Title: Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash Artist: Johnny Cash Label: Sun Records Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 015047818020 Genre: Country Release Date: 2026-07-24 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: REMASTERED
Never released on CD, and unreleased until 1964, six years after Johnny Cash's 1958 departure from Sun for Columbia Records, Original Sun Sound spans both his first and final recordings for the label. The early "Wide Open Road" shows the singer still under influence of Hank Williams (as well being a rarity in featuring the steel guitar of A.W. "Red" Kernodle, who left the group shortly afterwards), but the sardonic, Charlie Rich-penned "Thanks a Lot," from one of his final Sun sessions, finds Cash beholden to no one but himself. There's also Cash's self-penned gospel song, "Belshazzar," an unusual inclusion in that his producer, Sam Phillips, usually recorded only the performer's secular material.
Tracks: 1.1 Always Alone 1.2 Country Boy 1.3 Goodnight Irene 1.4 Wide Open Road 1.5 Thanks A Lot 1.6 Big River 1.7 Belshazzar 1.8 Born To Lose 1.9 New Mexico 1.10 I Forgot To Remember To Forget 1.11 Two Timin' Woman 1.12 The Story Of A Broken Heart
