Songs of Our Soil

Occupation

• Johnny Cash, vocals, guitar
• Luther Perkins, lead guitar ( electric guitar )
• Marshall Grant, Bass
• Morris Palmer, drums
• Marvin Hughes, piano

Songs of Our Soil is the sixth studio album by the American country singer Johnny Cash. It was released in September 1959 on Columbia Records and was produced by Don Law.

The single from the album Five Feet High and Rising reached the Top 15 of the country and number 76 of the pop charts.

Content of the songs

Almost all songs on the album deal with the death, which it clearly distinguishable from Cash's previous albums. In earlier works such as The Fabulous Johnny Cash especially love played a big role, but in Songs of Our Soil is only the first song Drink to Me of Love.

Five Feet High and Rising is a song about the Mississippi flood that would have swept away in the 1930s almost the House of Cash's in Arkansas.

The Man on the Hill is about a poor farming family, which is dependent on its neighbors. Death seems they already circling. Something similar happens to the protagonists in Hank and Joe and Me, which tells the story of three men who must die of thirst in the desert while they are looking for gold. Clementine is about a lost love, but even here the death plays a central role.

The Great Speckled Bird is a gospel song about the sky as is The Caretaker by a cemetery caretaker, the question arises as to who's going to provide for his funeral when he dies. I Want to Go Home is about a Marine that is a torture for the protagonist because he longs for his homeland.

Old Apache Squaw is the first piece in which cash is concerned with the fate of the Native Americans. He raises the question of how long to suffer the Apaches even before anything is done. Do not Step on Mother's Roses is the fact that the parents die, and you will be even older. My Grandfather's Clock tells of the death of a grandfather, whose great grandfather clock stopped beating when he died. The sale marks the helpfulness over philosophizing gospel song It Could Be You ( Instead of Him).

Title list

Bonus Tracks CD Edition

• Album ( Country )
• Album 1959
• Johnny Cash album