The Best of Johnny Cash - Easy Guitar Songbook | 27 Country Classics with Guitar Tabs and Chords | Includes Folsom Prison Blues I Walk the Line Ring of Fire and More

by Johnny Cash

(Easy Guitar). This second edition features 27 songs from the heart & soul of country, in easy arrangements with notes and tab. Includes: A Boy Named Sue * Cry, Cry, Cry * Daddy Sang Bass * Folsom Prison Blues * (Ghost) Riders in the Sky * I Walk the Line * It Ain't Me Babe * Jackson * Orange Blossom Special * Ring of Fire * Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down * Understand Your Man * and more masterpieces from the Man in Black!

Genres: Music

88 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

Johnny Cash, born J. R. Cash, also known as "The Man in Black", was a multiple Grammy Award-winning American country singer-songwriter. Cash is widely considered to be one of the most influential American musicians of the 20th century.

Cash was known for his deep, distinctive voice, his trademark dark clothing which earned him his nickname, the boom-chick-a-boom or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, and his demeanor. He rarely (if ever) wavered from introducing himself before performing, with the greeting, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."

Much of Cash's music, especially that of his later career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption. His signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Ring of Fire", "That Old Wheel" (a duet with Hank Williams Jr.), "Cocaine Blues", and "Man in Black". He also recorded several humorous songs, such as "One Piece at a Time", "The One on the Right Is on the Left", "Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog" a duet with June Carter, Jackson, and "A Boy Named Sue"; rock-and-roll numbers such as "Get Rhythm"; and various railroad songs, such as "Rock Island Line" and "Orange Blossom Special".

He sold over 90 million albums in his nearly fifty-year career and came to occupy a "commanding position in music history".