Johnny Cash

The Man in Black: 1963-1969

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AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The Man in Black: 1963-1969 is Bear Family's fourth box set of Johnny Cash recordings and the third in The Man In Black series. 1963-1969 picks up where the previous Man In Black box left off -- in the beginning of the '60s, after Cash established himself as a hitmaker for Columbia. It collects all of the music Cash made for Columbia Records between 1963 and 1969, including outtakes and alternate versions but not the albums that were issued on the Come Along and Ride This Train set. Again, this collection is more for collectors and scholars than fans. There is terrific music here, but the strict chronological order -- sequenced by the session date, not release date -- makes listening to each disc somewhat tiring.

Track Listing - Disc 1

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	Ring of Fire June Carter Cash / Merle Kilgore	Johnny Cash	2:39
2	The Matador Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	2:48
3	I'd Still Be There Johnny Cash / Johnny Horton	Johnny Cash	2:35
4	Still in Town Hank Cochran / Harlan Howard	Johnny Cash	2:39
5	El Matador J. Bowers / Irving Burgess / June Carter Cash / Merle Travis	Johnny Cash	2:47
6	Fuego d'Amor (Anillo de Fuego) June Carter Cash / Merle Kilgore	Johnny Cash	2:37
7	My Old Faded Rose Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	2:54
8	It Ain't Me Babe Bob Dylan	Johnny Cash	3:06
9	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Bob Dylan	Johnny Cash	2:58
10	One Too Many Mornings Bob Dylan	Johnny Cash	2:39
11	Mama, You Been on My Mind Bob Dylan	Johnny Cash	3:04
12	Long Black Veil Danny Dill / Marijohn Wilkin	Johnny Cash	3:09
13	The Wall Harlan Howard	Johnny Cash	2:14
14	Orange Blossom Special Ervin T. Rouse	Johnny Cash	3:10
15	Troublesome Waters Mother Maybelle Carter / Dixie Deen	Johnny Cash	3:52
16	I Walk the Line Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:36
17	Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:35
18	Wreck of the Old '97 Norman Blake / Johnny Cash / Bob Johnson	Johnny Cash	2:48
19	Hey Porter Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:22
20	Big River Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:21
21	All of God's Children Ain't Free Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:15
22	Amen Jester Hairston	Johnny Cash	2:08
23	When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below) Tillman Franks / Johnny Horton	Johnny Cash	2:39
24	You Wild Colorado Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	1:47
25	Danny Boy Frederick Edward Weatherly	Johnny Cash	4:12
26	I Still Miss Someone Johnny Cash / Roy Cash	Johnny Cash	3:10
27	Give My Love to Rose Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:24
28	Goodbye Little Darlin' Goodbye Gene Autry / Johnny Marvin	Johnny Cash	2:26

Track Listing - Disc 2

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	Dark as a Dungeon Merle Travis	Johnny Cash	2:30
2	Bottom of the Mountain Don McKinnon	Johnny Cash	2:29
3	Understand Your Man Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:44
4	Time and Time Again Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	2:12
5	I Still Miss Someone Johnny Cash / Roy Cash	Johnny Cash	2:35
6	Hardin Wouldn't Run Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	3:52
7	Mama, You Been on My Mind Bob Dylan	Johnny Cash	2:55
8	A Certain Kinda Hurtin' Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:02
9	My Old Faded Rose Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	2:46
10	How Did You Get Away from Me Anita Carter / Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash feat: June Carter Cash	2:02
11	Bad News John D. Loudermilk	Johnny Cash	2:57
12	Cup of Coffee Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Johnny Cash	4:45
13	Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog Jack Clement	Johnny Cash	2:26
14	The One on the Right Is on the Left Jack Clement	Johnny Cash	2:50
15	Concerning Your New Song	Johnny Cash	3:30
16	The Bug That Tried to Crawl Around the World Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:57
17	Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart Jack Clement	Johnny Cash	2:04
18	Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog Jack Clement	Johnny Cash	2:09
19	Take Me Home Jack Clement / Allen Reynolds	Johnny Cash	2:42
20	The Song of the Coward	Johnny Cash	3:36
21	Please Don't Play Red River Valley Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:56
22	Foolish Questions Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	3:11
23	The Singing Star's Queen Jackson King / Bill Mack	Johnny Cash	3:00
24	Austin Prison Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:10
25	Boa Constrictor Shel Silverstein	Johnny Cash	1:47
26	Everybody Loves a Nut Jack Clement	Johnny Cash	2:07
27	The Sound of Laughter Harlan Howard	Johnny Cash	2:40
28	Joe Bean Bud Freeman / Léon Pober	Johnny Cash	3:07

Track Listing - Disc 3

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	The Frozen Logger James Stevens	Johnny Cash	2:23
2	(I'm Proud) The Baby Is Mine Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:33
3	Happy to Be with You Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash / Merle Kilgore	Johnny Cash	3:14
4	For Lovin' Me Gordon Lightfoot	Johnny Cash	2:40
5	Wabash Cannonball A.P. Carter	Johnny Cash	2:41
6	Guess Things Happen That Way Jack Clement	Johnny Cash	1:55
7	Happiness Is You Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	2:59
8	Ancient History Irene Stanton / Wayne Walker	Johnny Cash	2:23
9	You Comb Her Hair Hank Cochran / Harlan Howard	Johnny Cash	2:42
10	A Wound Time Can't Erase Bill Johnson	Johnny Cash	2:37
11	Is This My Destiny? Helen Carter	Johnny Cash	2:31
12	Jackson Gaby Rodgers / Billy Edd Wheeler	Johnny Cash	2:48
13	Pack Up Your Sorrows Richard Fariña / Pauline Marden	Johnny Cash	2:29
14	Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man Marshall Grant	Johnny Cash	2:35
15	Fast Boat to Sydney Anita Carter / Helen Carter	Johnny Cash	2:31
16	You'll Be All Right Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	1:49
17	I Got a Woman Ray Charles / Renald Richard	Johnny Cash	3:18
18	What'd I Say Ray Charles	Johnny Cash	2:44
19	Oh, What a Good Thing We Had Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	2:46
20	No No No Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	1:52
21	Shantytown Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	2:22
22	What'd I Say Ray Charles	Johnny Cash	2:51
23	Still in Town Hank Cochran / Harlan Howard	Johnny Cash	2:36
24	The Matador Johnny Cash / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	2:47
25	Wer Kennt Den Weg (I Walk the Line) Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:35
26	In Virginia	Johnny Cash	2:11
27	Kleine Rosmarie	Johnny Cash	1:56
28	Besser So, Jenny-Jo Kurt Hertha	Johnny Cash	2:27
29	Wer Kennt Den Weg (I Walk the Line) Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:03
30	In Virginia	Johnny Cash	2:06
31	Kleine Rosmarie	Johnny Cash	1:56
32	Besser So, Jenny-Jo Kurt Hertha	Johnny Cash	2:11

Track Listing - Disc 4

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	Thunderball John Barry / Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:53
2	The Sons of Katie Elder Elmer Bernstein / Earl Sheldon	Johnny Cash	2:34
3	Put the Sugar to Bed Mother Maybelle Carter / Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:24
4	Red Velvet Ian Tyson	Johnny Cash	2:47
5	Rosanna's Going Wild Anita Carter / Helen Carter / June Carter Cash	Johnny Cash	2:00
6	The Wind Changes Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:48
7	On the Line Traditional	Johnny Cash	2:22
8	Roll Call	Johnny Cash	2:27
9	You Beat All I Ever Saw Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:10
10	I Tremble for You Johnny Cash / Lew DeWitt	Johnny Cash	2:15
11	Cattle Call Tex Owens	Johnny Cash	2:07
12	Bill's Theme Luther Perkins / Trent Tomlinson	Johnny Cash	2:11
13	Outside Looking In Carl Perkins	Johnny Cash	2:33
14	Spanish Harlem Jerry Leiber / Phil Spector	Johnny Cash	2:41
15	The Folk Singer Charlie Daniels	Johnny Cash	3:05
16	Southwind Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	3:15
17	The Devil to Pay Leon Rusk / Merle Travis	Johnny Cash	3:28
18	'Cause I Love You Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:34
19	See Ruby Fall Johnny Cash / Roy Orbison	Johnny Cash	2:51
20	Route No. 1, Box 144 Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:28
21	Sing a Traveling Song Ken Jones	Johnny Cash	3:08
22	If I Were a Carpenter Tim Hardin	Johnny Cash	3:01
23	To Beat the Devil Kris Kristofferson	Johnny Cash	4:24
24	Blistered Billy Edd Wheeler	Johnny Cash	2:24
25	Wrinkled Crinkled Wadded Dollar Bill Vince Matthews	Johnny Cash	2:32
26	I've Got a Thing About Trains Jack Clement	Johnny Cash	2:50
27	Six White Horses Larry Murray	Johnny Cash	2:45
28	Jesus Was a Carpenter Chris Wren	Johnny Cash	3:57
29	Man in Black Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:52

Track Listing - Disc 5

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	The Christmas Spirit Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	5:02
2	I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Jean Baptiste Calkin / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Johnny Cash	2:31
3	Blue Christmas Bill Hayes / Jay Johnson	Johnny Cash	2:23
4	The Gifts They Gave Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	3:32
5	Here Was a Man Johnny Bond / Tex Ritter	Johnny Cash	2:43
6	Christmas as I Knew It June Carter Cash / Jan Howard	Johnny Cash	3:40
7	Silent Night Franz Gruber / Joseph Mohr	Johnny Cash	3:29
8	The Little Drummer Boy Katherine K. Davis / Henry Onorati / Harry Simeone	Johnny Cash	2:37
9	It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Edmund Sears / Richard Storrs Willis	Johnny Cash	3:00
10	Ringing the Bells for Jim June Carter Cash / Jan Howard	Johnny Cash	2:46
11	We Are the Shepherds Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	3:13
12	Who Kept the Sheep Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	1:56
13	Ballad of the Harp Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay / Thelma Matesky Moore	Johnny Cash	4:23
14	Wildwood Flower A.P. Carter	Johnny Cash	2:13
15	Engine 143 A.P. Carter / Traditional	Johnny Cash	3:33
16	Keep on the Sunny Side A.P. Carter / Gary Garett	Johnny Cash	2:28
17	Single Girl, Married Girl A.P. Carter	Johnny Cash	2:20
18	The Banks of the Ohio A.P. Carter / Traditional	Johnny Cash	4:04
19	My Clinch Mountain Home A.P. Carter / Mother Maybelle Carter / Sara Carter	Johnny Cash	2:55
20	Lonesome Valley A.P. Carter / Woody Guthrie / Traditional	Johnny Cash	2:04
21	Worried Man Blues A.P. Carter	Johnny Cash	2:39
22	Wabash Cannonball A.P. Carter	Johnny Cash	2:31
23	Brown Hearted Lover A.P. Carter	Johnny Cash	2:23
24	Brown Eyes A.P. Carter	Johnny Cash	3:25
25	I'm Working on a Building A.P. Carter / Rev. Louis Overstreet	Johnny Cash	2:40
26	Gathering Flowers from the Hillside A.P. Carter / J.E. Mainer	Johnny Cash	2:35
27	When the Roses Bloom Again A.P. Carter / Traditional	Johnny Cash	2:37

Track Listing - Disc 6

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	Big River Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:12
2	Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	1:53
3	I Still Miss Someone Johnny Cash / Roy Cash	Johnny Cash	1:38
4	Rock Island Line Huddie Ledbetter	Johnny Cash	3:55
5	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right Bob Dylan	Johnny Cash	2:44
6	I Walk the Line Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash	2:32
7	The Ballad of Ira Hayes Peter La Farge	Johnny Cash	3:25
8	Keep On the Sunny Side A.P. Carter / Gary Garett	Johnny Cash	1:42

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