The Sound of Johnny Cash

 The Sound of Johnny Cash  is the twelfth album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released in 1962. Among other songs, it contains "In the Jailhouse Now", a Jimmie Rodgers cover which reached No. 8 on the Country charts, and "Delia's Gone", which Cash would re-record years later, on American Recordings, in 1994. Cash would also go on to record a significantly slower, more ballad-like version of "I'm Free from theCHAIN Gang Now", which was ultimately released in 2006 on American V: A Hundred Highways as the last track on the album.

During the recording sessions for the album, Cash rerecorded his Sun Records hits "Folsom Prison Blues", "Hey Porter" and "I Walk the Line", but none of these versions were ultimately used on the album and sat unreleased until the 1990s.[1]

Cover imagery
The original 1962 album features a photograph of Johnny Cash taken by American photographer Leigh Wienerat his studio in Los Angeles, California.

Personnel

 * Johnny Cash - Main Performer, Vocals, Guitar
 * Luther Perkins - Guitar
 * Ray Edenton - Guitar
 * Don Helms - Steel
 * Marshall Grant - Bass
 * Buddy Harman - Drums
 * Floyd Cramer - Piano

Charts
The album did not chart in the Billboard album charts. In 1962 the single "In the Jailhouse Now" peaked at #8 in the Billboard Country Singles.[ 2 ]