and more. The booklet also features liner notes by veteran annotator Rich Kienzle, who references many of the Columbia albums along the way.
Complementing the Columbia albums, the producers have assembled two new compilations for this box set:
- Johnny Cash With His Hot & Blue Guitar, a 28-song collection of single and non-single tracks released during his Sun Records years (1954-58), including “Hey Porter,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “I Walk The Line,” “Cry! Cry! Cry!,” “Ballad Of A Teenage Queen,” “Big River,” and more; actually an expanded edition of his 1957 Sun LP, bearing that album’s iconic cover design; and
- The Singles, Plus, a 2-CD, 55-song collection (spanning 1958-85) of single sides that did not originally appear on Johnny’s Columbia albums, ‘plus’ guest performances on other artists’ albums, among them Bob Dylan, The Carter Family, Mother Maybelle Carter, June Carter Cash, The Earl Scruggs Revue, Marty Robbins, Willie Nelson, and Shel Silverstein.
# | Title | Rec. | Rel. | Catalog | |
1 | * | The Fabulous Johnny Cash | 1958 | 1958 | CL 1253 |
2 | * | Hymns By Johnny Cash | 1958-59 | 1959 | CL 1284 |
3 | * | Songs Of Our Soil | 1959 | 1959 | CL 1339 |
4 | * | Now There Was A Song! | 1960 | 1960 | CL 1463 |
5 | * | Ride This Train | 1959-60 | 1960 | CL 1464 |
6 | * | Hymns From The Heart | 1961 | 1962 | CL 1722 |
7 | * | The Sound Of Johnny Cash | 1961-62 | 1962 | CL 1802 |
8 | * | Blood, Sweat And Tears | 1962 | 1962 | CL 1930 |
9 | * | Ring Of Fire: The Best Of Johnny Cash | 1958-63 | 1963 | CL 2053 |
10 | * | The Christmas Spirit | 1959-63 | 1963 | CL 2117 |
11 | * | Keep On The Sunny Side – The Carter Family with special guest Johnny Cash | 1963 | 1963 | CL 2152 |
12 | * | I Walk The Line | 1963-64 | 1964 | CL 2190 |
13 | * | Bitter Tears: Johnny Cash Sings Ballads Of The American Indian | 1964 | 1964 | CL 2248 |
14 | * | Orange Blossom Special | 1964 | 1965 | CL 2309 |
15 | *# | Johnny Cash Sings Ballads Of The True West | 1959-65 | 1965 | C2L 38 |
16 | * | Everybody Loves A Nut | 1965-66 | 1966 | CL 2492 |
17 | * | Happiness Is You | 1962-65 | 1966 | CL 2537 |
18 | * | Carryin’ On With Johnny Cash & June Carter | 1964-67 | 1967 | CL 2728 |
19 | * | From Sea To Shining Sea | 1967 | 1967 | CL 2647 |
20 | Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (Live) | 1968 | 1968 | CS 9639 | |
21 | The Holy Land | 1968 | 1968 | KCS 9726 | |
22 | Johnny Cash At San Quentin (Live) | 1969 | 1969 | CS 9827 | |
23 | # | Hello, I’m Johnny Cash | 1969 | 1970 | KCS 9943 |
24 | The Johnny Cash Show (Live) | 1970 | 1970 | KC 30100 | |
25 | I Walk The Line o.s. | 1970 | 1970 | S 30397 | |
26 | Little Fauss And Big Halsy o.s. | 1970 | 1970 | S 30385 | |
27 | Man In Black | 1971 | 1971 | C 30550 | |
28 | A Thing Called Love | 1971-72 | 1972 | KC 31332 | |
29 | # | Johnny Cash: America – A 200-Year Salute In Story And Song | 1970-72 | 1972 | KC 31645 |
30 | # | Christmas – The Johnny Cash Family | 1972 | 1972 | KC 31754 |
31 | Any Old Wind That Blows | 1972 | 1973 | KC 32091 | |
32 | # | The Gospel Road (2-CD) | 1972 | 1973 | KG 32253 |
33 | Johnny Cash And His Woman | 1973 | 1973 | C 32443 | |
34 | Johnny Cash pa Osteraker (Live at Osteraker Prison, Sweden) | 1972 | 1973 | CBS 65308 | |
35 | Ragged Old Flag | 1974 | 1974 | KC 32917 | |
36 | The Junkie And The Juicehead Minus Me | 1973-74 | 1974 | KC 33086 | |
37 | The Johnny Cash Children’s Album | 1971-73 | 1975 | C 32898 | |
38 | Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories | 1974 | 1975 | C 33087 | |
39 | John R. Cash | 1974 | 1975 | KC 33370 | |
40 | Look At Them Beans | 1975 | 1975 | KC 33814 | |
41 | Strawberry Cake (Live at the Palladium, London, England) | 1975 | 1976 | KC 34088 | |
42 | One Piece At A Time | 1975-76 | 1976 | KC 34193 | |
43 | The Last Gunfighter Ballad | 1975-76 | 1977 | KC 34314 | |
44 | The Rambler | 1977 | 1977 | KC 34833 | |
45 | I Would Like To See You Again | 1976-77 | 1978 | KC 35313 | |
46 | Gone Girl | 1977-78 | 1978 | PC 35646 | |
47 | Silver | 1979 | 1979 | JC 36086 | |
48 | Rockabilly Blues | 1979-80 | 1980 | JC 36779 | |
49 | Classic Christmas | 1980 | 1980 | JC 36866 | |
50 | The Baron | 1980-81 | 1981 | FC 37179 | |
51 | The Survivors: Johnny Cash – Jerry Lee Lewis – Carl Perkins (Live) | 1981 | 1982 | FC 37961 | |
52 | The Adventures Of Johnny Cash | 1981-82 | 1982 | FC 38094 | |
53 | Johnny 99 | 1983 | 1983 | FC 38696 | |
54 | Koncert V Praze (In Prague Live) | 1978 | 1983 | Supraphon 1113-3278 | |
55 | Rainbow | 1984-85 | 1985 | FC 39951 | |
56 | Highwayman: Waylon Jennings – Willie Nelson – Johnny Cash – Kris Kristofferson | 1984-85 | 1985 | FC 40056 | |
57 | Heroes | 1984-85 | 1986 | FC 40347 | |
58 | Highwayman 2: Waylon Jennings – Willie Nelson – Johnny Cash – Kris Kristofferson | 1989 | 1990 | CK 45240 | |
59 | At Madison Square Garden (Live) | 1969 | 2002 | CK 86808 | |
BONUS DISCS: | |||||
60 | Johnny Cash With His Hot & Blue Guitar | 1955-58 | 2012 | ||
61 | # | The Singles, Plus (2-CD) | 1958-84 | 2012 | |
* | indicates original monaural (mono) recording | ||||
# | indicates gatefold cover package |