| The Sound of Johnny Cash | |
| Type: | Studio album |
| Artist: | Johnny Cash |
| Cover: | JohnnyCashTheSoundOfJohnnyCash.jpg |
| Released: | June 4, 1962 |
| Recorded: | April 28, 1961–February 12, 1962 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 25:12 |
| Label: | Columbia |
| Prev Title: | Hymns from the Heart |
| Prev Year: | 1962 |
| Next Title: | All Aboard the Blue Train with Johnny Cash |
| Next Year: | 1962 |
The Sound of Johnny Cash is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash, released on June 4, 1962. Among other songs, it contains "In the Jailhouse Now", a Jimmie Rodgers cover which reached #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 the Chain Gang Now", which was ultimately released in 2006 on 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]
The original 1962 album features a photograph of Johnny Cash taken by American photographer Leigh Wiener at his studio in Los Angeles, California.
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.