Name: Ride This Train
Brand: Johnny Cash

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

not2cd388

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2011-04-18

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Fat Cat

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Johnny Cash

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

This concept album ranks with the most thematically ambitious of Johnny Cash's career, though the title's a little misleading. Instead of a collection of train songs (the sort featured in the Cash catalogue from "Hey Porter" to "Orange Blossom Special"), he alternates the spoken-word narrative of a rail trip that crosses the country (and cuts across centuries) with songs about the characters you might meet along the way. From a Kentucky coal miner ("Loading Coal") to an Oregon logger ("Lumberjack") to a convict on a Mississippi chain gang ("Going to Memphis"), Cash inhabits the various manifestations of what he calls "the heart and muscle of this land." In "Slow Rider" he combines the folk standard "I Ride an Old Paint" with the gunfighter legend of John Wesley Hardin. The reissue of this 1960 release adds an extra cd of tracks. grat value.

Ride This Train

Music GB