“Ride This Train” by Johnny Cash - album review
| features in: Album Chart of 1960 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1960s |
“A stirring travelogue of Americana in song and story” is how the front cover sums up this release – dubiously described by many as one of the first ever “concept” albums. (Have these people never heard of Woody Guthrie?) There’s zero schmaltz on-board – this is full of cool stuff all the way. Each of the songs is linked with spoken word from Cash purporting to be on a train journey, with the chug-a-chug of the steam train a background constant. Covers the States. Bigs up the indians. Bigs up the working class who built the country. This is what we want Johnny boy. We’re cooking the gas again. All aboard…
The Jukebox Rebel
06–Jun–2007
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [04:58]  Johnny Cash - Loading Coal (Merle Travis) Country |
| A2 | [04:12]  Johnny Cash - Slow Rider (Johnny Cash) Country |
| A3 | [03:02] Johnny Cash - Lumberjack (Leon Payne) Country |
| A4 | [04:47]  Johnny Cash - Dorraine Of Ponchartrain (Johnny Cash) Country |
| B1 | [04:26]  Johnny Cash - Going To Memphis (Johnny Cash, Hollie Dew, Alan Lomax) Country |
| B2 | [02:55]  Johnny Cash - When Papa Played The Dobro (Johnny Cash) Country |
| B3 | [03:50]  Johnny Cash - Boss Jack (Tex Ritter) Country |
| B4 | [04:10]  Johnny Cash - Old Doc Brown (Clyde Foley) Country |
