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The Complete Columbia Album Collection

December 04, 2012
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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
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