“Hymns By Johnny Cash” by Johnny Cash - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1959 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1950s |
Cash’s second LP for Columbia, released in March 1959. He had left Sun Records because Sam Phillips wouldn’t let him record the gospel songs he’d grown up with. Columbia promised him that he could release an occasional gospel album - and Johnny wasted no time in holding them to their word. Although a popular release, a set of traditional hymns sedately set to country is not generally my idea of fun, even if the big man’s baritone saves the day here and there. Taken as a whole though, Cash’s initial cool vibe is disappearing fast. They branded this is a “gospel” album - what a hoodwink that was…
The Jukebox Rebel
05–Jun–2007
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [02:08]  Johnny Cash - It Was Jesus [1959 album version] (Johnny Cash) Country |
| A2 | [02:36]  Johnny Cash - I Saw A Man (Arthur Smith) Country |
| A3 | [01:58]  Johnny Cash - Are All The Children In (Craig Starrett) Country |
| A4 | [02:29]  Johnny Cash - The Old Account (Traditional) Country |
| A5 | [02:04]  Johnny Cash - Lead Me Gently Home (Will L. Thompson) Country |
| A6 | [01:56]  Johnny Cash - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Traditional) Country |
| B1 | [02:24]  Johnny Cash - Snow In His Hair (Marshall Pack) Country |
| B2 | [02:31]  Johnny Cash - Lead Me Father (Johnny Cash) Country |
| B3 | [01:50]  Johnny Cash - I Call Him (Johnny Cash, Roy Cash) Country |
| B4 | [02:20]  Johnny Cash - These Things Shall Pass (Stuart Hamblen) Country |
| B5 | [02:00]  Johnny Cash - He’ll Be A Friend (Johnny Cash) Country |
| B6 | [02:24]  Johnny Cash - God Will (John Dee Loudermilk, Marijohn Wilkin) Country |
