Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West

Album by Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash Sings the Ballads of the True West is a studio album by American singer Johnny Cash, released in 1965. The album is a concept collection of narrative ballads about the American West performed in Cash's country and folk idiom with restrained, acoustic-driven arrangements and occasional spoken passages, representing an ambitious thematic project in his mid-1960s career.
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  1. 1.
    Hiawatha's Vision
    2:25
  2. 2.
    The Road to Kaintuck
    2:41
  3. 3.
    The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Part I
    2:53
  4. 4.
    The Ballad of Boot Hill
    3:49
  5. 5.
    I Ride an Old Paint
    2:57
  6. 6.
    Hardin Wouldn't Run
    4:20
  7. 7.
    Mister Garfield
    4:37
  8. 8.
    The Streets of Laredo
    3:40
  9. 9.
    Johnny Reb
    2:51
  10. 10.
    A Letter From Home
    2:34
  11. 11.
    Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
    2:27
  12. 12.
    Mean as Hell
    3:08
  13. 13.
    Sam Hall
    3:16
  14. 14.
    25 Minutes to Go
    3:12
  15. 15.
    The Blizzard
    3:53
  16. 16.
    Sweet Betsy From Pike
    3:57
  17. 17.
    Green Grow the Lilacs
    2:46
  18. 18.
    Stampede
    3:59
  19. 19.
    The Shifting, Whispering Sands, Part II
    2:29
  20. 20.
    Reflections
    2:44

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