Premiere Event, Co-Hosted By The Museum and BMI, celebrates acclaimed Singer-Songwriter’s return to Nashville to showcase songs from The List

Due October 6th, The List features contemporary interpretations of songs from a list of Essential Country Songs passed on to Cash by her legendary father

With her first-ever covers album The List due from Manhattan Records on October 6, 2009, acclaimed singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash and her band will showcase several of its stunning songs at a very special invitation-only performance event at the Country Music Hall of Fame© and Museum in Nashville on September 15th, 2009.

Rosanne Cash has accepted this invitation to return to Nashville to showcase The List at an event co-hosted by the Museum and Broadcast Music, Inc. [BMI] as a way to honor her father Johnny’s legacy, as well as to pay tribute to the artists whose songs she re-interprets, and to the songs themselves. Each song was written or popularized by a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame or by an artist who seems destined for that honor. Most of the songs are licensed by BMI.

The List features Cash’s contemporary interpretations of 12 classic songs culled from a list of essential country tunes that Johnny gave her in 1973, and filtered through her own unique perspective.

Produced and arranged by Grammy Award winner John Leventhal (Cash’s husband), the album includes Cash’s covers of songs written and/or recorded by The Carter Family (“Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow”), Hank Williams (“Take These Chains From My Heart”), Jimmie Rodgers (“Miss The Mississippi and You”), Hank Cochran/Patsy Cline (“She’s Got You”), Merle Haggard (“Silver Wings”), and Bob Dylan (“Girl From the North Country,” famously done by Dylan and Johnny Cash in 1969).

“I could not think of a more perfect union of entities to launch The List than myself, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which is the repository and protector of so many important treasures and artifacts of my family, and BMI, my performing-rights organization for the past 35 years, which comprises my entire life as a songwriter,” Cash says. “The songs on The List are the very songs that BMI and the Hall of Fame exist to honor, share, archive, and perpetuate. I am thrilled to premiere The List with the family-like support of both organizations, in a city where these songs have never faded in relevancy.”

“Rosanne’s new collection is as cutting edge and deeply personal as anything she has ever recorded,” says Museum Director Kyle Young. “By making them her own, she has made each of these historically important songs sound newly minted. With her quicksilver, drop-dead voice and careful interpretation of these golden standards, Rosanne gives us proof positive that the past has meaning in the present. As we endeavor to preserve the many chapters of country music’s evolving history so that new generations can understand and benefit from its cultural importance, we welcome Rosanne Cash as country-music royalty. We are honored to join BMI in presenting Rosanne’s premiere performance of music from The List.”

“This project combines a great BMI artist, Rosanne, and timeless songs with the blessing of Johnny Cash,” says Jody Williams, BMI’s vice president of writer-publisher relations. “This significant slice of BMI’s repertoire is cast in the most respectful and artistic light, so we’re very proud to be involved.”

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Acclaimed singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash will release her 12th studio album, entitled ‘The List’, on Manhattan Records on October 6th, 2009.

This stunning work features Cash’s contemporary interpretations of 12 classic songs culled from a list of essential country tunes that her legendary father Johnny Cash gave her in 1973, and filtered through her own unique, sophisticated perspective.

Known primarily for her stellar songwriting, Cash showcases her incredible voice on The List — her first-ever covers record. As a result, the album is Rosanne Cash like you’ve never heard her before as she embraces her heritage and sings for the pure love and beauty of these songs which have shaped who she is as an artist.

The idea for The List came about while Cash was on tour promoting her 2006 studio album, the critically heralded, Grammy-nominated Black Cadillac — a reflective song cycle about the loss of her father, mother Vivian Liberto, and stepmother June Carter Cash.

During the well-received multi-media event Black Cadillac: In Concert, Cash told audiences how, when she was 18, her father became alarmed that his daughter appeared to lack a deep understanding of country music (having been obsessed with The Beatles and steeped in Southern California rock and pop music). Johnny gave her a list of the “100 Essential Country Songs” and told her that it was her education and she should learn them all.

“The list was far-ranging and thorough,” Cash says. “It was assembled from my father’s intuitive understanding of each critical juncture in the evolution of country music. There were old Appalachian folk ballads, and the songs of Jimmie Rodgers and Woody Guthrie. The influence of gospel and Southern blues were crucial. Then he segued into rockabilly and the birth of modern country music by way of Hank Williams, and up to the present, which was then 1973. He also included a couple of his own songs. I endeavored to learn them all and it was an education,” she says. “I looked to that list as a standard of excellence, and to remind myself of the tradition from which I come. This album enables me to validate the connection to my heritage rather than run away from it, and to tie all the threads together: past and future, legacy and youth, tradition the timelessness.”

Through her stylish interpretations, Cash manages to transcend genre on The List, proving that these songs deserve a permanent place in the American Songbook.

Produced and arranged by Grammy-Award winner John Leventhal (Cash’s husband, who also contributes striking guitar work throughout), The List includes Cash’s covers of songs by The Carter Family (“Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow”), Hank Williams (“Take These Chains From My Heart”), Jimmie Rodgers (“Miss The Mississippi and You”), Hank Cochran / Patsy Cline (“She’s Got You”), Merle Haggard (“Silver Wings”), and Bob Dylan (“Girl From the North Country,” famously done by Dylan and Johnny Cash in 1969).

The album also features a host of special guests whom Cash admires, including Bruce Springsteen (on “Sea of Heartbreak”), Elvis Costello (on “Heartaches by the Number”), Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy (on “Long Black Veil”), and Rufus Wainwright (on “Silver Wings”).

The List is the first album Cash has made since she underwent surgery in 2007 for a benign brain condition, from which she has fully recovered. When it came time to record a new album, Cash was happy to step back from the heavy themes of Black Cadillac and do a covers record that showcased her voice. It also has enabled her to finally share with the world the list of songs her father passed down to her alone.

“If my father had been a martial arts master, he might have passed a martial arts ‘secret’ on to me, his oldest child,” Cash says. “If he had been a surgeon, he might have taken me into his operating room and pointed out the arteries and organs. If he were a robber baron, he might have surveyed his empire and said, ‘Honey, some day this will all be yours!’. But he was a musician and a songwriter, and he gave me The List.”

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The track-listing for The List is as follows:

1. “Miss the Mississippi and You”
2. “Motherless Children”
3. “Sea of Heartbreak” (w/ Bruce Springsteen)
4. “Take These Chains From My Heart”
5. “I’m Movin’ On”
6. “She’s Got You”
7. “Heartaches by the Number” (w/ Elvis Costello)
8. “500 Miles”
9. “Long Black Veil” (w/ Jeff Tweedy)
10. “Silver Wings” (w/ Rufus Wainwright)
11. “Girl From the North Country”
12. “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow”

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Compadre Records/Music World Music has announced the release of Johnny Cash Remixed, featuring bold new interpretations of Johnny Cash classics from top music remixers and producers who were recruited to take the original master recordings and infuse them with the sounds and technology of modern music styles such as hip hop and dance music.

The album, which includes a performance from Snoop Dogg, will be available in stores and online on January 27, 2009. A vinyl deluxe-edition is available in select independent record stores.

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Johnny Cash Remixed is a tribute to the legacy of an American music icon whose work has touched every contemporary genre, and has the blessing and support of the custodians of Johnny Cash’s legacy.

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“My father made his stead by defying the expected and accepted way of things” says John Carter Cash son of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash and Executive Producer of the Academy Award(c)-winning film, Walk the Line. “He set the standard at the same time. He would have loved this remix record. While it stays true to the original recordings, this CD touches on undiscovered ground. This is what my father was about: staying true to tradition while creating groundbreaking new music.”

Johnny Cash classics were licensed from Cash’s first record label, the legendary Sun Records, also the first record label home of luminaries such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison. The original tracks, recorded with Cash’s first band the Tennessee Two from 1956-1959, were pure and stark, with only the essentials; guitar, light percussion and Johnny Cash’s unmistakable voice and presence. The new mixes maintain this fantastic charm and personality while filing out the sound and creating daring re-interpretations.

The remixed tracks (and remixers) include “I Walk The Line” featuring Snoop Dogg (QDT, the new production team led by Snoop Dogg – featuring Snoop, Teddy Riley and DJ Quik), “Country Boy” (Sonny J, whose album was released in August on Astralwerks US), “Get Rhythm” (Philip Steir, the only remixer allowed to work with the Reprise Records Frank Sinatra collection), “Leave that Junk Alone” (Alabama 3, creators of The Sopranos theme song), “Folsom Prison Blues” (the legendary Pete Rock), “Hey Porter” (Mocean Worker, whose remix of Elvis Presley’s “Burnin’ Love” was used as a soundtrack to Honda’s Superbowl TV commercial), “Sugartime” (Kennedy, cornerstone of the new UK Dirty Pop movement), “Trail To Mexico” (indie favorite Mexican Institute of Sound/MIS), “Doin’ My Time” (The Heavy, critically-acclaimed UK-based band) and “Wide Open Road” (Count de Money) among others.

A documentary following the making will be included with the album, and was produced by Phear Creative in NYC. This short film features interviews from select remixers, filmed in their home studios, including Snoop Dogg captured at the Cash Recording Cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

Johnny Cash Remixed is Executive Produced by John Carter Cash, Snoop Dogg, and Mathew Knowles for Music World Productions, Inc. and Co-Executive Produced by Brad Turcotte for Compadre Records/Music World Music and Gregg DeMammos for DeMammos Entertainment.

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Roy and Barbara Orbison

With his voice, his look and being known as one of the nicest guys in showbiz, many music fans and fellow musicians alike will agree that Roy Orbison was one of a kind. From the beginning of his career in Texas, playing the same venues as Buddy Holly, his time at Sun Records in Memphis alongside Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, causing riots at shows, his lifelong friendship with Johnny Cash, touring with the Beatles – you would think that alone would be enough to seal the legendary status that would follow Roy Orbison’s career up until and after his untimely death in 1988 at the age of 52.

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“Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.” – Ringo Starr

However, unbelievably, there was much more to Roy’s life, which included family tragedies, the ups and downs of the music industry and the eventual resurgence of his career in the 1980s. He collaborated with Emmylou Harris as a duet on “That Lovin’ You Feelin’ Again”, with the song going on to win a Grammy Award in 1981, “In Dreams” was featured in the 1986 David Lynch film Blue Velvet – which would in turn inspire Bono from U2 to write the beautiful “She’s A Mystery To Me”, in 1987 he re-recorded his 1961 hit “Crying” with k.d. lang, which earned him another Grammy and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Roy’s marriage to Barbara is another incredible story, alongside his musical career. Barbara, originally from Bielefeld, Germany, had been spending time in England when she met Roy in 1968 while he was on tour in Britain. She was eighteen when they married the next year. They went on to have two boys together, Roy Kelton Jr. and Alexander Orbie Lee as well as Wesley Orbison by Roy’s first wife Claudette.

Barbara Orbison

In the ’80s she managed Roy’s career and was the Executive Producer of his 1987 album, In Dreams: The Greatest Hits. She was responsible for, and helped to produce the very successful 1988 TV music special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, which featured Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Steven Soles with backing vocals by k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt and now there’s the release of the 4 CD Box Set, ‘The Soul Of Rock And Roll‘, compiled by Roy Kelton Jr., it includes liner notes, demos, live recordings and 12 previously unreleased cuts spanning his entire career. Today, Barbara continues to watch over Roy Orbison’s music and business affairs as well as her own music publishing company, “Still Working Music”.

At the beginning of my phone interview with Barbara, I was a little nervous, but eventually things settled and our conversation became relaxed, as though I was talking to an old friend. It’s amazing to think that the woman on the other end of the line was the inspiration for one of my favorite Roy Orbison songs, “You Got It”.

Jenny May: Did Roy have a lot of input on the backing vocal arrangements of his songs?

Barbara Orbison: He wrote all of those – he was quite an architect.

What was one of your favorite “Roy Orbison” moments – is there a particular live performance that stands out?

I loved him…they were all good moments…I always loved that he would hardly ever give encores, he was very tough to push into an encore, but sometimes the crowd, I mean they would always push him into one, two, but sometimes they would push him into seven encores of “Running Scared” or “Crying”. I loved it.

Who stands out as someone that Roy liked singing with the most?

He was a solo singer, but there was The Traveling Wilburys (Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan), or when he did the Black and White Night or the Class of ‘55 (Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins), so you can really see that he loved being part of a group as well.

Were there many songs that he wrote about you?

Yes there were and there’s some on the Box Set, like there’s a song called “Precious”, “You Got It” was for me, there were many…”California Blue”.

What was one of Roy’s favorite performances by another artist, of one of his songs?

One of his songs…you know, of course he loved Linda Ronstadt’s “Blue Bayou”, Van Halen “Pretty Woman”, Tom Jones sang “In Dreams”…there were many people that have sung Roy songs…k.d. lang sang “Crying”.

The story about Bono and how “She’s A Mystery To Me” (watch Bono’s video interview) came together seems a very special story…

Yes it was special as we didn’t really know Bono, and we went to a concert because of a mutual friend of T-Bone Burnett. I had listened to the band, Bono and the U2 album, and I had seen them in LA, but Roy was on tour and we happened to be in London, and so when we walked backstage, it was like Bono had been waiting for Roy and he said, “Oh my God I can’t believe you walked in, I had been listening to ‘In Dreams’ all night long”, and they started writing the song together.

It’s beautiful. How did Roy feel about singing that – did he talk a lot about how that came together?

Bono and Roy met and they really became good friends through it and they would meet and talk and structure the song. So Bono came in to LA and produced that song and it was just so amazing.

Did the two of you spend much time in England together?

All the time.

Did you have a favorite place here?

We loved England. London would be our favorite place. Some of the coastal sites were great. It was like a second home. I mean, it still is, I’m calling you from my flat now.

I wasn’t sure where you were. Are you in London?

Yes.

Not too far from me. I’m in Oxford.

I love Oxford too.

Yes, me too. With the release of the Soul of Rock And Roll box set, I know that your son had a lot to do with getting the songs together, but was there a special process of selecting the songs?

There was. The process was an incredible, tedious one, because you have to select everything that reflects the artist’s work, and the sense of history, and then you have to line them up. You know, with you being a musician you know that one song doesn’t flow into the other one easily. You can see that this 4 CD Box Set plays so well because Roy Kelton just lined it up where it would flow, he’s a musician, I just know by when he started working on it because I would see all these little pieces of paper that would say one song is 2.8 minutes one is 3.4 one is a ballad one has a guitar part in there that corresponds to the other one…you know, you will so enjoy, Jenny, listening to the CDs.

I’m looking forward to it, and it sounds like he put a lot of time and care in selecting the songs and the order of them.

Yes – and you know I can’t wait for you to write your blog, because we write blogs for Roy in America too. My son would love to see it when it comes out…there’s always so much of Roy coming out. We’re doing a big salute to him with bands and everything.

I can’t wait. In the first band that I sang with back when I was seventeen, the band would sometimes go out and do Roy Orbison songs for a night and he would pack the places. I sang back up with this other woman and it was one of the most exciting experiences, singing those parts.

They were quite difficult to sing, I always get that feedback, but do you still have some recordings from those nights?

I’ll have to get back in touch with the band to find out – but people absolutely loved going out to those shows.

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Barbara wanted me to be sure to mention that there’s a BBC documentary in December 2008 and a BBC radio show with lots of good things coming out about Roy. She also has her special pet project: to petition for Roy Orbison to get a stamp in America. She asked that readers go to the website to sign up for the stamp petition. She said, “Bill Clinton, Bono, everybody has signed it, it’s totally safe.”

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By: Jenny May

“To me his voice sounds like the wind forming words and being sent to you from across time. His voice is so alone it defies comparison.” – Tom Waits

“Roy’s ballads were always best when you were alone in the dark. They were scary. His voice was unearthly.” – Bruce Springsteen

On October 13, 2008 (UK), Sony BMG & Orbison Records are proud to release The Soul Of Rock And Roll, the long-awaited definitive 4 CD box set of 107 seminal recordings including demos, live recordings and 12 previously unreleased cuts spanning the entire career of the profoundly influential American singer, songwriter and performer, Roy Orbison.

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The Soul Of Rock And Roll, the centerpiece release of Sony BMG’s mammoth Roy Orbison Reissue Project, is the first truly comprehensive Roy Orbison collection, an historic career-spanning compilation of breathtaking scope and variety drawn from all phases of Orbison’s musical history.

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Disc One of the collection opens with a previously unreleased recording of “Ooby Dooby” Roy’s early group the Teen Kings followed by “Hey! Miss Fannie,” an Ahmet Ertegun composition performed by Roy’s first band, The Wink Westerners, in Dallas in 1955.

The first disc of The Soul Of Rock And Roll continues with a series of Orbison’s 1950s recordings including Teen Kings sides cut with Norman Petty in 1956 and 1957 at Petty’s legendary studio in Clovis, New Mexico as well an unreleased cover of Little Richard’s “Tutti Frutti” from 1956.

Also featured on disc one are an ample selection of Orbison’s early Sun Records rockabilly recordings, produced by Sam Phillips, including both sides of his first US chart hit, 1956’s “Ooby Dooby” and “Go! Go! Go!” and several unreleased demos including “Claudette,” “Night Owl” and “Love Struck” from 1958. The first disc’s fascinating cross section of Orbison’s groundbreaking 1950s roots includes the previously unreleased “Guitar Pull Medley: I Want You, I Need You, I Love You/I Was The One/That’s All Right/Mary Lou/You’re My Baby” recorded in Galveston, Texas in 1956 featuring Roy Orbison solo on guitar and vocal. The disc closes with Orbison’s 1958 RCA Victor single, “Almost Eighteen,” produced by Chet Atkins and a pair of his early 50’s sides for Monument: “With The Bug” and “Pretty One.”

Disc Two of Roy Orbison’s The Soul Of Rock And Roll focuses on the artist’s watershed recordings for Monument in the early 1960s, bringing together emotionally wrenching hits like “Love Hurts,” “Blue Bayou” and “Only The Lonely” with career-defining masterpieces like “Oh, Pretty Woman”, and “Crying” and “In Dreams” alongside a selection of rare b-sides from the period.

Disc Three continues with the Monument years with live recordings from the era and some of his strongest studio work including the signature classic, “Oh Pretty Woman,” Roy’s biggest hit and one of the most immediately recognized and popular rock songs of all time. The third disc of The Soul Of Rock And Roll includes many of the singles Roy recorded for MGM as well as the Orbison songs from the films “Zabriskie Point” and “The Fastest Guitar Alive,” the MGM western-musical which marked Orbison’s only starring role in a movie. Disc three premieres a demo recording from the late 1960s of an Orbison composition, “Precious,” and a previously unreleased live recording of Chris Kenner’s “Land of 1000 Dances” from 1972. Disc Three also includes Roy’s duet with Emmylou Harris, “That Lovin’ You Feelin’ Again,” (from the motion picture “Roadie”) which won a Grammy in 1981 for Best Country Performance by a Group or Duo.

Disc Four of The Soul Of Rock And Roll collects a fantastic range of recordings from Orbison’s creative renaissance of the 1980s including tracks from the Grammy-winning ‘Class of ‘55′ album with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins; the 1987 recording of “In Dreams” from “Blue Velvet” produced by T Bone Burnett, Roy Orbison and David Lynch; “Not Alone Any More,” one of Orbison’s tracks with the Traveling Wilburys; Orbison’s Virgin Records singles: “You Got It” and “California Blue” produced by Jeff Lynne, “She’s A Mystery To Me” produced by Bono, and “Crying,” his duet with k.d. lang produced by Don Was; songs from Roy’s final studio album, ‘Mystery Girl,’ and tracks from the acclaimed television special, “A Black And White Night Live” including Roy’s Grammy-winning performance of “Oh Pretty Woman” with Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello on backing vocals. The fourth disc of The Soul Of Rock And Roll also includes a selection of tracks from Roy’s posthumous release, “The King of Hearts” and well as Orbison’s tracks for the films “Insignificance” (”Wild Hearts Run Out Of Time”), “The End of Violence” (”You May Feel Me Crying” produced by Brian Eno), and “Less Than Zero” (”Life Fades Away” produced by Rick Rubin).

Executive produced by Barbara Orbison, Roy’s widow, and compiled by Roy Kelton Orbison Jr, Roy’s son, The Soul Of Rock And Roll comes in a limited edition deluxe box set covered in white linen with an 80 page book featuring new liner notes from Barbara Orbison, Fred Foster, Joe Melson, Roy Orbison Jr and a host of testimonials from friends and fans including Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Dolly Parton, Glenn Danzig, Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Lemmy Kilmister, Chris Isaak, Clint Black, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, K.D. Lang, Elvis Costello, and Neil Diamond.

Tracklisting:

(Information subject to change.)

Disc One

1. Ooby Dooby (The Teen Kings) (previously unreleased)
2. Hey! Miss Fannie (The Wink Westerners)
3. A True Love Goodbye (The Teen Kings)
4. An Empty Cup And A Broken Date (The Teen Kings)
5. Tryin’ To Get To You (The Teen Kings)
6. Tutti Frutti
7. Advertisement: Overton Park Shell Concert (June 1, 1956; Memphis)
8. Ooby Dooby
9. Cat Called Domino
10. Go! Go! Go!
11. Rockhouse
12. Guitar Pull Medley: I Want You, I Need You, I Love You/I Was The One/That’s All Right/Mary Lou/You’re My Baby (previously unreleased)
13. You’re My Baby
14. Mean Little Mama
15. Problem Child
16. One More Time (demo)
17. You’re Gonna Cry
18. It’s Too Late
19. Sweet And Easy To Love
20. This Kind Of Love
21. Claudette (demo)
22. You Tell Me (previously unreleased demo)
23. Night Owl (previously unreleased demo)
24. Bad Cat (previously unreleased demo)
25. I Give Up (previously unreleased demo)
26. Love Struck (previously unreleased demo)
27. Baby Don’t Stop (previously unreleased demo)
28. Defeated (previously unreleased demo)
29. Love Storm (previously unreleased demo)
30. Almost Eighteen
31. With The Bug
32. Pretty One

Disc Two

1. Uptown
2. Only The Lonely
3. Blue Angel
4. In Dreams
5. Running Scared
6. I’m Hurtin’
7. (I’d Be) A Legend In My Time
8. Love Hurts
9. Lana
10. Crying
11. Candy Man
12. Night Life
13. (They Call You) Gigolette
14. Let The Good Times Roll
15. Blue Bayou
16. Wedding Day
17. Dream Baby
18. Evergreen
19. Working For The Man
20. The Crowd
21. Leah
22. The Actress
23. Borne On The Wind
24. Falling
25. Indian Wedding
26. Shahdaroba
27. All I Have To Do Is Dream
28. Mama
29. Pretty Paper

Disc Three

1. Mean Woman Blues
2. What’d I Say (live in Holland – Combo Concert)
3. It’s Over
4. Oh, Pretty Woman
5. Yo Te Amo Maria
6. Goodnight
7. (Say) You’re My Girl
8. Ride Away
9. Crawling Back
10. Breakin’ Up Is Breakin’ My Heart
11. Too Soon To Know
12. Communication Breakdown
13. Walk On
14. So Young (from the motion picture Zabriskie Point)
15. Blue Rain (Coming Down)
16. Big As I Can Dream
17. Pistolero (from the motion picture The Fastest Guitar Alive)
18. The Fastest Guitar Alive (from the motion picture The Fastest Guitar Alive)
19. Precious (previously unreleased demo)
20. Unchained Melody
21. Land Of 1000 Dances (live in Australia)
22. Blues In My Mind
23. Born To Love Me
24. That Lovin’ You Feelin’ Again (duet with Emmylou Harris)
25. Hound Dog Man

Disc Four

1. Coming Home
2. Waymore’s Blues (with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins)
3. Oh, Pretty Woman (re-record)
4. In Dreams (from the motion picture Blue Velvet)
5. Not Alone Any More (Traveling Wilburys)
6. You Got It
7. She’s A Mystery To Me
8. California Blue
9. A Love So Beautiful
10. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You (live – Black And White Night)
11. Oh, Pretty Woman (live – Black And White Night)
12. Heartbreak Radio
13. You’re The One
14. Crying (duet with k.d. lang)
15. After The Love Has Gone
16. I Drove All Night
17. Wild Hearts Run Out Of Time (from the motion picture Insignificance)
18. You May Feel Me Crying (from the motion picture The End Of Violence)
19. Life Fades Away (from the motion picture Less Than Zero)
20. It’s Over (live – from Roy’s final concert) (previously unreleased)
21. We’ll Take The Night

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I’ve been listening to ‘Legend – The Best Of Willie Nelson’ and “Whiskey River” just came on. I love that song – and hearing it brings back so many memories of back home in the States.

There was a group of us that on special occasions would pull out the ol’ Willie Nelson CDs, late night, after a few beers – and just sing along to his classic songs like “On The Road Again”, “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain”, “Always On My Mind” and of course, our favorite, “Whiskey River”. Luckily all of those songs are included on the ‘Legend’ CD as well as many more.

It’s great to hear Waylon Jennings‘ voice on “Good Hearted Woman”, Merle Haggard singing with Willie on “Pancho and Lefty” and Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson Willie and Waylon on “Highwayman”.

There are 20 songs on the album – and one stand out track that I hadn’t heard before is “Seven Spanish Angels” with Ray Charles.

The one time that I was lucky enough to see Willie Nelson play live was in Austin, Texas – just down the road from his house at The Backyard. The show was sold out, but my friend and I went anyway, hoping that we might find a way in. Or out actually, since the show was outside. Anyway…long story short we were able to get in – and what a night we had. Watching Willie Nelson singing on that stage – outside under the large Oak trees and being able to hear those classic songs played live was incredible.

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By: Jenny May – BandWeblogs.com

Singer. Rebel. Outlaw. Hero. With his driving freight-train chords, steel-eyed intensity and a voice as dark as the night, the legendary “Man in Black”, Johnny Cash, revolutionized music and forged his legacy as a genuine American icon.

The music of the “Man in Black,” continues to rock when Walk the Line Extended Cut arrives on two-disc DVD March 25th, 2008 from Fox Home Entertainment.

Featuring over 17 minutes of footage, Walk the Line Extended Cut includes director commentary as well as a bonus disc packed with Grammy® award-winning performances, deleted scenes, and more.

The multi-award winning film from director James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma, Girl, Interrupted ), stars Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon (Election, Vanity Fair), as the rebellious musician and his lifelong-love and savior June Carter.

“Brilliant. Masterful,” (The Wall Street Journal), Walk The Line garnered multiple awards including Reese Witherspoon’s Oscar® for Best Performance by an Actress, and three Golden Globes® including Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, as well as Best Performance by an Actor and Actress.

Featuring performances by the cast-themselves, the Walk the Line soundtrack won Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media at the 2007 Grammy Awards.

DVD Special Features:

The widescreen version of the Walk the Line Extended Cut two-disc DVD feature DTS and Dolby 5.1 audio presentations with optional Spanish and French Dolby Surround and subtitles in English or Spanish with the following DVD extras:

Disc 1

Widescreen Extended Cut
Commentary with co-writer and director James Mangold

Disc 2
(* = Never before seen extras)

Johnny Cash Jukebox: Eight Walk The Line Extended Musical Sequences with New Introductions
* “Lewis Boogie” – Waylon Payne as Jerry Lee Lewis
* “Get Rhythm” – Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash
* “You’re My Baby” – Johnathan Rice as Roy Orbison
* “Jukebox Blues” – Reese Witherspoon as June Carter
“Rock and Roll Ruby” – Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash
* “That’s Alright Mama” – Tyler Hilton as Elvis Presley
“Jackson” – Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter
“Cocaine Blues” – Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash

More Men in Black: Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by co-writer and director James Mangold

“Memphis Streets”
“At the Bank”
* Becoming Cash / Becoming Carter featurette
* Sun Records & The Johnny Cash Sound featurette
* The Cash Legacy featurette
Folsom: Cash & the Comeback featurette
Ring of Fire: The Passion of Johnny & June featurette
Cash and his Faith featurette
Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line featurette
Walk the Line Theatrical Trailer

Walk the Line (Extended Cut) on amazon.com

Walk The Line website

Johnny Cash, the Man in Black (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003). Happy birthday, Johnny.

Sony BMG is set to release ‘Johnny Cash Live At Osteraker Prison’ on 3rd March 2008 in the UK.

After 35 Years, this legendary concert can now be owned on CD – featuring 12 bonus tracks not featured on the original LP.

This rediscovered gem is now available to buy on CD. The lost prison album has been resurrected which is bound to delight fans of Johnny Cash ‘Live From San Quentin’ and ‘Live From Folsom Prison’. ‘Johnny Cash Live At Osteraker Prison’ has been expanded with new liner notes and remastered with 12 bonus tracks. The album shot into the top 30 when it was released in Sweden. In fact, the liner notes are written by Borje Lundberg – co-author of Hello, Sweden! I’m Johnny Cash.

This electrifying concert recording includes a raucous instrumental version of “I Walk The Line” as well as other classics such as “Folsom Prison Blues”, “Me & Bobby McGee”, “San Quentin” and “Blue Suede Shoes” by Carl Perkins.

Johnny Cash opened with “A Boy Named Sue” for a fully-seated auditorium and for the next hour continued with some of his biggest hits and fan favorites. To commemorate the day, Johnny had learned a few Swedish words: “Thank you my friends, I hope you like our music.”

He was a passionate man, but the country star was particularly interested with the downtrodden. Prisoners. Though playing shows in prisons was not unusual to Johnny (San Quentin, Folsom State Prison) – he had never performed at a prison outside the U.S.A. when he took the stage at 1:10 p.m. on October 3, 1972 at Osteraker Prison north of Stockholm, Sweden.

One of the last great Johnny Cash albums to finally see a release on CD, this truly is a must-have for all fans of the man who walked the line

‘Johnny Cash Live At Osteraker Prison’ track listing:

1. I Walk The Line (instrumental) *
2. A Boy Named Sue *
3. Sunday Morning Coming Down *
4. Osteraker [San Quentin]
5. Me and Bobby McGee
6. Orleans Parish Prison
7. Jacob Green
8. Life Of A Prisoner
9. The Prisoners Song
10. Folsom Prison Blues
11. City Jail
12. Help Me Make it Though the Night
13. That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine
14. The Invertebraes
15. Lookin’ Back in Anger
16. I Saw a Man
17. High Heel Sneakers (Carl Perkins) *
18. Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins) *
19. Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog
20. Wreck of The Old 97
21. I Promise You *
22. Nobody Cared
23. San Quentin *
24. Folsom Prison Blues (instrumental) *

* Not on the original LP. Previously unreleased.

Original album released by Columbia Records in 1973.

Original recordings produced by Larry Butler & Charlie Bragg

Pa Osteraker: Live at Osteraker Prison, Sweden 3; 35th Anniversary Edition on amazon.co.uk

Pa Osteraker on amazon.com

Johnny Cash on Myspace
Johnny Cash Official Website

I’ve always thought that just before (and/or after) that particular performance that ’something’ must have been going on between them. I’m a singer and even I know that you can’t fake that kind of chemistry up on stage.

Watch The Old Grey Whistle Test video of Rita Coolidge and Kris Kristofferson performing “Help Me Make It Through The Night”

Of course there are other versions of “Help Me Make It Through The Night”, which was written by Kris Kristofferson. Most people are probably familiar with the version by the late Sammi Smith from 1971. She’s the one who made the song famous with a #1 country hit, and in turn became famous herself because of it.

Johnny Cash and June Carter also performed “Help Me Make It Through The Night”.

Watch a video of Sammi Smith singing “Help Me Make It Through The Night”

Watch a video of Johnny Cash and June Carter performing “Help Me Make It Through The Night”

Rita Coolidge Website
Kris Kristofferson Official Website

By: Jenny May