16 Biggest Hits

by Johnny Cash

Overview

A Johnny Cash song has two components: Cash's deep, gravelly baritone, and that distinctive "chicken pickin'" guitar and bassline. But as 16 Biggest Hits demonstrates, it's what Cash managed to do with those two simple ingredients that makes him a legend. A country singer with a rock & roll heart, Cash created songs that were at once of the moment ("The Ballad of Ira Hayes") and timeless ("Ring of Fire"). 16 Biggest Hits includes a fine sampling of Cash's favorite themes: the socially conscious protest song ("The Man in Black"), the humorous story song ("One Piece at a Time"), and the song of longing and desire ("Flesh and Blood," "I Still Miss Someone"). Also included are the classic "Folsom Prison Blues" (the superior 1968 live version), the snarling put-down "Understand Your Man," and Cash's definitive version of Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down." ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	01/18/2011
Label:	Columbia / Legacy / Sony Legacy
UPC:	0886978311122
Rank:	29730

Tracks

1. I Walk the Line
2. I Still Miss Someone
3. The Legend of John Henry's Hammer
4. Don't Take Your Guns To Town
5. In the Jailhouse Now
6. Ring of Fire
7. Understand Your Man
8. The Ballad of Ira Hayes
9. Folson Prison Blues
10. Daddy Sang Bass
11. A Boy Named Sue
12. Sunday Morngin Coming Down
13. Flesh and Blood
14. Man In Black
15. One Piece At a Time
16. (Ghost) Riders In the Sky

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Johnny Cash   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Don Hunstein   Photography
Bob Johnston   Producer
Don Davis   Producer
Charlie Bragg   Producer
Frank Jones   Producer
Don Law   Producer
Eric Conn   Digital Editing
Wayne Kemp   Composer
Peter La Farge   Composer
Jimmie Rodgers   Composer
Roy Cash   Composer
Merle Kilgore   Composer
Brian Ahern   Producer
Denny Purcell   Mastering
Margie Hunt   Executive Producer
Jonathan Russell   Assistant
Kris Kristofferson   Composer
Carl Perkins   Composer
Johnny Cash   Composer,Producer
June Carter Cash   Composer
Carlos Grier   Digital Editing
Robert Goodman   Design,Art Direction
Norman Seeff   Photography
Don Davis & the Nite Owls   Producer
Stan Jones   Composer
Shel Silverstein   Composer