Silver

by Johnny Cash

Product Description:

Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); The Carter Family, Jan Howard, George Jones (vocals); Jack Routh (acoustic & electric guitars); Brian Ahern (acoustic guitar); Bob Wootton (electric guitar); Jerry Hensley, Jack Clement (guitar); Ricky Skaggs (12-string guitar, banjo, fiddle); Alisa Jones (dulcimer); Bob Johnson (mandocello); Jack Hale, Bob Lewin (trumpet, French horn); Wayne Jackson (trumpet); Earl Ball, Charlie Cochran (piano); Marshall Grant (electric bass); W.S. Holland (drums); Mark Morris (percussion).

Recorded in 1979. Originally released on Columbia (36086). Includes liner notes by Jonny Whiteside.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

This is a multi-channel Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.

Personnel: Johnny Cash (vocals, guitar); The Carter Family, Jan Howard, George Jones (vocals); Jack Routh (acoustic & electric guitars); Brian Ahern (acoustic guitar); Bob Wootton (electric guitar); Jerry Hensley, Jack Clement (guitar); Ricky Skaggs (12-string guitar, banjo, fiddle); Alisa Jones (dulcimer); Bob Johnson (mandocello); Jack Hale, Bob Lewin (trumpet, French horn); Wayne Jackson (trumpet); Earl Ball, Charlie Cochran (piano); Marshall Grant (electric bass); W.S. Holland (drums); Mark Morris (percussion).

Recorded in 1979. Originally released on Columbia (36086). Includes liner notes by Jonny Whiteside.

Dulcimer? French horn? Mandocello? These are not instruments traditionally associated with the music of Johnny Cash. Yet 1979's SILVER features the Man in Black with these odd bedfellows, and the overall sound is given a softer, mainstream production treatment from Brian Ahern (best known for his work with Emmylou Harris). While fans of Cash's usual rough-hewn aesthetic may take affront at such lush settings, the material here is undeniably solid.

SILVER opens with an impressive interpretation of "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore," and follows with Cash originals such as "Lonesome to the Bone," mixed in with excellent versions of "Cocaine Blues" and "Ghost Riders in the Sky." In addition to the 1979 pressing's duet with George Jones ("I'll Say It's True"), the 2002 reissue contains additional songs with Jones on two Cash classics--"I Still Miss Someone" and "I Got Stripes." Throughout the album, Cash's warbly baritone is in top form, and his skills as a world-class yarn-spinner shine. Even dressed in high-gloss production finery, the true grit of Cash's musical personality comes blazing through.

Dulcimer? French horn? Mandocello? These are not instruments traditionally associated with the music of Johnny Cash. Yet 1979's SILVER features the Man in Black with these odd bedfellows, and the overall sound is given a softer, mainstream production treatment from Brian Ahern (best known for his work with Emmylou Harris). While fans of Cash's usual rough-hewn aesthetic may take affront at such lush settings, the material here is undeniably solid.

SILVER opens with an impressive interpretation of "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore," and follows with Cash originals such as "Lonesome to the Bone," mixed in with excellent versions of "Cocaine Blues" and "Ghost Riders in the Sky." In addition to the 1979 pressing's duet with George Jones ("I'll Say It's True"), the 2002 reissue contains additional songs with Jones on two Cash classics--"I Still Miss Someone" and "I Got Stripes." Throughout the album, Cash's warbly baritone is in top form, and his skills as a world-class yarn-spinner shine. Even dressed in high-gloss production finery, the true grit of Cash's musical personality comes blazing through.