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September 7th, 1965: New album from Johnny Cash
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September, 1965 - Johnny Cash released his conceptual double album, Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West. The album was Cash's twenty-second studio album and was released only six months after his previous album, Orange Blossom Special.
Listen below to track eight from the album, "Streets of Laredo", a song he would later re-record for his 2002 album, American IV: The Man Comes Around.
The album was also Cash's first release since his May 1965 arrest for public drunkenness in Starkville, Mississippi.
Here is the track list for Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West:
01 Hiawatha's Vision
02 The Road to Kaintuck
03 The Shifting Whispering Sands, Part I
04 The Ballad of Boot Hill
05 I Ride an Old Paint
06 Hardin Wouldn't Run
07 Mr. Garfield
08 Streets of Laredo
09 Johnny Reb
10 A Letter from Home
11 Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
12 Mean as Hell
13 Sam Hall
14 25 Minutes to Go
15 The Blizzard
16 Sweet Betsy from Pike
17 Green Grow the Lilacs
18 Stampede
19 The Shifting Whispering Sands, Part II
20 Reflections
Listen below to a track from Cash's previous album, Orange Blossom Special, a cover of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe."
Read more about the early interactions between Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash here.
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