I Walk the Line (1964 album)

Occupation

• Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar
• Luther Perkins, lead guitar ( electric guitar )
• Marshall Grant, Bass
• W. S. Holland, drums
• Bob Johnson, guitar
• Jack Clement, guitar
• Norman Blake, guitar, dobro
• Bill Pursell, Piano
• Don Helms, steel guitar
• Charles Garvin, mariachi trumpet
• Bill McElhiney, mariachi trumpet
• Rufus Long, Flute
• Maybelle Carter autoharp
• The Carter Family, backing vocals

I Walk the Line is the 18th studio album of the American country singer Johnny Cash. It was published in May 1964 by Columbia Records under the production of Don Law and Frank Jones.

The album was an attempt by Columbia Records, to beat out earlier hits of cash which he had recorded at Sun Records, new capital. Therefore, Cash took eight hits of his Sun - era New, including I Walk the Line, which became the title song of the album.

Title list

Cash had the following pieces originally recorded for Sun: I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Give My Love to Rose, Hey Porter, Wreck of the Old 97, Big River and Goodbye Little Darlin ' Goodbye. All songs were on Sun albums and released as singles ( with the exception of Wreck of the Old 97, which was not released as a single ). I Still Miss Someone is the remake of a song that was first published on The Fabulous Johnny Cash in 1959. New songs were the Bad News, Understand Your Man, Still in Town and Troublesome Waters.

Chart success

The album reached number one on the country album charts and at the same time also the 53rd place on the pop charts. The single dugout Your Man became a number 1 hit on the Billboard country songs. Lyrically and musically the song is strong on Bob Dylan's folk song Do not Think Twice, It 's All Right ajar, the cash recorded in the following year for his album Orange Blossom Special.