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Sings the Ballads of the True West

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Track listing
Personnel
Charts
Modern Interpretations & Associations
Mean as Hell!
Track listing
Charts
External links

{{Infobox album
| name = Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West
| type = Studio album
| artist = Johnny Cash
| cover = JohnnyCashTrueWest.jpg
| alt =
| released = Original: September 1965
Re-issued: August 27, 2002
| recorded = August 14, 1959 - April 26, 1965
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{flat list|

Country folk
Western

}}
| length = Original: 64:52
Re-issue: 68:26
| label = Columbia
| producer = {{flat list|

Don Law
Frank Jones

}}
| prev_title = Orange Blossom Special
| prev_year = 1965
| next_title = Everybody Loves a Nut
| next_year = 1966
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Johnny Cash Songs the Ballads of the True West
| type = studio
| single1 = Mister Garfield
| single1date = June 1, 1965
| single2 = The Streets of Laredo
| single2date = June 1, 1965
}}
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}} [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r466013|pure_url=yes}} link]
| rev2 = PopMatters
| rev2Score = favorable
}}

Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West is a conceptual double album and the 22nd overall album released by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1965 (see 1965 in music). Covering twenty individual songs, the album, as its title suggests, contains various ballads and other songs on topics related to the history of the American Old West. This includes Carl Perkins' "The Ballad of Boot Hill", "Streets of Laredo", and the sole single from the album, "Mr. Garfield", describing the shock of the population after the assassination of President James Garfield. One of the songs, "25 Minutes to Go", would later be performed at Folsom Prison and appear on Cash's famous At Folsom Prison recording in 1968, while the melody of "Streets of Laredo" would be recycled for the song "The Walls of a Prison" featured on Cash's album From Sea to Shining Sea.

Sings the Ballads of the True West was re-issued in 2002 (see 2002 in music) through Legacy Recordings, with two bonus tracks, one of which is an instrumental version of a track available on the album. The original album was included on the Bear Family box set Come Along and Ride This Train.

Track listing

{{tracklist
| total_length = 64:52
| title1 = Hiawatha's Vision
| writer1 = Johnny Cash
| length1 = 2:25
| title2 = The Road to Kaintuck
| writer2 = Cash, June Carter
| length2 = 2:43
| title3 = The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part I
| writer3 = Jack V.C. Gilbert, Mary Margaret Hadler
| length3 = 2:54
| title4 = The Ballad of Boot Hill
| writer4 = Carl Perkins
| length4 = 3:48
| title5 = I Ride an Old Paint
| writer5 = Traditional, Cash
| length5 = 2:58
| title6 = Hardin Wouldn't Run
| writer6 = Cash
| length6 = 4:19
| title7 = Mr. Garfield
| writer7 = Ramblin' Jack Elliott
| length7 = 4:35
| title8 = Streets of Laredo
| writer8 = Traditional, Cash
| length8 = 3:39
| title9 = Johnny Reb
| writer9 = Merle Kilgore
| length9 = 2:50
| title10 = A Letter from Home
| writer10 = Maybelle Carter, Dearest Dean
| length10 = 2:35
| title11 = Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
| writer11 = Traditional, Cash
| length11 = 2:26
| title12 = Mean as Hell
| writer12 = Cash
| length12 = 3:07
| title13 = Sam Hall
| writer13 = Tex Ritter
| length13 = 3:15
| title14 = 25 Minutes to Go
| writer14 = Shel Silverstein
| length14 = 3:14
| title15 = The Blizzard
| writer15 = Harlan Howard
| length15 = 3:53
| title16 = Sweet Betsy from Pike
| writer16 = Jimmie Driftwood
| length16 = 3:57
| title17 = Green Grow the Lilacs
| writer17 = Traditional, Cash
| length17 = 2:47
| title18 = Stampede
| writer18 = Peter La Farge
| length18 = 4:01
| title19 = The Shifting, Whispering Sands Part II
| writer19 = Jack Gilbert, Mary Hadler
| length19 = 2:28
| title20 = Reflections
| writer20 = Cash
| length20 = 2:58
}}{{tracklist
| headline = Bonus Tracks
| collapsed = yes
| total_length = 68:26
| title21 = Rodeo Hand
| writer21 = La Farge
| length21 = 2:27
| title22 = Stampede
| note22 = Instrumental
| writer22 = La Farge
| length22 = 1:07
}}

Personnel

Johnny Cash - vocals, guitar
Luther Perkins - guitar
Norman Blake, Jack Clement - acoustic guitar
Bob Johnson - 12-string guitar, flute, banjo, mandocello
Marshall Grant - bass
W.S. Holland - drums
Michael N. Kazak - drums
Bill Pursell - piano, harpsichord
Charlie McCoy - harmonica
Mother Maybelle Carter - autoharp
The Carter Family, The Statler Brothers - background vocals

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1965	"Mr. Garfield"	Country Singles	15

Modern Interpretations & Associations

Baltimore based creative folklore/music ensemble Television Hill have recorded a 6-song concept EP called My Name's Hardin, the title of which pokes fun at Bob Dylan's misspelling of outlaw Wes Hardin's name on his 1967 release John Wesley Harding and paying homage to Dylan's record and Johnny Cash's double concept LP Sings the Ballads of the True West. The EP is a biographical work exploring Wes Hardin's life and draws from Hardin's autobiography, Letters from Prison and an assortment of other biographical and relevant source material.

Mean as Hell!

In March, 1966 (see 1966 in music), Columbia released Mean as Hell! : Ballads From The True West, a single LP distillation of Sings the Ballads of the True West. It peaked at #4 on the top country albums chart. It has not been released on CD.

{{Infobox album
| name = Mean as Hell! : Ballads From The True West
| type = Album
| artist = Johnny Cash
| cover = JohnnyCashMeanasHell.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 1966
| recorded = August 14, 1959 - April 26, 1965
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{flatlist|

Country
folk}}

| length = 38:15
| label = Columbia
| producer = Don Law, Frank Jones
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title =
| next_year =
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r91929|pure_url=yes}} link]
| rev2 =
| rev2Score =
}}

Track listing

{{tracklist
| total_length = 38:15
| title1 = The Shifting Whispering Sands, Part I
| writer1 = Jack V.C. Gilbert, Mary Margaret Hadler
| length1 = 2:54
| title2 = I Ride an Old Paint
| writer2 = Traditional, Cash
| length2 = 2:58
| title3 = The Road to Kaintuck
| writer3 = Cash, June Carter
| length3 = 2:43
| title4 = A Letter from Home
| writer4 = Maybelle Carter, Dearest Dean
| length4 = 2:35
| title5 = Mean as Hell
| writer5 = Cash
| length5 = 3:07
| title6 = 25 Minutes to Go
| writer6 = Shel Silverstein
| length6 = 3:14
| title7 = Mr. Garfield
| writer7 = Ramblin' Jack Elliott
| length7 = 4:35
| title8 = The Blizzard
| writer8 = Harlan Howard
| length8 = 3:53
| title9 = Streets of Laredo
| writer9 = Traditional, Cash
| length9 = 3:39
| title10 = Sweet Betsy from Pike
| writer10 = Jimmie Driftwood
| length10 = 3:14
| title11 = Stampede
| writer11 = Peter La Farge
| length11 = 2:57
| title12 = Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
| writer12 = Traditional, Cash
| length12 = 2:26
}}

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1965	Country Albums	4

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20061214034439/http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/c/Cash/cash_truewest.htm Luma Electronic album information for Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060904163616/http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/c/Cash/cash_meanashell.htm Luma Electronic album information for Mean as Hell]

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