From Sea to Shining Sea

by Johnny Cash

From Sea to Shining Sea cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 January 1968
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 31:40
  • Community rating: 2.59/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An ambitious conceptual project, this album finds the Man in Black exploring themes of American history, geography, and the working class[cite: 1]. 'From Sea to Shining Sea' integrates traditional country instrumentation with heavy amounts of theatrical spoken-word narration[cite: 1]. Though less commercially successful than his legendary prison albums of the same era, it underscores Cash's deep reverence for American folklore[cite: 1].

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual

Tracklist

  1. From Sea to Shining Sea (1:36)
  2. The Whirl and the Suck (3:05)
  3. Call Daddy from the Mine (3:02)
  4. The Frozen Four-Hundred-Pound Fair-to-Middlin' Cotton Picker (2:31)
  5. The Walls of a Prison (3:58)
  6. The Masterpiece (2:44)
  7. You and Tennessee (3:06)
  8. Another Song to Sing (1:58)
  9. The Flint Arrowhead (2:53)
  10. Cisco Clifton's Fillin' Station (2:41)
  11. Shrimpin' Sailin' (3:05)
  12. From Sea to Shining Sea (Finale) (0:54)

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