Easy Rider: The Best Of The Mercury Recordings
Released 26.06.20
£24.99 / 12" Double LP
Mercury
0600753897331
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.
Side A
1 Waymore Blues (with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Carl Perkins)
2 We Remember The King
3 The Big Light
4 The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (with Waylon Jennings)
5 Let Him Roll
6 W. Lee O'Daniel (And The Light Crust Dough Boys)
Side B
1 Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (with Roseanne Cash & The Everly Brothers)
2 The Last Of The Drifters (with Tom T. Hall)
3 That Old Wheel (with Hank Williams Jr.)
4 Get Rhythm
5 Tennessee Flat Top Box
6 Sunday Morning Coming Down
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 (with U2)