Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash

by Johnny Cash

Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: August 1963
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 33:36
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Despite its title, this album functioned essentially as a new release, building a compilation around the massive, career-revitalizing success of the titular mariachi-infused single. It gathers recent EP tracks and singles that highlight his deepening, highly distinctive baritone and his willingness to experiment with expanded, horn-driven arrangements. The collection effectively repositioned him as a dominant, increasingly ambitious force within the 1960s country music establishment.

Genres

Tracklist

  1. Ring of Fire (2:38)
  2. I'd Still Be There (2:34)
  3. What Do I Care (2:07)
  4. I Still Miss Someone (2:35)
  5. Forty Shades of Green (2:53)
  6. Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) (3:54)
  7. The Rebel - Johnny Yuma (1:53)
  8. Bonanza! (2:20)
  9. The Big Battle (4:03)
  10. Remember the Alamo (2:48)
  11. Tennessee Flat-Top Box (2:59)
  12. (There'll Be) Peace In the Valley (For Me) (with The Carter Family) (2:47)

Credits

  • Johnny Cash - primary artist, written-by, arranged by, adapted by
  • June Carter - written-by
  • Merle Kilgore - written-by
  • Johnny Horton - written-by
  • Roy Cash Jr. - written-by
  • Traditional - written-by
  • Andrew Fenady - written-by
  • Richard Markowitz - written-by

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