Track Listing

1. Opening Dialogue
2. Paul Revere
3. Begin West Movement
4. Road to Kaintuck
5. To the Shining Mountains
6. The Battle Of New Orleans
7. Southwestward
8. Remember The Alamo
9. Opening The West
10. Lorena
11. The Gettysburg Address
12. The West
13. Big Foot
14. Like A Young Colt
15. Mister Garfield
16. A Proud Land
17. The Big Battle
18. On Wheels And Wings
19. Come Take A Trip In My Airship
20. Reaching For The Stars
21. These Are My People

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213553 in Music
• Released on: 2001-12-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

Customer Reviews

I'd recommend 'Ride This Train' instead.
If you're thinking of investing in your first Cash concept album, i'd recommend Ride This Train (1960). Try that, see if you like it. I loved Ride This Train, but wasn't as impressed by America, and sort of regretted paying retail for it. Like most of the Cash concept albums, its well under thirty minutes total, and each of the songs are slight two-minute affairs, the rest being made up by the between-song narration. In Ride This Train, the narration is backed by the sound of a train, which works quite well. On America, Cash just narrates in silence, and it doesn't work as well. I think Ride This Train has better songs, too. Preview 'Loading Coal,' opening track of Ride This Train, with its crisp production and assured vocal, and see for yourself.

Cash is America!!
I can't say enough about this CD. Like previous viewers, I too wore out this cassette as a child listening to it on family vacations. I know every word and song and basically this is how I began to learn American History. I was thrilled to see it available on CD a few years ago. Combination song and "spoken word," Johnny is in top form. Well, better go because "I'm goin' west to Kentuck, down the road to moccasin gap!"

"Man in Black"
Johnny Cash is cleary an icon in country music, but he is often neglected when the great folk singers come to mind. This album is clearly a testament to his versatility. I have been blown away by his recent releases from American Recordings. Rick Rubin seemed to call back to a period when Johnny was doing great folk cuts with a hillbilly twist (Unchained); and in this collection I see where it may have started. Big Foot, The West, and Paul Revere have an honesty that only one can display when they really care about the subject at hand. Guthrie, Elliot, and Dylan all have and had it; and Johnny Cash belongs in their category! During these patriotic times people often look to art as a window of escape. Johnny Cash does that with these songs; and I don't believe anybody loves America more than he does! Buy this with confidence. Enjoy!