Johnny Cash: With His Hot and Blue Guitar

This one will be short, I need to pack to go camping.  This is also totally breaking with my intention because I wanted to listen to albums I currently have in my collection.  Problem is I've been wanting a Johnny Cash album for-ever.  Of all the stuff in my collection I just can't believe this wasn't one of them. 

Johnny Cash: With His Hot and Blue Guitar

Sun records, famous for recording Elvis Presley in the beginning of his career, launched some other big names back then, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.  These were on 78 rpm singles records and this album is apparently the first full length album ever issued by Sun Records.  It is a collection of Johnny Cash singles and this 180 gram lp does NOT sound like it was recorded 60 years ago.  I swear if I close my eyes it sounds like Johnny is live tracking his vocals in the corner of the room (with a good amount of rockabilly slap-back echo).  This is such a clear, "warm" recording I'm blown away.  I can hear the guitar so clearly I can tell what kind of strings he has on his guitar and I'm going to run out to buy some right now.  I've got a kid on either side of me bopping back and forth as I try to write and Aria has given this her stamp of approval:  "I really like this one daddy".  That's my girl. 

Notable tracks on here are Rock Island Line,  I Walk the Line, I Heard That Lonesome Whistle and Folsom Prison Blues.  My next job is to get out my guitar and learn all these songs in full.  Can't believe I waited until I was 40. 

This makes me want to pull out more Johnny Cash albums and give them a listen, but since I don't have anymore, it will have to wait until another day.