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JOHNNY CASH From Memphis to Hollywood: Bootleg Vol. 2
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Johnny Cash's first 15 Years at Sun and Columbia Records are explored on this dual-CD and 57-song box-set From Memphis to Hollywood: Bootleg Vol. 2. This album focuses on the dawning of Johnny Cash's recording career at Sun Records in Memphis from late 1954 to late '57 (on CD One), into his first decade at Columbia Records in Nashville, from 1958 to 1969 (on CD Two).
Full of rarities, outtakes, and previously unreleased demos From Memphis to Hollywood: Bootleg Vol. 2 will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting February 22, 2011.
CD ONE: 1955 Memphis radio broadcast on KWEM - 11 ultra-rare, previously unreleased demos recorded prior to his signing with Sun Records - seven Sun outtakes produced by Sam Phillips and Jack Clement from 1954 to '57 - and more!
CD TWO: From the Columbia vaults, 25 non-album singles, B-sides, and outtakes, 11 of them previously unreleased in the U.S.
Follow-up to Personal File aka Bootleg Vol. 1 of 2006
Available at both physical and digital retail outlets starting February 22, 2011, through Columbia/Legacy
"He laced a rootsy, less-is-more esthetic and a stark, shadow-over-light signature into his music, whatever style he chose or role he played. Bootleg II tags them all: the Bible-quoting evangelist and the rockabilly renegade. The Wild West balladeer, and the connoisseur of the death row lament. The reviver of 19th century parlor music, and the booster of a new breed of songwriters that arrived in the 1960s."
- from the liner notes written by Ashley Kahn
The musical treasures left behind by Johnny Cash at the House Of Cash estate in Hendersonville, Tennessee, continue to provide insight into his character as an American music icon - perhaps the American music icon. The rich backwoods archive first bore fruit on Columbia/Legacy nearly five years ago, with the release of Personal File aka Bootleg Vol. 1, a fascinating double-CD collection of 49 privately recorded, intimate solo performances dating from 1973 to 1982
FROM MEMPHIS TO HOLLYWOOD: BOOTLEG VOL. 2 continues the series, as compilation producer Gregg Geller focuses on the dawning of Johnny Cash's recording career at Sun Records in Memphis from late 1954 to late '57 (on CD One), into his first decade at Columbia Records in Nashville, from 1958 to 1969 (on CD Two). BOOTLEG VOL. 2 will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting February 22, 2011, through Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
Putting the BOOTLEG VOL. 2 collection in historical perspective is a carefully detailed essay written by Ashley Kahn, author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece (DaCapo Press, 2000), and other titles. Kahn also contributes to National Public Radio.
The trove of archival material on BOOTLEG VOL. 2 begins with a 15-minute live radio broadcast from KWEM in Memphis, hosted by Johnny Cash, who worked for Home Equipment Company, the show's sponsor right across the street from the radio station. The date was Saturday, May 21, 1955, in the same month that Cash recorded his first Sun single, "Cry! Cry! Cry!" b/w "Hey Porter." In addition to his lively palaver, Cash and the Tennessee Two - guitarist Luther Perkins and bassist Marshall Grant - performed a handful of tunes, including the honky tonk "Wide Open Road," a cover of "One More Ride" (from the Sons Of the Pioneers), the gospel "Belshazzar," and the guitar showpiece, "Luther's Boogie." The broadcast is followed by a one minute spot advertising an upcoming show at the Overton Park Shell, starring Webb Pierce, Red Sovine, Elvis Presley, Cash, and other country acts.
CD One continues with a dozen historically-significant, pre-Sun demos by Cash, 11 of them previously unreleased. These rare home-recorded demos served as blueprints to such enduring Cash originals as "I Walk The Line," "Get Rhythm" and "Country Boy," and provide new insight into Cash's songwriting. Two of these demos would soon turn into rockabilly hits for Roy Orbison ("You're My Baby") and Warren Smith ("Rock And Roll Ruby").
Under the heading Sun Rarities are seven outtakes produced between late 1954 and late 1957 by Sam Phillips and Jack Clement. In addition to familiar Cash titles ("Big River," "Wide Open Road"), there are covers of tunes by Jimmy Rodgers ("Brakeman's Blues"), Marty Robbins ("I Couldn't Keep From Crying"), and Lead Belly ("Goodnight Irene"), an indication of Cash's abiding interest and love for the burgeoning folk music movement, whose embrace of him was a hallmark of his career. CD One concludes with two final demos, "Restless Kid" (later recorded by Ricky Nelson), and "It's All Over."
The 25 tracks on CD Two span Cash's first 11 years at Columbia Records; he was ultimately with the label for 28 years, through 1986. This disc presents a fresh gathering of Columbia non-album singles, outtakes, and B-sides being released digitally for the first time in the U.S. (11 of them previously unreleased in the U.S.).
The move to Columbia also meant a move to Los Angeles for Cash and his family as he developed a taste for film and television work, both as a songwriter and as an actor. In the Golden Age of TV westerns and movies, Cash was a natural. His larger-than-life presence boosted the popularity of the gunfighter ballads and Americana tales that became a pop music genre at the end of the 1950s and into the '60s, exemplified by such titles as "Restless Kid," "Johnny Yuma Theme," and "Hardin Wouldn't Run." Another example is "Shifting, Whispering Sands," a spoken-sung collaboration with Lorne Greene, better known as Bonanza TV patriarch Ben Cartwright.
The musical passions of Johnny Cash - from traditional gospel and folk, to Tin Pan Alley and Music Row, among many other sources - were given full rein in 1969, when The Johnny Cash Show became a weekly event on ABC-TV. It is at that point, with the evocative theme of the show's central feature, "Come Along And Ride This Train," that BOOTLEG VOL. 2 concludes.
"To know the tree," Kahn sums up, "one should begin at the root - so goes an old saying. Yet one is well advised to take in all the branches as well. FROM MEMPHIS TO HOLLYWOOD: BOOTLEG VOL. 2 offers the opportunity to hear Johnny Cash's earliest performances plus a wealth of unreleased and unfairly forgotten recordings, to grasp his commanding, old-growth legend in full."
FROM MEMPHIS TO HOLLYWOOD: BOOTLEG VOL. 2 by JOHNNY CASH (Columbia/Legacy 88697 60051 2)
CD ONE: THE 1950s
A. On The Air
1. KWEM Announcements and Advertisements o 2. Johnny Cash Show Intro and Theme o 3. Wide Open Road o 4. Home Equipment Company Advertisement o 5. One More Ride o 6. Home Equipment Company Advertisement/Luther Perkins Intro o 7. Luther's Boogie o 8. Belshazzar Intro o 9. Belshazzar o 10. Closing Comments and Theme o 11. Overton Park Shell "Country Music Jamboree" Advertisement by "Texas" Bill Strength, broadcast August 4, 1955. (Tracks 1-10 recorded May 21, 1955 in West Memphis, Arkansas. Tracks 1-11 previously released as bonus CD in limited edition of The Legend boxed set, 2005.)
B. Early Demos
12. I Walk The Line (demo) o 13. Get Rhythm (demo) o 14. Train Of Love (demo) o 15. Country Boy (demo) o 16. My Treasure (demo) o 17. Belshazzar (demo) o 18. He'll Be A Friend (demo) o 19. When I Think Of You (demo) o 20. I Just Don't Care Enough (To Carry On) (demo) o 21. I'll Cry For You (demo) o 22. You're My Baby (demo) o 23. Rock And Roll Ruby (demo, recorded probably late 1955; West Memphis, Arkansas, courtesy of Sun Entertainment Corporation.)
(Tracks 12-22 previously unreleased, recording dates and locations unknown.)
C. Sun Rarities
24. Wide Open Road (recorded late 1954; produced by Sam Phillips)
25. Leave That Junk Alone (recorded August 4, 1957; produced by Jack Clement)
26. Brakeman's Blues (incomplete) (recorded April 2, 1956; produced by Sam Phillips)
27. Big River (recorded November 12, 1957; produced by Jack Clement)
28. I Couldn't Keep From Crying (recorded probably 1955; produced by Sam Phillips)
29. New Mexico (recorded probably 1955; produced by Sam Phillips)
30. Goodnight Irene (recorded November 12, 1957; produced by Jack Clement)
(Tracks 24-30 recorded in Memphis, courtesy of Sun Entertainment Corporation.)
D. More Demos
31. Restless Kid (demo) o 32 It's All Over (demo). (Tracks 31-32 previously unreleased, recording dates and locations unknown.)
CD TWO: THE 1960s
1. All Over Again
2. You Dreamer You
3. I'll Remember You
4. Johnny Yuma Theme (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
5. Five Minutes To Live (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
6. The Losing Kind (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
7. Locomotive Man
8. Girl In Saskatoon
9. There's A Mother Always Waiting (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
10. Johnny Reb (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
11. Shifting, Whispering Sands-with Lorne Greene (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
12. Send A Picture Of Mother
13. Hardin Wouldn't Run (demo)
14. Thunderball (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
15. One Too Many Mornings (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
16. The Frozen Logger (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
17. Foolish Questions (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
18. Bottom Of The Mountain
19. Put The Sugar To Bed
20. You Beat All I Ever Saw
21. On The Line (previously unreleased in the U.S.)
22. Roll Call
23. The Folk Singer
24. Six White Horses (demo) (previously unreleased)
25. Come Along And Ride This Train (demo) (previously unreleased).
(Tracks 1-6 recorded in Nashville, produced by Don Law.)
(Tracks 7-12, 14-21 recorded in Nashville, produced by Don Law and Frank Jones.)
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