The Legend [Columbia] [Bonus CD & DVD] (2005)

About this title: There have been in the neighborhood of ten CD box sets devoted to Johnny Cash, released on Columbia, Bear Family, and Collectables (this does not count overseas releases by Sony, or budget-line repackagings of three albums into one box set). Since 2000 there have been roughly 15 new major-label compilations, and that number balloons to nearly 90 comps if various and sundry two-fers, budget-line releases, and imports are factored into the equation. Add to that number the three major reissue campaigns -- Columbia/Legacy's expanded reissues of proper '60s and '70s records, Varese's series ... read more

Tracks:

1. I Walk the Line [Cash]
2. There You Go [Cash]
3. Home of the Blues [Cash/Douglas/McAlpi]
4. Ballad of a Teenage Queen [Clement]
5. Guess Things Happen That Way [Clement]
6. The Ways of a Woman in Love [Justis/Rich]
7. Don't Take Your Guns to Town [Cash]
8. Ring of Fire [Carter/Kilgore]
9. The Matador [Carter/Cash]
10. Understand Your Man [Cash]
11. The Ballad of Ira Hayes [LaFarge]
12. Orange Blossom Special [Rouse]
13. The One on the Right Is on the Left [Clement]
14. Rosanna's Going Wild [Carter/Carter/Carte]
15. Folsom Prison Blues [Cash]
16. Daddy Sang Bass [Perkins]
17. A Boy Named Sue [Silverstein]
18. What Is Truth [Cash]
19. Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down [Kristofferson]
20. Flesh and Blood [Cash]
21. Man in Black [Cash]
22. A Thing Called Love [Reed]
23. Kate [Robbins]
24. Oney [Single Version] [Chesnut]
25. Any Old Wind That Blows [Feller]
26. One Piece at a Time [Kemp]
27. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky [Jones]
28. Hey Porter [Cash]
29. Cry, Cry, Cry [Cash]
30. Luther Played the Boogie [Cash]
31. Get Rhythm [Cash]
32. Give My Love to Rose [Cash]
33. I Was There When It Happened [Davis/Jones]
34. Big River [Cash]
35. I Still Miss Someone [Cash/Cash]
36. Pickin' Time [Cash]
37. The Man on the Hill [Cash]
38. Five Feet High and Rising [Cash]
39. Tennessee Flat-Top Box [Cash]
40. I Got Stripes [Cash/Williams]
41. Troublesome Waters [Carter/Carter/Deen]
42. The Long Black Veil [Dill/Wilkin]
43. Dark as a Dungeon [Travis]
44. The Wall [Howard]
45. 25 Minutes to Go [Silverstein]
46. Cocaine Blues [Arnall]
47. Doin' My Time [Skinner]
48. I Will Rock and Roll With You [Cash]
49. Without Love [Lowe]
50. The Big Light [Costello]
51. Highway Patrolman [Springsteen]
52. I'm Never Gonna Roam Again [Crowell]
53. When I'm Gray [Scott/Sanders]
54. Forever Young [Dylan]
55. The Wreck of the Old 97 [Traditional]
56. Rock Island Line [Ledbetter/Lomax]
57. Goodnight Irene [Ledbetter/Lomax]
58. Goodbye, Little Darlin' [Autry/Marvin]
59. Born to Lose [Brown]
60. Walking the Blues [Cash/Lunn]
61. Frankie's Man, Johnny [Cash]
62. Delia's Gone [Alternate Take] [Silbersdorf/Toops]
63. In the Jailhouse Now [Rodgers]
64. Waiting for a Train [Rodgers]
65. Casey Jones [Seibert/Newton]
66. The Legend of John Henry's Hammer [Traditional]
67. I've Been Working on the Railroad[Demo Version] [Traditional]
68. Sweet Betsy from Pike [Traditional]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.