Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Folsom Prison Blues [Live]
2. I Walk the Line
3. Guess Things Happen That Way
4. Jackson - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
5. Ballad of a Teenage Queen
6. Flesh and Blood
7. Daddy Sang Bass
8. Boy Named Sue [Live]
9. Don't Take Your Guns to Town
10. Ring of Fire - Carter Family, Johnny Cash
11. There Ain't No Good Chain Gang - Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings
12. Big River
13. Rebel - Johnny Yuma
14. What Is Truth?
15. One Piece at a Time

Disc 2:

1. Man in Black
2. Understand Your Man
3. There You Go
4. Tennessee Flat Top Box
5. Girl from the North Country - Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan
6. Sunday Morning Coming Down
7. Five Feet High and Rising
8. Orange Blossom Special - Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Charlie McCoy, Charlie McCoy, Boots Randolph
9. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky
10. Highwayman - Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson
11. If I Were a Carpenter - Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
12. Thing Called Love
13. Ballad of Ira Hayes
14. I Still Miss Someone
15. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? - Carter Family, Johnny Cash

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153828 in Music
• Released on: 1999-03-02
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered

Amazon.com
A more affordable alternative to the three-CD Essential package, The Man in Black is a well-chosen, double-disc collection that includes a good number of Cash's highlights, but leaves behind the accoutrements of the box set (no liner notes, discographical info, and so on). On the other hand, it includes various cuts--duets with Dylan, Kristofferson, and the Highwaymen for example--that Essential leaves off, although Essential does a more-thorough job of sampling the Sun years and the prison records. As a summary of Cash's many frames of mind, this compilation is not a bad place to start at all. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

an americn original!!
This magnificent 2 CD set would almost be worth the price just for the immortal words at the beginning of the first track, Hello, I'm Johnny Cash, which of course is how he began his famous concert at Folsom Prison, with an extraordinary version of Folsom Prison Blues that is even better than the original. The great songs are here: I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire, Big River, Sunday Morning Coming Down, Jackson, and there is so much more, including a remarkable duet with none other than Bob Dylan, and a couple of tracks with Waylon Jennings. The distinctive, macho, voice of Johnny Cash and his guitar strumming are American institutions, and I maintain that noone in country music has ever topped him.

Johnny Cash at his best
This CD has eveything you are looking for. All the songs I used to hear on 8 track at my grandma's house as a kid. The sound quality was great and I highly reccommend this addition to anyone's collection.

the man in black is great
i've always dug johnny cash's style and his music.he is a true superstar no matter what genre.his songs deal with real life themes and are heart felt and timeless.