Ride This Train
Ride This Train
Columbia CS-8255
Released Original: September, 1960
Re-issued: March 19, 2002
Recorded In Bradley Film & Recording Studio Nashville in February 1960
Genre Country
Length Original: 32:20
Re-issue: 42:10
Label Columbia Records
Producer Don Law, Al Quaglieri
Track listing:
1.Loading Coal (Merle Travis) - 4:58
2.Slow Rider (Johnny Cash) - 4:12
3.Lumberjack (Leon Payne) - 3:02
4.Dorraine of Ponchartrain (Johnny Cash) - 4:47
5.Going To Memphis (Johnny Cash, Hollie Dew, Alan Lomax) - 4:26
6.When Papa Played The Dobro (Johnny Cash) - 2:55
7.Boss Jack (Tex Ritter) - 3:50
8.Old Doc Brown (Red Foley) - 4:10
The LP was re-issued in 2002 with four bonus tracks:
1.The Fable of Willie Brown (Johnny Cash) - 1:57
2.Second Honeymoon (Autry Inman) - 1:57
3.Ballad Of The Harp Weaver (Thelma Moore, Edna Millay) - 3:50
4.Smiling Bill McCall (Johnny Cash) - 2:06
All bonus tracks are new to the album.
Johnny Cash was ever since childhood very interested in trains. He has made many songs with a train theme, and alson made movies like Ridin' These Rails.
Ride This Train is considered as one of the first concept albums (unified by a theme) in the history of popular music.
Personell:
•Johnny Cash - Guitar, Vocals
•Luther Perkins - Electric Guitar
•Marshall Grant - Bass
•Shot Jackson - Dobro, Steel Guitar
•Al Casey - Guitar
•Marvin Hughes - Piano
•Buddy Harman - Drums
•Floyd Cramer - Piano
•Gordon Terry - Fiddle
•Al Quagliari - Producer
•Don Law - Producer
•Seth Foster - Mastering
•Mark Wilder - Mastering, Mixing
•Hal Adams - Photography
•Don Hunstein - Photography
•Stacey Boyle - Tape Research
•Matt Kelly - Tape Research
•Kay Smith - Tape Research
•Steven Berkowitz - A & R
•Darren Salmieri - A & R
•Howard Fritzson - Art Direction
•Randall Martin - Design
•Nick Shaffran - Consultant
•Arthur Levy - Liner Notes