Johnny Cash – Original Sun Sound Music CD

$14.95

Johnny Cash – Original Sun Sound Music CD

Name: Johnny Cash – Original Sun Sound Music CD
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SKU: 177642332
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The Sun Records years made Johnny Cash. Between 1955 and 1958, he and the Tennessee Two built a sound so stark and original that it reshaped what country music could be, and Sam Phillips recognized it immediately. These recordings capture an artist in the process of becoming himself, moving from the raw, Hank Williams-shadowed energy of a newcomer into the lean, authoritative voice that would carry him through six decades.

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.

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