Strawberry Cake (song) explained

Strawberry Cake
Type:	single
Artist:	Johnny Cash
Album:	Strawberry Cake
B-Side:	"I Got Stripes"
Released:	^[1]
Genre:	Country
Label:	Columbia 3-10279
Producer:	Charlie Bragg
Prev Title:	Texas 1947
Prev Year:	1975
Next Title:	One Piece at a Time
Next Year:	1976

"Strawberry Cake" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1976 live album Strawberry Cake.

Released in a live version as single from the album,^{[2] [4]} the song reached number 54 on U.S. Billboard country chart for the week of March 13, 1976.^{[5] [6]} The B-side contained a live version of "I Got Stripes" from the same album.

Content

It is a story song.^[7]

Critical response

In the opinion of Greg Laurie, the author of the book Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon, "Cash's late 1970s output—'The Last Gunfighter Ballad', 'Look at Them Beans', 'Strawberry Cake', and 'The Rambler'—was stale and out of touch."^[8]

External links

• "Strawberry Cake" on the Johnny Cash official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Strawberry Cake (Live) . Johnny Cash Official Site. 2021-10-02.
2. Book: Peter Lewry. I've Been Everywhere: A Johnny Cash Chronicle. 2001. Helter Skelter. 978-1-900924-22-1.
3. ^[2]
4. Book: The Johnny Cash Record Catalog. John L. Smith. 1994. 10. 9780313295065.
5. Johnny Cash. .
6. Hot Country Songs Chart (The week of March 13, 1976). Billboard. 2021-10-02.
7. Book: You Wrote My Life. Melton Alonza McLaurin, Richard A. Peterson. 1992. 142. 9782881245480.
8. Book: Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon. Greg Laurie. 20 August 2019. 9781621579809.