Come Along and Ride This Train

Summary

Come Along And Ride This Train is a Bear Family Records 4-CD box set of Johnny Cash's music. This set brings together all of his uniquely American albums: Ride This Train, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Sings the Ballads of the True West, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song, From Sea to Shining Sea, and The Rambler.

Come Along And Ride This Train
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Released1991
Recorded1960-1977
GenreCountry
Length282:34
LabelBear Family
ProducerDon Law, Jack Clement, Sam Phillips
Johnny Cash chronology
The Man in Black 1954-1958
(1990)
Come Along And Ride This Train
(1991)
The Man in Black 1959-1962
(1991)
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Track listing edit

Disc One
No.TitleOriginal AlbumLength
1."Come Along and Ride This Train"Previously unreleased2:33
2."Loading Coal"Ride This Train5:02
3."Slow Rider"Ride This Train4:13
4."The Shifting Whispering Sands"Previously unreleased2:30
5."Lumberjack"Ride This Train3:03
6."Dorraine of Ponchartrain"Ride This Train4:47
7."Going to Memphis"Ride This Train4:20
8."When Papa Played the Dobro"Ride This Train2:56
9."Boss Jack"Ride This Train3:57
10."Old Doc Brown"Ride This Train4:14
11."The Legend of John Henry's Hammer"Blood, Sweat and Tears8:25
12."Tell Him I'm Gone"Blood, Sweat and Tears3:03
13."Another Man Done Gone"Blood, Sweat and Tears2:35
14."Casey Jones"Blood, Sweat and Tears3:01
15."Nine Pound Hammer"Blood, Sweat and Tears3:17
16."Chain Gang"Blood, Sweat and Tears2:39
17."Busted"Blood, Sweat and Tears2:16
18."Waiting for a Train"Blood, Sweat and Tears2:06
19."Roughneck"Blood, Sweat and Tears2:11
20."Pick a Bale o' Cotton""Bonanza!" single1:58
21."Cotton Pickin' Hands""The One on the Right Is on the Left" single2:21
Disc Two
No.TitleOriginal AlbumLength
1."Hiawatha's Vision"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:26
2."The Road to Kaintuck"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:42
3."Hammer and Nails" (with The Statler Brothers)"Hammer and Nails" single2:39
4."The Shifting Whispering Sands, Pt. 1"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:53
5."The Ballad of Boot Hill"Sings the Ballads of the True West3:49
6."I Ride an Old Paint"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:57
7."Hardin Wouldn't Run"Sings the Ballads of the True West4:20
8."Mr. Garfield"Sings the Ballads of the True West4:37
9."Streets of Laredo"Sings the Ballads of the True West4:40
10."Johnny Reb"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:51
11."A Letter from Home"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:34
12."Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:26
13."Mean as Hell"Sings the Ballads of the True West3:08
14."Sam Hall"Sings the Ballads of the True West3:16
15."25 Minutes to Go"Sings the Ballads of the True West3:13
16."The Blizzard"Sings the Ballads of the True West3:53
17."Sweet Betsy from Pike"Sings the Ballads of the True West3:57
18."Green Grow the Lilacs"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:47
19."Rodeo Hand"Previously unreleased2:25
20."Stampede"Sings the Ballads of the True West3:59
21."The Shifting Whispering Sands, Pt. 2"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:29
22."Remember the Alamo"The Rebel - Johnny Yuma EP2:47
23."Reflections"Sings the Ballads of the True West2:45
Disc Three
No.TitleOriginal AlbumLength
1."Big Foot" (same version as on "America" but with a shortened spoken Intro)America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song2:48
2."As Long as the Grass Shall Grow"Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian6:09
3."Apache Tears"Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian2:36
4."Custer"Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian2:20
5."The Talking Leaves"Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian3:55
6."The Ballad of Ira Hayes"Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian4:08
7."Drums"Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian5:04
8."White Girl"Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian3:01
9."Old Apache Squaw"Songs of Our Soil1:41
10."The Vanishing Race"Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian4:04
11."Opening Dialogue"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:23
12."Paul Revere"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song2:18
13."Begin West Movement"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:27
14."The Road to Kaintuck"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song1:22
15."To the Shining Mountains"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:49
16."The Battle of New Orleans"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song2:21
17."Southwestward"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:38
18."Remember the Alamo"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song2:27
19."Opening the West"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:54
20."Lorena"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song1:52
21."The Gettysburg Address"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song2:38
22."The West"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:58
23."Big Foot"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song3:02
24."Like a Young Colt"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:38
25."Mr. Garfield"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song3:54
26."A Proud Land"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:25
27."The Big Battle"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song3:05
28."On Wheels and Wings"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:31
29."Come Take a Trip in My Airship"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song1:06
30."Reaching for the Stars"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song0:42
31."These Are My People"America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song2:36
Disc Four
No.TitleOriginal AlbumLength
1."From Sea to Shining Sea"From Sea to Shining Sea 
2."Whirl and The Suck"From Sea to Shining Sea 
3."Call Daddy from the Mines"From Sea to Shining Sea 
4."Frozen Four Hundred Pound Fair to Middlin' Cotton Picker"From Sea to Shining Sea 
5."Walls of a Prison"From Sea to Shining Sea 
6."Masterpiece"From Sea to Shining Sea 
7."You and Tennessee"From Sea to Shining Sea 
8."She Came from the Mountains"Happiness Is You 
9."Another Song to Sing"From Sea to Shining Sea 
10."Flint Arrowhead"From Sea to Shining Sea 
11."Cisco Clifton's Fillin' Station"From Sea to Shining Sea 
12."Shrimpin' Sailin'"From Sea to Shining Sea 
13."From Sea to Shining Sea"From Sea to Shining Sea 
14."Hit the Road and Go"The Rambler 
15."Dialogue #1"The Rambler 
16."If It Wasn't for the Wabash River"The Rambler 
17."Dialogue #2"The Rambler 
18."Lady"The Rambler 
19."Dialogue #3"The Rambler 
20."After the Ball"The Rambler 
21."Dialogue #4"The Rambler 
22."No Earthly Good"The Rambler 
23."Dialogue #5"The Rambler 
24."Wednesday Car"The Rambler 
25."Dialogue #6"The Rambler 
26."My Cowboy's Last Ride"The Rambler 
27."Dialogue #7"The Rambler 
28."Calilou"The Rambler 
29."Dialogue #8"The Rambler 
30."Come Along and Ride This Train"Previously unreleased 

Credits edit

  • Mastered By - Duncan Cowell
  • Producer - Don Law, Frank Jones, Larry Butler, Charlie Bragg, Jack Routh
  • Reissue Producer - Richard Weize