Easy Rider: The Best Of The Mercury Recordings Excluvie Red VInyl 2LP

In 1986, after almost 30 years on Columbia Records, Country music legend Johnny Cash released his first album on Mercury Records – Class Of ’55, in collaboration with fellow Sun Records alumni Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Seven years later, his last recording before signing with Rick Rubin’s American Recordings would be another collaboration, The Wanderer, with U2. In the years that span those recordings, Johnny Cash released a total of six albums for Mercury Records.

The highlights of that output are presented here, on the brand new compilation Easy Rider: The Best Of The Mercury Recordings. Now remastered for the very first time, using the original Mercury master tapes, the 24 tracks that make up the set feature Cash’s updated interpretations of classics songs Get Rhythm and Tennessee Flat Top Box, the rare B-side Veteran’s Day, Elvis Costello’s The Big Light, and his collaboration with U2, The Wanderer. Featuring brand new liner notes by music writer Scott Schinder, Easy Rider represents the very first collection of Johnny Cash’s Mercury Records recording career.

Now in limited edition red vinyl.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Waymore's Blues
2. We Remember The King
3. The Big Light
4. The Night Hank Williams Came To Town
5. Let Him Roll
6. W. Lee O'Daniel (And The Light Crust Dough Boys)

Side B
1. Ballad Of A Teenage Queen
2. The Last Of The Drifters
3. That Old Wheel
4. Get Rhythm - 1988 Version
5. Tennessee Flat Top Box - 1988 Version
6. Sunday Morning Coming Down - 1988 Version

Side C
1. Veteran's Day
2. A Backstage Pass
3. Cat's In The Cradle
4. Farmer's Almanac
5. Monteagle Mountain
6. I Shall Be Free

Side D
1. I'm An Easy Rider
2. The Greatest Cowboy Of Them All
3. Hey Porter
4. The Mystery Of Life
5. Goin' By The Book
6. The Wanderer - From “Faraway, So Close!” Soundtrack