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Recorded between July 1958 & March 1959. Originally released on Columbia (8148). Includes liner notes by Bill Altman. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Though not quite an overt concept album in the vein of the following year's RIDE THIS TRAIN, Johnny Cash's 1959 recording SONGS OF OUR SOIL is tied together by the theme of American folk music. One of Cash's earliest Columbia releases after his departure from Sun Records, this set features the Man in Black's typical gusto and the celebrated boom-chicka-boom shuffle of the Tennessee Two. Time-honored tunes include tales of "Clementine" and "The Great Speckle Bird" (sic), along with "I Want to Go Home" (more famously covered by the Beach Boys as "Sloop John B."). Perhaps most notable, however, are the Cash originals "Five Feet High and Rising," a story of rural woe in the form of a flood, and "Old Apache Squaw," protesting the plight of Native Americans, a theme which Cash would later revisit. 

Artist: Johnny Cash
Format: CD
Release Year: 2010
Record Label: Not Now Music
Genre: Country, Outlaw Country
Number Of Discs: 2

CD1

1. Drink To Me
2. Five Feet High And Rising
3. The Man On The Hill
4. Hank And Joe And Me
5. Clementine
6. The Great Speckled Bird
7. I Want To Go Home
8. The Caretaker
9. Old Apache Squaw
10. Don't Step On Mother's Roses
11. My Grandfather's Clock
12. It Could Be You (Instead Of Him)
13. I Got Stripes
14. Frankie's Man, Johnny
15. You Dreamer You
16. I'll Remember You
17. Wabash Blues
18. Bandana

CD2

1. It Was Jesus
2. I Saw A Man
3. Are All The Children In
4. The Old Account
5. Lead Me Gently Home, Father
6. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
7. Snow In His Hair
8. Lead Me Father
9. I Call Him
10. These Things Shall Pass
11. He'll Be A Friend
12. God Will
13. That's Enough
14. The Little Drummer Boy
15. I Was There When It Happened