Songs of Our Soil

Album by Johnny Cash

Songs of Our Soil is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released in 1959. The album features country and folk-rooted arrangements with sparse instrumentation and sombre, narrative lyrics centred on themes of mortality and rural life, and it represents a move in Cash's early mainstream recording career towards more thematically focused, storytelling albums.
First released: September 1959

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Drink to Me
    1:54
  2. 2.
    Five Feet High and Rising
    1:46
  3. 3.
    The Man on the Hill
    2:09
  4. 4.
    Hank and Joe and Me
    2:13
  5. 5.
    Clementine
    2:30
  6. 6.
    The Great Speckled Bird
    2:09
  7. 7.
    I Want to Go Home
    1:58
  8. 8.
    The Caretaker
    2:06
  9. 9.
    Old Apache Squaw
    1:46
  10. 10.
    Don’t Step on Mother’s Roses
    2:34
  11. 11.
    My Grandfather’s Clock
    2:45
  12. 12.
    It Could Be You (Instead of Him)
    1:50
  13. 13.
    I Got Stripes
    2:05
  14. 14.
    You Dreamer You
    1:49

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