Artist	Song
johnny cash	"i walk the line"
johnny cash	"i still miss someone"
johnny cash	"cry, cry, cry"
johnny cash	"guess things happen that way"
johnny cash	"the ways of a woman in love"
johnny cash	"hey porter"
johnny cash	"get rhythm"
johnny cash	"big river"
johnny cash	"ring of fire"
johnny cash	"daddy sang bass"
johnny cash	"i was there when it happened"
johnny cash	"give my love to rose"
johnny cash	"understand your man"
johnny cash	"flesh & blood"
johnny cash	"man in black"
johnny cash	"delia's gone"
johnny cash	"troublesome waters"
johnny cash	"folsom prison blues" [live at folsom]
johnny cash	"sunday mornin' comin' down"
johnny cash	"i tremble for you"
johnny cash	"my shoes keep walking back to you"
johnny cash with june carter	"jackson"
johnny cash	"i got stripes"
johnny cash	"cocaine blues" [live at folsom]
johnny cash	"the long black veil"
johnny cash	"'cause i love you"
johnny cash with june carter	"if i was a carpenter"
johnny cash	"the one rose (that's left in my heart)"
johnny cash	"down there by the train"

Comment:

for the first time in nearly a week, i wasn't attacked by a trojan as i ventured on the site, so i'm taking this opportunity to throw up a quickie (if you call four hours "quick," which i do).

as i've mentioned numerous times in the past, i'm not usually very into single artist mixes - unless i'm making an introduction to said artist for an aquaintance, i'm always going to prefer grabbing the original albums, as they're more pleasurable as cohesive artistic statements. although i do agree with the distinction rob & marc have made countless times, that a single artist mix for someone you're not crazy about but like quite a few of their tunes is boundlessly more useful, as it affords you the opportunity of a consistently pleasurable listen without the duds you're less bound to reach for when you wanna spin their records.

johnny cash is a totally different scenario in this case: he's one of my 20 or so all-time favorite artists, & one of the primary musicians responsible for forming my obsession with pop music during my formative years, so i'm far from ambivalent in my appreciation for his catalog. that being said, he was never much of an album-oriented artist, & the compilations on the market of his are inclined to omit quite a few of my favorite tunes of his. i've been on quite a cash kick lately, so i took it upon myself to cull together my favorite work of his to concoct what i feel is pretty close to my absolute favorite johnny cash songs.

this starts off following a rough chronological flow, with his big-hitters at sun kicking things off, yet as i went on i took the liberty of reworking a flow that was more akin to what i was in the mood for, & voila, here's my single disc interpretation of the man in black's best work. there were tons of cuts, the most painful being "there you go," "any old wind that blows," "don't take your guns to town," "a boy named sue," "luther played the boogie," "ballad of a teenage queen," "home of the blues," "keep on the sunny side" (with the carter family), "it takes one to know me" (with june carter), among a myriad of others.

that's pretty much it. i'm pretty sure mr. cash's catalog is by all means ubiquitous by now, however, if anyone is yearning for an upload, i'll get it up ASAP.

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