My Mother's Hymn Book

by Johnny Cash

My Mother's Hymn Book cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 April 2004
  • Label: American
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:19
  • Community rating: 3.62/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released posthumously as part of the 'Unearthed' box set, this intimately stark record features only Cash's weathered voice and acoustic guitar. 'My Mother's Hymn Book' collects traditional spirituals and Christian hymns he learned in childhood, standing as a profoundly peaceful, moving testament to his enduring faith.

Genres

Descriptors: christian, choral, traditional, vocal, harmonies, ballad

Tracklist

  1. Where We'll Never Grow Old
  2. I Shall Not Be Moved
  3. I Am A Pilgrim
  4. Do Lord
  5. When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
  6. If We Never Meet Again This Side Of Heaven
  7. I'll Fly Away
  8. Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies
  9. Let The Lower Lights Be Burning
  10. When He Reached Down
  11. In The Sweet By And By
  12. I'm Bound For The Promised Land
  13. In The Garden
  14. Softly And Tenderly
  15. Just As I Am

Credits

  • James C. Moore - written-by
  • V.O. Fossett - written-by
  • Merle Travis - written-by
  • Traditional - written-by
  • Albert E. Brumley - written-by
  • Wayne Raney - written-by
  • Philip P. Bliss - written-by
  • J. B. F. Wright - written-by

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