180g High Quality Vinyl!
Just like the often sung-about fellow locomotives Midnight Special and the Chattanooga Choo Choo, the Orange Blossom Special finds itself bathed in the very best tradition of American long-distance trains and memorable journeys. Puffing steam trains symbolize an atmosphere of departure, endurance and the mechanical pulse beat of profit-oriented industrialization, while also conjuring up the spirit of down-and-outs who tramp from one end of the country to the other along the rail tracks, dodging train fares.
Almost guilelessly at first, the album forged ahead into the hearts and hips of Cash fans with old favorites and climbed to number three in the Country charts. If you listen carefully, you will notice that three top Bob Dylan songs have crept in "It Aint Me Babe", "Mama, Youve Been On My Mind" and "Dont Think Twice, Its All Right". Dylan, who in his early years was far from enjoying cult status and was condemned a godless troublemaker, communist and traitor to folk music, found a perspicacious patron in Cash. In no uncertain terms, Cash demanded that Dylans critics should "Shut up! ... and let him sing!" and even sang Dylan himself. This present LP is not merely a perfectly produced Country album by the Man In Black, but a traction engine for the work of his spiritual brother.
"... one of Cash's finer non-greatest-hits releases." -Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com
Features:
180g Virgin Vinyl
High Quality Pressing
Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering
Musicians:
Johnny Cash. vocals, guitar
Charles R. "Charlie" McCoy, harmonica
Homer L. "Boots" Randolph, saxophone
William K. "Bill" McElhiney, trumpet
Luther Perkins, guitar
Floyd Cramer, piano
Marshall Grant, bass
W.S. Holland, drums
Selections:
1. Orange Blossom Special
2. The Long Black Veil
3. It Ain't Me Babe
4. The Wall
5. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
6. You Wild Colorado
7. Mama, You've Been On My Mind
8. When It's Springtime In Alaska
9. All of God's Children Ain't Free
10. Danny Boy
11. Wildwood Flower
12. Amen
Recorded in 1964.
Just like the often sung-about fellow locomotives Midnight Special and the Chattanooga Choo Choo, the Orange Blossom Special finds itself bathed in the very best tradition of American long-distance trains and memorable journeys. Puffing steam trains symbolize an atmosphere of departure, endurance and the mechanical pulse beat of profit-oriented industrialization, while also conjuring up the spirit of down-and-outs who tramp from one end of the country to the other along the rail tracks, dodging train fares.
Almost guilelessly at first, the album forged ahead into the hearts and hips of Cash fans with old favorites and climbed to number three in the Country charts. If you listen carefully, you will notice that three top Bob Dylan songs have crept in "It Aint Me Babe", "Mama, Youve Been On My Mind" and "Dont Think Twice, Its All Right". Dylan, who in his early years was far from enjoying cult status and was condemned a godless troublemaker, communist and traitor to folk music, found a perspicacious patron in Cash. In no uncertain terms, Cash demanded that Dylans critics should "Shut up! ... and let him sing!" and even sang Dylan himself. This present LP is not merely a perfectly produced Country album by the Man In Black, but a traction engine for the work of his spiritual brother.
"... one of Cash's finer non-greatest-hits releases." -Richie Unterberger, allmusic.com
Features:
180g Virgin Vinyl
High Quality Pressing
Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering
Musicians:
Johnny Cash. vocals, guitar
Charles R. "Charlie" McCoy, harmonica
Homer L. "Boots" Randolph, saxophone
William K. "Bill" McElhiney, trumpet
Luther Perkins, guitar
Floyd Cramer, piano
Marshall Grant, bass
W.S. Holland, drums
Selections:
1. Orange Blossom Special
2. The Long Black Veil
3. It Ain't Me Babe
4. The Wall
5. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
6. You Wild Colorado
7. Mama, You've Been On My Mind
8. When It's Springtime In Alaska
9. All of God's Children Ain't Free
10. Danny Boy
11. Wildwood Flower
12. Amen
Recorded in 1964.
