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There really isn't anything big missing - after all, all but one song from the 1967 Columbia Greatest Hits is here - but what makes a box set great is the quality of the songs that aren't the hits, and here Essential is a bit wobbly. It hits all the big, iconic hits - 'Folsom Prison Blues,' 'I Walk the Line,' 'Ballad of a Teenage Queen,' 'Guess Things Happen That Way,' 'Don't Take Your Guns to Town,' 'I Got Stripes,' 'Ring of Fire,' 'Daddy Sang Bass,' 'A Boy Named Sue' - but makes no pretense of containing all the hits, and in fact leaves many other hit singles behind, not to mention album tracks. Spanning 75 tracks, this takes in nearly three decades of Cash's career, starting at Sun and ending when Cash left the label in the mid-'80s. In other words, there is a lot of material to choose from, and while it all sounds similar - in that it all sounds like Johnny Cash music - there are so many themes and styles, it's difficult to distill it down to the essentials, as Columbia/Legacy's 1992 triple-disc box set The Essential Johnny Cash 1955-1983 attempts to do. Then, there's the sheer variety of what he recorded - rockabilly, folk tunes, tales of gunslingers and Indians, scores of novelty numbers, gospel, Americana kitsch, train songs, pop, and straight-ahead country, he tried it all, giving it all his own unique stamp, distinguished by his booming voice and the distinctive two-step muted rhythm picked out by his guitarist, Luther Perkins. Counting duets, he had over 130 charting singles, which is far too much for the average box set, plus those singles don't necessarily tell the full story of Cash the recording artist, since he was a prolific album artist, as well. I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar (3:00)Īssembling a comprehensive multi-disc Johnny Cash collection is a difficult task for a variety of reasons, not the least of it being the sheer number of records Cash put out in the '60s and '70s. Singin' in Vietnam Talkin' Blues (2:58)Ģ3.

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Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) (3:53)ħ. (There'll Be) Peace in the Valley (For Me) (2:46)Ģ9. I'd Just Be Fool Enough (To Fall) (2:06)Ģ8.

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