Ride This Train Explained

Ride This Train
Type:studio
Artist:Johnny Cash
Cover:JohnnyCashRideThisTrain.jpg
Alt:Cash dressed as a cowboy, inserting a bullet into a gun
Released:August 1, 1960
Recorded:December 14, 1959 – February 16, 1960
Label:Columbia
Prev Title:Now, There Was a Song!
Prev Year:1960
Next Title:Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams
Next Year:1960

Ride This Train is the sixth album by American country singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. It was originally released on August 1, 1960 and was re-issued on March 19, 2002, containing four additional bonus tracks.

It is considered Cash's first concept album. The album is billed as a "travelogue", with Cash providing spoken narration before each song to give context, in several cases playing historical characters, such as John Wesley Hardin, and describing different destinations around the United States visited by train. The songs themselves are not generally railroad-themed.

The success of this LP inspired his first label, Sun, to release the compilation LP All Aboard the Blue Train, which consisted of previously released "train"-inspired songs, including his hit "Folsom Prison Blues".

Ride This Train was included on the Bear Family box set Come Along and Ride This Train.

Personnel

The Tennessee Two
Additional musicians
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