Rockabilly Blues

Infobox Album
Name = Rockabilly Blues
Type = Album
Artist = Johnny Cash


Released = October 1980
Recorded = December 1979 -
July 1980
Genre = Country
Length = 32:48
Label = Columbia
Producer = Earl "Pool" Ball, Jack Clement and Nick Lowe
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:leaxqj3lojaa link]
*Robert Christgau (B-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=johnny+cash link]
Chronology = Johnny Cash
Last album = "A Believer Sings the Truth"
(1979)
This album = "Rockabilly Blues"
(1980)
Next album = "Classic Christmas"
(1980)

"Rockabilly Blues" is an album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1980 (see 1980 in music). It is a collection of songs in the rockabilly style. Highlights include "Cold Lonesome Morning," which had some minor chart success (No. 53 in the country charts), "Without Love," by his son-in-law, Nick Lowe, and a cover of the witty "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over." The first two of the aforementioned songs were the only singles from the album, though "Without Love" hardly enjoyed any chart success, peaking at No. 78. "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over" was re-recorded five years later by Cash and Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, collectively known as The Highwaymen, on their first album entitled "Highwayman", though it was, in essence, a duet with Nelson.

Track listing

#"Cold Lonesome Morning" (Cash) – 3:21
#"Without Love" (Nick Lowe) – 2:26
#*With Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds
#"W-O-M-A-N" (Cash) – 3:21
#"The Cowboy Who Started the Fight" (Billy Joe Shaver) – 3:46
#"The Twentieth Century is Almost Over" (Steve Goodman/John Prine) – 3:38
#"Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)" (Cash) – 3:18
#"The Last Time" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:12
#"She's a Go-er" (Cash) – 2:28
#"It Ain't Nothing New Babe" (Shaver) – 4:02
#"One Way Rider" (Rodney Crowell) – 3:16
#*With June Carter Cash

Personnel

* Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar
* Bob Wootton, Peter Wade, Clifford Parker - Electric Guitar
* Martin Belmont, Jerry Hensley, Jack Routh, Marty Stuart - Guitar
* Jack Clement - Dobro, Guitar, Producer
* Dave Kirby - Acoustic Guitar, Guitar
* Billy Joe Shaver - Guitar, Gut String Guitar
* Bobby Thompson - Acoustic Guitar, Banjo
* Dave Edmunds - Guitar, Engineer
* W.S. Holland, Jerry Carrigan, Larrie Londin, Kenny Malone, Pete Thomas - Drums
* Floyd Chance - Upright Bass
* Earl Ball - Piano, Producer
* Philip Donnelly, Daniel Sarenana, John Willis - Brass
* Joseph Allen, Joe Osborn - Electric Bass
* Nick Lowe - Electric Bass, Producer
* Irving Kane - Trombone, Leader
* June Carter Cash - Vocals

Additional personnel

* Curt Allen, Willie Pevear, Gene Eichelberger - Engineers
* Leonard Kamsler - Photography
* Dave Nives - Reissue Producer
* Suzanne Amon - Reissue Design
* Grant Alden - Liner Notes

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

External links

* [http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/c/Cash/cash_rockabillyblues.htm Luma Electronic entry on "Rockabilly Blues"]