Cash is a genuine titan of popular music, whose finest work should be as venerated as anything by Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, David Bowie or Brian Wilson, and this collection does as good a job of beginning to explain why as any. The virtue of Cash's music is its simplicity. His brutally reductive take on country, set to his distinctive boom-chicka-boom backbeat, directs all of the listener's attention to his supernaturally world-weary voice (even as a teenager, Cash sounded about a thousand years old). This collection is a judicious mix of covers (Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" among them) and original Cash standards.

TRACKLIST

1. Ring Of Fire (02:45)
2. I Walk The Line (02:34)
3. A Thing Called Love (02:32)
4. Sunday Morning Coming Down (03:54)
5. Folsom Prison Blues (02:46)
6. Home Of The Blues (03:15)
7. Guess Things Happen That Way (01:45)
8. The Way Of A Woman In Love (02:39)
9. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes (02:52)
10. Tennessee Flat Top Box (03:07)
11. I Got Stripes (02:01)
12. Get Rhythm (02:31)
13. Cry! Cry! Cry! (02:25)
14. Hey Porter (02:20)
15. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (with Roseanne Cash and The Everly Brothers) (02:47)
16. Five Feet High And Rising (01:45)
17. Long Black Veil (03:15)
18. I Still Miss Someone (02:59)
19. Blue Train (02:04)
20. (There'll be) Peace In The Valley (For Me) (02:55)
21. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (03:22)
22. Family Bible (02:49)

Total time 00:59:22

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