The Holy Land

by Johnny Cash

The Holy Land cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 January 1969
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:56
  • Community rating: 2.29/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Conceived as a highly personal devotional project, this concept album weaves together traditional religious songwriting with field recordings captured during a trip to Israel. The mixture of austere acoustic performances and conversational narration provides an intimate glimpse into the country icon's profound spiritual convictions.

Genres

Descriptors: christian, conceptual, history

Tracklist

  1. Prologue (0:55)
  2. Land of Israel (2:50)
  3. A Mother's Love (Narrative) (1:31)
  4. This Is Nazareth (0:44)
  5. Nazarene (2:04)
  6. Town of Cana (Narrative) (1:35)
  7. He Turned the Water Into Wine (with The Carter Family & The Statler Brothers) (2:47)
  8. My Wife June at Sea of Galilee (Narrative) (1:32)
  9. Beautiful Words (Narrative) (1:53)
  10. Our Guide Jacob at Mount Tabor (1:54)
  11. The Ten Commandments (4:01)
  12. Daddy Sang Bass (2:20)
  13. At The Wailing Wall (Narrative) (0:46)
  14. Come to the Wailing Wall (Narrative) (2:47)
  15. In Bethlehem (Narrative) (1:48)
  16. In Garden of Gethsemane (Narrative) (1:57)
  17. The Fourth Man (2:08)
  18. On the Via Dolorosa (Narrative) (3:54)
  19. Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Narrative) (1:06)
  20. At Calvary (Narrative) (2:33)
  21. God Is Not Dead (2:45)

Credits

  • Johnny Cash - primary artist, written-by
  • Lewis De Witt - written-by
  • Carl Perkins - written-by
  • Arthur Smith - written-by

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