Johnny Cash, like so many others, followed on the heels and inspiration of Elvis at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. But while others (save for possibly Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis) would fight for the scraps from this ‘new sound’, Johnny less-than-obligingly would ignore all the best advice. He began with the simplest of songs delivered in a farm boy’s tone and, with the Tennessee Three in tow, grew the sound into an identity.  Our show this week will lean on his own recordings as well as music from performers he was inspired by…we’ll also include music from contemporaries and those who he inspired.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Johnny Cash	Ring Of Fire	Columbia Country Classics – Volume 4: The Nashville Sound
3	The Chuck Wagon Gang	After The Sunrise [Album Version]	Columbia Country Classics Volume 1: The Golden Age
4	Brother Claude Ely	There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down	Favorite Sacred Songs
5	Gene Autry	I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blues Eyes	The Essential Gene Autry 1933-1946
6	Gene Autry	High Steppin' Mama	American Roots- A History Of American Folk Music: [Disc 2]
7	Bob Wills	Faded Love	For the Last Time
8	Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	San Antonio Rose	The Country Music Hall Of Fame
9	The Carter Family	Anchored In Love	The Carter Family 1927 – 1934 [Disc 1]
10	Johnny Cash	Johnny Cash – Cowboy's Prayer	Johnny Cash Interviews
11	Goebel Reeves	Cowboy's Prayer	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
12	The Chuck Wagon Gang	We Are Climbing	Flowers In The Wildwood
13	Johnny Cash	Big River	His Sun Years: Down South
14	Johnny Cash	Hey Porter	The Man In Black 1954-1958 [Disc 1]
15	Johnny Cash	Five Feet High And Rising	Songs Of Our Soil
16	Johnny Cash	Pickin' Time	The Fabulous Johnny Cash
17	Johnny Cash/The Carter Family	Keep on the Sunny Side	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
18	Johnny Cash	I Walk The Line	Classic Country
19	June Carter Cash	Oh, Susannah	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
20	Carter Sisters/Mother Maybelle Carter	Fair and Tender Ladies	Keep on the Sunny Side: Her Life in Music Disc 1
21	Johnny Cash & June Carter	Jackson	Carryin' on With Johnny Cash & June Carter
22	Rosanne Cash	I Still Miss Someone	Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
23	Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan	Girl From The North Country	Nashville Skyline
24	Johnny Cash	Man in Black	16 Biggest Hits
25	Johnny Cash	Ain't No Grave	American VI: Ain't No Grave
26	Johnny Cash	Tear Stained Letter	American IV: Man Comes Around
27	Johnny Cash	Folsom Prison Blues	At Folsom Prison
28	George Jones/Johnny Cash	I Got Stripes	My Very Special Guests [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
29	Rosanne Cash	Tennessee Flat Top Box	King's Record Shop
30	Emmylou Harris; The Milk Carton Kids	Apache Tears	Look Again to the Wind: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
31	Bruce Springsteen	Give My Love To Rose	Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
32	Johnny Cash	Wanted Man	The Mystery Of Life
33	Bob Dylan	Train Of Love	Kindred Spirits: A Tribute To The Songs Of Johnny Cash
34	Dwight Yoakam	Understand Your Man	Dwight's Used Records