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Johnny Cash's classic recordings for Sun have been reissued many times, and they have been issued in complete form before, most notably in Bear Family's exhaustive five-disc 1990 box set, The Man in Black: 1954-1958. Because of this glut of product, it's easy to look at Time-Life's 2005 three-disc set, The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-1958, and wonder if it's necessary, or just a quick cash-in tied into the release of the Joaquin Phoenix-starring 2005 biopic Walk the Line. After all, if you're nitpicking, this doesn't even contain the complete Sun recordings -- meaning that this doesn't contain all the alternate takes and false starts that are on the Bear Family box. But if you're looking for alternate takes -- or for that matter, the fly-on-the-wall fifth disc documenting a full recording session from The Man in Black -- you already have the Bear Family set in your library anyway and you wouldn't be interested in another complete Sun set unless it unearths forgotten recordings, which this does not. Instead, Time-Life's box does something useful: it presents one version of each of song Cash recorded at Sun in one convenient package. There are a handful of tracks that include false starts and, at times, undubbed masters are used, but if the hit version is better-known with overdubs -- as on "Guess Things Happen That Way" -- they wisely choose to use that instead. Consequently, this winds up as a useful, succinct summary of Cash's Sun recordings -- a package for the dedicated listener who doesn't need the alternate takes or the actual albums, but wants it all anyway. For that audience, this is an excellent choice.

Artist: Johnny Cash
Title: The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-1958
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Time Life Music [20803-P]
Genre: Country, Rockabilly
Quality: 320 kbps
Total Time: 2:19:20
Total Size: 398 mb

TRACKLIST:

01 - Cry, Cry, Cry
02 - Hey Porter
03 - Folsom Prison Blues
04 - So Doggone Lonesome
05 - I Walk The Line
06 - Get Rhythm
07 - There You Go
08 - Train Of Love
09 - Don't Make Me Go
10 - Next In Line
11 - Home Of The Blues
12 - Give My Love To Rose
13 - Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
14 - Big River
15 - Guess Things Happen That Way
16 - Come In, Stranger
17 - The Ways Of A Woman In Love
18 - You're The Nearest Thing To Heaven
19 - It's Just About Time
20 - I Just Thought You'd Like To Know
21 - Thanks A Lot
22 - Luther Played The Boogie
23 - Katy Too
24 - I Forgot To Remember To Forget
25 - Goodbye Little Darlin'
26 - You Tell Me
27 - Straight A's In Love
28 - I Love You Because
29 - Down The Street To 301
30 - Story Of A Broken Heart
31 - Mean Eyed Cat

01 - Port Of Lonely Hearts
02 - Oh Lonesome Me
03 - Life Goes On
04 - Sugartime
05 - My Treasure
06 - Blue Train
07 - Born To Lose
08 - Wide Open Road
09 - Belshazzar
10 - Rock Island Line
11 - (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
12 - If The Good Lord's Willing
13 - Country Boy
14 - Remember Me (I'm The One Who Loves You)
15 - I Was There When It Happened
16 - Wreck Of The Old 97
17 - Doin' My Time
18 - Hey Good Lookin'
19 - I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
20 - You Win Again
21 - Always Alone
22 - I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You
23 - Goodnight Irene
24 - New Mexico
25 - Two Timin' Woman
26 - You're My Baby
27 - I Couldn't Keep From Crying
28 - Cold Cold Heart
29 - Fools Hall Of Fame
30 - Leave That Junk Alone
31 - Rock 'n' Roll Ruby

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