Blood, Sweat and Tears (Album)
Occupation
- Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar
- Luther Perkins, lead guitar ( electric guitar )
- Marshall Grant, Bass
- W. S. Holland, drums
- Bob Johnson, Guitar, Banjo
- Bill Pursell, Piano
- Maybelle Carter autoharp
- Anita Carter, singing with Another Man Done Gone
- The Carter Family, backing vocals
Blood, Sweat and Tears is the 15th studio album of the American country singer Johnny Cash. It was released in January 1963 on Columbia Records and produced by Don Law and Frank Jones. It is a concept album that deals with the hard life of workers.
Content of the songs
The musical work begins with the nearly nine -minute-long epic The Legend of John Henry 's Hammer, which tells the story of American folklore hero John Henry, who has to work at an early age because his father every now and then ends up in jail and therefore not in the is able to feed the extended family, which consists in the lyrics of a dozen children. Henry loses his job later, when the machines are becoming increasingly important for the industry. He rises to the challenge and compete against the machine and wins, paid for it but with his life.
Tell Him I'm Gone is a bluesy number, which is about a worker who quits his job and moves away. With Anita Carter Cash sings a cappella Another Man Done Gone. The play tells the story of a prisoner who breaks out of prison and is hung on a tree. Casey Jones is based on the real train wreck of 1900, which is at the same time an adaptation of a traditional music from the States. Nine Pound Hammer is about workers in the mine, who dream of working easy to lay down, while Chain Gang reflects the history of chained prisoners.
The value written by Harlan Howard song Busted was later covered by Ray Charles and acts of a desperate farmer who has no prospect of improvement. His hens lay no more eggs, his cows give no milk, and after he has struggled through, he must realize to ask his brother for help, that this is in the same situation. He has now afraid to become a criminal out of desperation, but he is convinced that God will help him.
Waiting for a Train is an old song by Jimmy Rodgers and the sad story of a day laborer, to be able to jump on a train to go home, but is thrown out of the train driver in the Texas hopes. The sale marks Roughneck, which is about a man who purports to be a good for nothing and never achieve anything in life.
Title list
Admissions of individual pieces
Three songs from the album should resampling cash years later. Busted and The Legend of John Henry 's Hammer appeared again on Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison and Waiting for a Train was recorded during the sessions for American Recordings 1993/1994, but appeared only after Cash's death in 2003 on Unearthed.