Ride This Train

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.

Track listing

Personnel

Johnny Cash - vocals, rhythm guitar

The Tennessee Two

Luther Perkins - lead guitar

Marshall Grant - bass

Additional musicians

Johnny Western - guitar

Shot Jackson - dobro, steel guitar

Gordon Terry - fiddle

Floyd Cramer - piano

Buddy Harman - drums

Technical

Don Law - Original Recording Producer

Al Quaglieri - Reissue Producer

Seth Foster - Mastering

Mark Wilder - Mastering, Mixing

Stacey Boyle - Tape Research

Matt Kelly - Tape Research

Kay Smith - Tape Research

Arthur Levy - Liner Notes

Darren Salmieri - A&R

Steven Berkowitz - A&R

Patti Matheny - A&R

Howard Fritzson - Art Direction

Alan Lomax - Adaptation, Arranger

Randall Martin - Design

Don Hunstein - Photography

Nick Shaffran - Series Consultant

Dick Miller - CD Art Adaptation

References

Johnny Cash albums

1960 albums

Columbia Records albums

Concept albums

Fiction about rail transport