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The Fabulous, and Complete, Johnny Cash! Legacy Announces “Columbia Album Collection”
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He’s been everywhere man, he’s been everywhere.

But now Johnny Cash is going somewhere he’s never been before: into Complete Albums territory. Though the Man in Black has been anthologized numerous times in the past (including on an indispensable set of Bear Family releases) nothing has approached the sheer magnitude of this new box set. The Complete Columbia Album Collection is a massive 63-CD, 59-album treasure trove collecting every one of Cash’s albums for the venerable label, released between 1958 and 1990. It’s coming from Columbia and Legacy Recordings on October 30, and will likely warrant a place in the collection of any serious popular music fan.

The many sides of the multi-faceted artist get full recognition here: concept albums, soundtrack contributions, gospel recordings, holiday albums, guest appearances and more. Collaborative albums featuring The Carter Family, June Carter Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, Waylon Jennings, and The Highwaymen (Cash, Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson) all are included. Each album is presented as a mini-LP CD with its original artwork, including the five deluxe gatefold albums released during Cash’s long Columbia tenure. Cash departed Columbia for Mercury in 1987 with Johnny Cash is Coming to Town, but his place as a legendary fixture on the Columbia label has continued mightily in the CD reissue era.

Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection, by the numbers:

59 original albums from Columbia debut The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958) to supergroup sequel Highwayman 2 (1990), plus Live at Madison Square Garden, recorded in 1968 and released in 2002;
35 album titles never before released on CD in the U.S. by Columbia/Legacy;
Cash’s first 19 Columbia albums, from The Fabulous Johnny Cash (1958) to From Sea to Shining Sea (1967) in original mono mixes, for the first time ever from Legacy in the U.S.;
8 live albums, including 3 internationally-released titles: Johnny Cash pa Osteraker (rec. 1972, rel. 1973), Strawberry Cake (rec. 1975, rel. 1976) and Koncert V Praze (rec. 1978, rel. 1983);
2 soundtrack albums, both from 1970: I Walk the Line and Little Fauss and Big Halsy; and
2 new compilations exclusive to this set: Johnny Cash With His Hot & Blue Guitar is a 28-song sampler of single and non-single tracks released at Sun Records (1954-58), including career-defining tracks like of “Folsom Prison Blues,” “I Walk The Line,” Hey Porter” and “Ballad of a Teenage Queen.” It’s designed as an expanded edition of his 1957 Sun LP, with that album’s famous cover design. The Singles Plus is a 2-CD set with 55 tracks (1958-1985) encompassing both singles that did not originally appear on Cash’s Columbia LPs, and a selection of guest spots on others’ albums. In the latter category, you’ll find Cash supporting the illustrious likes of Bob Dylan, The Carter Family, Mother Maybelle Carter, June Carter Cash, The Earl Scruggs Revue, Marty Robbins, Willie Nelson, and Shel Silverstein.
After the jump: the complete listing of albums, a pre-order link and more!

The Complete Columbia Album Collection is accompanied by a full-color booklet containing discographical annotation for each title including chart positions, plus new liner notes from Cash historian Rich Kienzle. It’s all housed in a boldly-designed box that resembles the lift-off lid style of the similarly-impressive Complete Miles Davis Columbia Album Collection box set from 2009. The new box set is the result of the herculean efforts of producers Gregg Geller and Steve Berkowitz, both of whom are veterans in spearheading Legacy’s long-running Cash reissue program. We’ll have more news of the exact track listing of the box set (i.e. the contents of its exclusive compilations and whether any bonus tracks have been held over from Legacy’s previously-issued expanded editions of some titles) as soon as that information can be confirmed.

This set is the latest release in an important celebration of what would have been Johnny Cash’s 80th birthday year. This year’s offerings from Legacy have included the fourth volume of The Bootleg Series entitled The Soul of Truth (our review here), as well as four new compilations under the appropriately-named banner The Greatest (Country Classics, Gospel Songs, Duets, and The Number Ones) and an all-star DVD/BD tribute, I Walk the Line (our reviews here).

Johnny Cash’s The Complete Columbia Album Collection arrives from fine retailers everywhere on October 30. You can pre-order at the link below!

Johnny Cash, The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Columbia/Legacy 88697 91047 2, 2012)

Titles followed by original Columbia catalogue number and release date.

The Fabulous Johnny Cash (CL 1253, 1958)
Hymns By Johnny Cash (CL 1284, 1959)
Songs Of Our Soil (CL 1339, 1959)
Now There Was A Song! (CL 1463, 1960)
Ride This Train (CL 1464, 1960)
Hymns From The Heart (CL 1722, 1962)
The Sound Of Johnny Cash (CL 1802, 1962)
Blood, Sweat And Tears (CL 1930, 1962)
Ring Of Fire: The Best Of Johnny Cash (CL 2053, 1963)
The Christmas Spirit (CL 2117, 1963)
Keep On The Sunny Side – The Carter Family with special guest Johnny Cash (CL 2152, 1963)
I Walk The Line (CL 2190, 1964)
Bitter Tears: Johnny Cash Sings Ballads of the American Indian (CL 2248, 1964)
Orange Blossom Special (CL 2309, 1965)
Johnny Cash Sings Ballads of the True West (C2L38, 1965)
Everybody Loves a Nut (CL 2492, 1966)
Happiness Is You (CL 2537, 1966)
Carryin’ On With Johnny Cash & June Carter (CL 2728, 1967)
From Sea To Shining Sea (CL 2647, 1967)
Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (Live) (CS 9639, 1968)
The Holy Land (KCS 9726, 1968)
Johnny Cash At San Quentin (Live) (CS 9827, 1969)
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash (KCS 9943, 1970)
The Johnny Cash Show (Live) ( KC 30100, 1970)
I Walk The Line: Original Soundtrack (S 30397, 1970)
Little Fauss and Big Halsy: Original Soundtrack (S 30385, 1970)
Man In Black (C 30550, 1970)
A Thing Called Love (KC 31332, 1972)
America – A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song (KC 31645, 1972)
Christmas – The Johnny Cash Family (KC 31754, 1972)
Any Old Wind That Blows (KC 32091, 1973)
The Gospel Road (2 CDs) (KG 32253, 1973)
Johnny Cash And His Woman (C 32443, 1973)
Johnny Cash pa Osteraker (CBS 65308, 1973)
Ragged Old Flag (KC 32917, 1974)
The Junkie And The Juicehead Minus Me (KC 33086, 1974)
The Johnny Cash Children’s Album (C 32898, 1975)
Johnny Cash Sings Precious Memories (C 33087, 1975)
John R. Cash (KC 33370, 1975)
Look At Them Beans (KC 33814, 1975)
Strawberry Cake (Live at the Palladium, London, England) (KC 34088, 1976)
One Piece at a Time (KC 34193, 1976)
The Last Gunfighter Ballad (KC 34314, 1977)
The Rambler (KC 34833, 1977)
I Would Like To See You Again (KC 35313, 1978)
Gone Girl (PC 35646, 1978)
Silver (JC 36086, 1979)
Rockabilly Blues (JC 36779, 1980)
Classic Christmas (JC 36866, 1980)
The Baron (FC 37179, 1981)
The Survivors: Johnny Cash - Jerry Lee Lewis – Carl Perkins (FC 37961, 1982)
The Adventures Of Johnny Cash (FC 38094, 1982)
Johnny 99 (FC 38696, 1983)
Koncert V Praze (In Prague Live) (Supraphon 1113-3278, 1983)
Rainbow (FC 39951, 1985)
Highwayman (FC 40056, 1985)
Heroes (with Waylon Jennings) (FC 40347, 1986)
Highwayman 2 (CK 45240, 1990)
At Madison Square Garden (Live) (CK 86808, 200

Yes a very fine collection but when do you ever get time to listen to all those cds , thats what music is for listening to.
I was 63 on monday and i realise that there is only limited time left for everything including music, so if the Stones ever did release everything i doubt i would get to hear it all anyway, younger people might possibly be able to but youngsters today throw everything away, so somehow i think they missed out as most of their fans are too old to care anymore we waited to long.
We still have not had all the 6 archive releases so there is little hope of a project like this,nice though it would be.

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adotulipson
I was 63 on monday

HAPPY (belated) BIRTHDAY !!

JC would have been 80, hence this large collection. Sony know what they are doing on the reissue front.

Stones at 50, alas, don't.

I'll settle for a killer 50 Licks release at this point.

imagine a Grateful Dead release of all live shows including a fork-lifter...

Who the hell could listen to 63 Johnny Cash CDs? I wouldn't listen to 63 CDs by anyone. I bet at the end you could cull it down to about 10 CDs worth of decent material, maybe a lot less because I realize how much is missing because it doesn't include his Sun stuff, where the early hits were.

Why would anyone want a complete Rolling Stones collection? (Official Releases)There wouldn't be one cut, maybe a B side might sneak in, that we're not overly familiar with. It's not like they're hard to find!

I could listen to JC from 1955 - 1972. I think there's an awful lot of stuff that is disposable, but the same can be said of Presley, Sinatra, Holliday, Dylan, Young, Costello, Orbison, Reed, Miles Davis, et al.

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treaclefingers
I'll settle for a killer 50 Licks release at this point.

50 completely different licks then the 40 perpetrated 10 years ago...or its a no go...

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treaclefingers
I'll settle for a killer 50 Licks release at this point.

50 completely different licks then the 40 perpetrated 10 years ago...or its a no go...

that stands to reason. I think at the time I came up with another 40 licks they could have included, burned and titled it 'More 40 Licks; Big Hits & Fazed Cookies".

My lack of originality was inspiring.

I would gladly buy and listen to 63 CD's of stones recording sessions from 1966 - 1968.