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| For Immediate Release - March 8, 2005 JOHNNY CASH AND JUNE CARTER CASH – TWO LIVES IN MUSIC FOREVER ENTWINED THE LEGEND CELEBRATES 50th ANNIVERSARY OF JOHNNY CASH’S FIRST SINGLE RELEASE IN 1955; CAREER-SPANNING 4-CD BOX SET IN DELUXE AND STANDARD EDITIONS – 104 SONGS, WITH 7 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED COFFEE TABLE-SIZE DELUXE NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION CONTAINS: • 12x16 BOOK WITH HUNDREDS OF RARE & UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS • EXCLUSIVE 12x16 LITHOGRAPH BY TEXAS ARTIST MARC BURCKHARDT • BONUS DVD, JOHNNY CASH: THE FIRST 25 YEARS, 1980 CBS-TV SPECIAL • BONUS CD, JOHNNY CASH ON THE AIR, RADIO DEBUT, MEMPHIS 1954 Musical guests include the Carter Family, June Carter Cash, Bob Dylan, U2, Carl Perkins, the Statler Brothers, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Billy Joe Shaver, Ray Charles, Rodney Crowell, Marty Stuart, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Rosanne Cash, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Carlene Carter, many others Deluxe and standard editions of box set both include new biographical essay written by Patrick Carr, author of 1997 Cash: The Autobiography Plus: Testimonials and tributes written by Kris Kristofferson, Marty Stuart, Marshall Grant, George Jones, Lou Robin, and others KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE – HER LIFE IN MUSIC, FIRST COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF JUNE CARTER CASH’S CAREER 2-CD, 40-song collection spans 1939 with the Original Carter Family through 2003’s Grammy-award winning Wildwood Flower album – including her entire first solo LP of 1975, Appalachian Pride Recordings with Johnny Cash, the Original Carter Family, the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle, Homer & Jethro, Carl Smith, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Earl Scruggs, and others New liner notes essay written by author/journalist Holly George-Warren Anticipation builds for Walk the Line, major studio biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon, due November 2005 Johnny Cash deluxe and standard box sets and June Carter Cash double-CD package to arrive in stores June 7th on Columbia/Legacy The 50th anniversary of Johnny Cash’s first single, “Cry, Cry, Cry” b/w “Hey Porter” (Sun Records 221, released June 21, 1955), which set the stage for a career and lifetime alongside his sweetheart June Carter (whom he married in 1968) that lasted right up until their deaths four months apart in 2003 – now triggers a major double-barreled celebration of both artists’ timeless contributions to country, folk, gospel, rock, and pop music. In honor of the 50th anniversary of Johnny Cash’s entry into recording history, Legacy Recordings has created the most lavish commemorative package ever produced on a single artist in the annals of Columbia Records – and complements it with the first career-spanning comprehensive collection on the woman who was the light of his life. THE LEGEND, an astounding ‘event’ compilation that will be available in deluxe and standard editions, and KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE – HER LIFE IN MUSIC, will both arrive in stores August 2nd on Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. The celebration anticipates the upcoming release of Walk The Line, the 20th Century-Fox motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June. Co-written and directed by James Mangold (Kate & Leopold; Girl, Interrupted) the film is set to open in November. THE LEGEND takes off with 4 CDs as its basic foundation, a total of 104 songs compiled by reissue producer Gregg Geller – including a total of 7 previously unreleased tracks. Each CD is thematic and (mostly) chronological, entitled: Win, Place and Show (i.e., all 27 of his songs that hit #1, #2, or #3 on the C&W chart from 1956 to ’79); Old Favorites and New (27 singles and album tracks from 1955 to ’94); The Great American Songbook (26 songs emphasizing folk, blues, hillbilly, and standards, 1955 to ’80); and Family and Friends (24 songs with a ‘Who’s Who’ multitude of special guests, from 1962 to 2002). Between them they cover every step of the way, from 1955’s “Cry, Cry, Cry” and “Hey Porter” with the Tennessee Two (2 of 18 Sun sides licensed for this collection) through Johnny’s 28-year tenure at Columbia (1955-1983); from latter day recordings on various labels over the next two decades (Mercury, Sugar Hill, Island, Capitol) through tracks done in 2002 with Rosanne Cash and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The final track, the previously unreleased “It Takes One To Know Me,” created from a 1977 demo by Johnny and June, was finished in November 2004 by Carlene Carter (its songwriter), John Carter Cash and his wife Laura. The standard edition of THE LEGEND will be a 5x10 inch display book layout containing a booklet with many uncirculated photographs. There will also be a newly commissioned liner notes essay written by veteran journalist Patrick Carr, author of Cash: The Autobiography (HarperCollins, 1997). The deluxe ‘coffee-table’ sized edition of THE LEGEND will be a highly sought-after collectable housed in a giant 12x16 inch hard-cover book. In addition to the 4 CDs (and Carr’s essay), the supersized book will also contain: 120 pages, presenting hundreds of rare and uncirculated black-and-white and color photographs from the Columbia archives and the House Of Cash family estate and many legendary photographers, and tributes and testimonials written by Kris Kristofferson, Marty Stuart, George Jones, lifelong bassist Marshall Grant, and longtime manager Lou Robin. A 12x16 inch color lithograph (‘suitable for framing’) of Johnny, painted by award-winning artist Marc Burckhardt, known for his cover illustration of June’s final album, 2003’s Wildwood Flower (Johnny’s favorite rendering of June, which he commissioned the artist to re-paint on a wall of their home in Tennessee); A bonus DVD – Johnny Cash: The First 25 Years, one hour of musical numbers only culled from the CBS-TV special that originally aired on March 12, 1980, in which Johnny performs “Hey Porter,” “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Ring Of Fire,” “Ragged Old Flag,” and many other favorites, plus duets with Kris Kristofferson (“Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”) and Waylon Jennings (“There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang”); A bonus CD – Johnny Cash On the Air, a home taping of his first radio appearance (possibly his first recording), on Memphis station KWEM’s Saturday afternoon 15-minute “Mid-South Country Frolics” program in 1954, performing live versions of “Wide Open Road,” “One More Ride,” and a couple others with the Tennessee Two (Marshall Grant and guitarist Luther Perkins) – and reading commercial spots for Home Equipment Company, too (!); followed by a home taping of dj “Texas” Bill Strength’s plug on the “Melody Ranch” program for the historic [August 1955] outdoor Country Jamboree concert at Overton Park Shell the next night with Webb Pierce, Red Sovine, Elvis Presley, Jim Wilson, Sonny James, Bud Deckelman, Johnny Cash, and Wanda Jackson – “rain or shine.” Born into the famous Carter Family dynasty – originally her Uncle A.P. and aunt Sara with June’s mother Maybelle, the group that was recorded by RCA Victor field engineer Ralph Peer at the historic ‘Bristol Sessions’ in 1927 – June was onstage virtually her entire life. Ironically, despite many single releases throughout the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, she did not cut her first full solo album until 1975, and then did not record another album under her own name for a quarter century. For those reasons, there has never been a comprehensive anthology of June’s recording career – until now. To assemble KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE – HER LIFE IN MUSIC, reissue producer Gregg Geller not only tracked her numerous singles as a Columbia artist (from 1952 through the mid-’70s), but also looked to her work with other performers. June’s life is thoughtfully traced in the newly commissioned liner notes essay written by two-time ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award winner Holly George-Warren, the editor of more than a dozen books, and the author of Cowboy: How Hollywood Invented the Wild West, How the West Was Worn, Honky-Tonk Heroes and Hillbilly Angels: The Pioneers of Country & Western Music, and the children’s book Shake, Rattle & Roll: The Founders of Rock & Roll. The collection is fortunate to begin with a glimpse of 10-year old June with the Original Carter Family in 1939, two songs (A.P.’s “Keep On The Sunny Side” and Stephen Foster’s “Oh! Susannah”) recorded at ‘Texican’ border radio station XERA, courtesy of Arhoolie Records. These are the roots of June’s backwoods character ‘Aunt Polly,’ a crowd favorite for years. By the time ten years had gone by, A.P. had retired and split up with Sara, and ‘Mother Maybelle’ was commandeering the group with her daughters June, Anita and Helen (as heard on June’s original “Root, Hog Or Die”). June had given up ‘Aunt Polly’ by this time and brought out ‘Little Junie Carter,’ also a humorous cut-up and a perfect foil for Homer & Jethro on their best-selling parody of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (sub-titled ‘with apologies to Frank Loesser’). By the early ’50s, the group was a Grand Ole Opry staple, when “Johnny Cash, then an Arkansas high-school student, first laid eyes on June, during a class trip to the Opry,” as the notes reveal. “He was already smitten.” “A ravishing blue-eyed beauty,” June married C&W singer (& fellow Columbia artist) Carl Smith in 1952 (“Love Oh Crazy Love”). But it was Elvis Presley who gave June a copy of Johnny Cash’s “Cry, Cry, Cry” 45 rpm Sun single in 1955; the two finally met at the Opry the following year, but it was not until 1961 that Johnny was able to draw closer to June, when he hired the Carter Family to join his touring revue. Johnny and June’s passion culminated in 1963’s “Ring Of Fire” (written by June with Merle Kilgore) and climaxed with their Grammy Award-winning smash hit 1967’s “Jackson,” setting the scene for their marriage the following year. While their 40 year romance is one backdrop for KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE, another is the sheer volume of music that it yielded. With Johnny producing, June finally got to record her first solo LP in 1975, Appalachian Pride, an “undiscovered gem” whose entire program (ten tracks) is the focal point of disc two in this collection. A year later, she acknowledged the spiritual commitment she shared with Johnny in “Far Side Banks Of Jordan.” The collection begins to come full circle with her guest appearance on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. III of 2002, performing A.P. Carter’s venerable “Diamonds In the Rough” with fellow guest Earl Scruggs on banjo. KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE opens with the Original Carter Family singing the title tune together in 1939, and then the song is reprised (at the end of disc one) by the second generation Carter family singing it with Johnny Cash on the 1963 LP of the same title. This collection closes with a third version of the song, recorded in June’s living room in 2003 just a short time before her death, from her posthumously released album Wildwood Flower. It features Johnny and perhaps a third generation of the Carter Family – her daughter Carlene Carter, granddaughter Tiffany Anastasia Lowe, daughter-in-law Laura Cash, and niece Lorrie Carter Bennett. As June told Holly George-Warren, “God comes along every once in a while and puts his hand on people: He says, ‘Okay, you’ll be the Carter Family, you’ll be Hank Williams, you’ll be Elvis Presley. Okay, you’ll be Johnny Cash.’ He doesn’t say that too often.” JOHNNY CASH – THE LEGEND (Columbia/Legacy CXK 93000/limited edition; C4K 92802/standard edition) Disc One: Win, Place and Show – Selections: 1. I Walk the Line (1956, Sun) • 2. There You Go (1956, Sun) • 3. Home Of the Blues (1957, Sun) • 4. Ballad Of a Teenage Queen (1957, Sun) • 5. Guess Things Happen That Way (1958, Sun) • 6. The Ways Of a Woman In Love (1958, Sun) • 7. Don’t Take Your Guns To Town (1958) • 8. Ring Of Fire (with the Carter Family, 1963) • 9. The Matador (with the Carter Family, 1963) • 10. Understand Your Man (with the Carter Family, 1963) • 11. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes (with the Carter Family, 1964) • 12. Orange Blossom Special (1964) • 13. The One On the Right Is On the Left (with the Carter Family, 1965) • 14. Rosanna’s Going Wild (with the Carter Family, 1967) • 15. Folsom Prison Blues (with Carl Perkins, live, 1968) • 16. Daddy Sang Bass (with the Carter Family, the Statler Brothers, Carl Perkins, 1968) • 17. A Boy Named Sue (with Carl Perkins, live, 1969) • 18. What Is Truth (1970) • 19. Sunday Morning Coming Down (1970) • 20. Flesh and Blood (with the Carter Family, 1970) • 21. Man In Black (1971) • 22. A Thing Called Love (with the Carter Family, 1971) • 23. Kate (1972) • 24. Oney (1972) • 25. Any Old Wind That Blows (1972) • 26. One Piece At a Time (1976) • 27. (Ghost) Riders In the Sky (1979). Disc Two: Old Favorites and New – Selections: 1. Hey Porter (1955, Sun) • 2. Cry, Cry, Cry (1955, Sun) • 3. Luther Played the Boogie (1955, Sun) • 4. Get Rhythm (1956, Sun) • 5. Give My Love To Rose (1957, Sun) • 6. I Was There When It Happened (1957, Sun) • 7. Big River (1957, Sun) • 8. I Still Miss Someone (1958) • 9. Pickin’ Time (1958) • 10. The Man On the Hill (1959) • 11. Five Feet High and Rising (1959) • 12. Tennessee Flat-Top Box (1961) • 13. I Got Stripes (1959) • 14. Troublesome Waters (with the Carter Family, 1959) • 15. The Long Black Veil (with the Carter Family, 1964) • 16. Dark As a Dungeon (with the Carter Family, 1963) • 17. The Wall (with the Carter Family, 1964) • 18. 25 Minutes To Go (with the Statler Brothers, 1965) • 19. Cocaine Blues (1968) • 20. Doin’ My Time (1981, previously unreleased) • 21. I Will Rock and Roll With You (with the Carter Family, 1978) • 22. Without Love (with Nick Lowe, 1979) • 23. The Big Light (1987, Mercury) • 24. Highway Patrolman (1983) • 25. I’m Never Gonna Roam Again (1980, previously unreleased) • 26. When I’m Gray (1981, previously unreleased) • 27. Forever Young (with Randy Scruggs, 1994, Mercury). Disc Three: The Great American Songbook – Selections: 1. The Wreck Of the Old 97 (1957, Sun) • 2. Rock Island Line (1957, Sun) • 3. Goodnight Irene (1955, Sun) • 4. Goodbye, Little Darlin’ (1956, Sun) • 5. Born To Lose (1958, Sun) • 6. Walking the Blues (1958) • 7. Frankie’s Man, Johnny (1958) • 8. Delia’s Gone (1961) • 9. In the Jailhouse Now (with the Jordanaires, 1962) • 10. Waiting For a Train (1962) • 11. Casey Jones (1962) • 12. The Legend Of John Henry’s Hammer (with the Carter Family, 1962) • 13. I’ve Been Working On the Railroad (1973, previously unreleased demo) • 14. Sweet Betsy From Pike (1965) • 15. The Streets Of Laredo (with the Carter Family, 1965) • 16. Bury Me Not On the Lone Prairie (with the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers, 1965) • 17. Down In the Valley (1980, previously unreleased demo) • 18. Wabash Cannonball (with the Carter Family, 1965) • 19. The Great Speckle Bird (1959) • 20. Wildwood Flower (1964) • 21. In Them Old Cottonfields Back Home (1962) • 22. Pick A Bale O’ Cotton (1962) • 23. Old Shep (1972) • 24. I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight (with the Carter Family, 1962) • 25. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (1960) • 26. Time Changes Everything (1960). Disc Four: Family and Friends – Selections: 1. Keep On the Sunny Side (with the Carter Family and June Carter Cash, 1974) • 2. Diamonds In the Rough (with Maybelle Carter and the Carter Family, 1972) • 3. (There’ll Be) Peace In the Valley (with the Carter Family, 1962) • 4. Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord) (with the Carter Family, 1962) • 5. Another Man Done Gone (with Anita Carter, 1962) • 6. Pick the Wildwood Flower (with Maybelle Carter, 1972) • 7. Jackson (with June Carter Cash, 1967) • 8. If I Were a Carpenter (with June Carter Cash, 1969) • 9. Girl From the North Country (with Bob Dylan, 1969) • 10. One More Ride (with Marty Stuart, 1981, Sugar Hill) • 11. You Can’t Beat Jesus Christ (with Billy Joe Shaver, 1980, previously unreleased) • 12. There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang (with Waylon Jennings, 1976) • 13. We Ought To Be Ashamed (with Elvis Costello, 1979) • 14. Crazy Old Soldier (with Ray Charles, 1984) • 15. Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine (with the Carter Family and Tommy Cash, 1975) • 16. Who’s Gene Autry? (with the Jordanaires and John Carter Cash, 1977) • 17. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (with Waylon Jennings, 1987, Mercury) • 18. I Walk the Line (Revisited) (with Rodney Crowell, 1998, Sugar Hill) • 19. Highwayman (with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings, 1984) • 20. The Wanderer (with U2, 1993, Island) • 21. September When It Comes (with Rosanne Cash, 2002, Capitol) • 22. Tears In the Holston River (with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, 2002, Capitol) • 23. Far Side Banks Of Jordan (with the Carter Family and June Carter Cash, 1976) • 24. It Takes One To Know Me (with June Carter Cash, Carlene Carter, John Carter Cash, Laura Cash, 1977, previously unreleased). Notes: Original year of recording in parentheses. All selections originally released on Columbia Records (except as noted). All selections are album versions (except as noted). JUNE CARTER CASH - KEEP ON THE SUNNY SIDE – HER LIFE IN MUSIC (Columbia/Legacy C2K 90908) Disc One – Selections: 1. Keep On The Sunny Side (1939) • 2. Oh! Susannah (1939) • 3. Root, Hog Or Die (1949, RCA Victor) • 4. Baby, It’s Cold Outside (1949, RCA Victor) • 5. Country Girl (1949, RCA Victor) • 6. Foggy Mountain Top (1952, Columbia) • 7. Fair And Tender Ladies (1952, Columbia) • 8. He’s Solid Gone (1952, Columbia) • 9. Juke Box Blues (1952, Columbia) • 10. No Swallerin’ Place (1952, Columbia) • 11. Love Oh Crazy Love (1953, Columbia) • 12. He Went Slippin’ Around (1954, Columbia) • 13. Well I Guess I Told You Off (1954, Columbia) • 14. Strange Woman (1956, Columbia) • 15. The Heel (Liberty, 1961) • 16. How Did You Get Away From Me (1964) • 17. Tall Loverman (1964, Columbia) • 18. Without A Love To Call My Own (1964, Columbia) • 19. Ring Of Fire (1964, Columbia) • 20. Keep On The Sunny Side (1963, Columbia). Key to tracks: 1: by the Original Carter Family (A.P., Sara, Maybelle, with June) 2, 9-10, 14-18: by June Carter 3, 6-8, 12-13: by the Carter Sisters (June, Helen, Anita) and Mother Maybelle 4, 5: by Homer & Jethro with June Carter 11: by June Carter & Carl Smith 19: by the Carter Family (June, Helen, Anita, Mother Maybelle) 20: by the Carter Family with Johnny Cash Disc Two – Selections: 1. Jackson (1967, Columbia) • 2. If I Were A Carpenter (1969, Columbia) • 3. The Loving Gift (1972, Columbia) • 4. A Good Man (1971, Columbia) • 5. Ole Slewfoot (1974, Columbia) • 6. Losing You (1975, Columbia) • 7. The Shadow Of A Lady (1975, Columbia) • 8. Gatsby’s Restaurant (1975, Columbia) • 9. Once Before I Die (1975, Columbia) • 10. The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore (1975, Columbia) • 11. East Virginia Blues (1975, Columbia) • 12. Gone (1975, Columbia) • 13. Appalachian Pride (1975, Columbia) • 14. I Love You Sweetheart (1975, Columbia) • 15. Another Broken Hearted Girl (1975, Columbia) • 16. Song To John (1975, previously unreleased) • 17. Far Side Banks Of Jordan (1976, Columbia) • 18. Diamonds In The Rough (2002, Capitol) • 19. Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1999, Dualtone) • 20. Keep On The Sunny Side (2003, Dualtone). Key to tracks: 1-3, 17: by Johnny Cash & June Carter 4-8, 10-16, 19-20: by June Carter Cash 9: by June Carter Cash with Jerry Hensley 18: by June Carter Cash with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Earl Scruggs For further information on JOHNNY CASH and JUNE CARTER CASH, please contact: Kay Clary at Commotion PR, 615.467.6677 (kay@commotionpr.com); Tom Cording at Legacy Media Relations, 212.833.4448; or Randy Haecker at Legacy Media Relations, 212.833.4101 Email: LegacyMediaRelations@sonymusic.com ADDRESS TEARSHEETS TO: Tom Cording or Randy Haecker SONY LEGACY 550 Madison Avenue, 17th floor New York, NY 10022-3211 johnnycashonline.com |
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