Songs of Our Soil

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Songs of Our Soil
Songs of Our Soil cover
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released Original: September 1959
Re-issued: August 27, 2002
Recorded July 24, 1958 - March 12, 1959
Genre Country
Length Original: 25:40
Re-issue: 29:34
Label Columbia
Producer(s) Don Law, Al Quaglieri
Professional reviews
Johnny Cash chronology
Hymns by Johnny Cash
(1959)		 Songs of Our Soil
(1959)		 Sings Hank Williams
(1960)


Songs of Our Soil is an album by the singer Johnny Cash. It was originally released in September of 1959 (see 1959 in music), but later re-issued on August 27, 2002 (see 2002 in music) with two bonus tracks.

  1. "Drink to Me" (Cash) – 1:54
  2. "Five Feet High and Rising" (Cash) – 1:46
  3. "The Man on the Hill" (Cash) – 2:09
  4. "Hank and Joe and Me" (Cash) – 2:13
  5. "Clementine" (Billy Mize) – 2:30
  6. "Don't Step on Mother's Roses" (Cash) – 2:34
  7. "Great Speckled Bird" (Roy Carter/Guy Smith) – 2:09
  8. "I Want to Go Home" (Cash) – 1:58
  9. "The Caretaker" (Cash) – 2:06
  10. "Old Apache Squaw" (Cash) – 1:46
  11. "My Grandfather's Clock" (Traditional) – 2:45
  12. "It Could Be You (Instead of Him)" (Vic McAlpin) – 1:50

  1. "I Got Stripes" (Cash/Charlie Williams) – 2:05
  2. "You Dreamer You" (Cash) – 1:49

  • Johnny Cash - Arranger, Guitar, Vocals, Main Performer
  • Al Casey - Guitar
  • Luther Perkins - Guitar (Electric)
  • Marshall Grant - Bass guitar
  • Marvin Hughes - Piano
  • Morris Palmer - Drums

Additional personnel

  • Don Law - Original Recording Producer
  • Al Quaglieri - Reissue Producer
  • Seth Foster - Engineer
  • Mark Wilder - Mastering, Mixing
  • Billy Altman - Liner Notes
  • Don Hunstein - Photography
  • Steven Berkowitz - A&R
  • Howard Fritzson - Art Direction
  • Randall Martin - Design
  • John Christiana - Packaging Manager

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1959 "Five Feet High and Rising" Country Singles 14
1959 "Five Feet High and Rising" Pop Singles 76


Johnny Cash
Studio albums

With His Hot and Blue Guitar | Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous | The Fabulous Johnny Cash | Greatest! | Hymns by Johnny Cash | Songs of Our Soil | Sings Hank Williams | Ride This Train | Now, There Was a Song! | Now Here's Johnny Cash | The Lure of the Grand Canyon | Hymns from the Heart | The Sound of Johnny Cash | All Aboard the Blue Train | Blood, Sweat and Tears | Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash | The Christmas Spirit | I Walk the Line | Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian | Orange Blossom Special | Sings the Ballads of the True West | Everybody Loves a Nut | Happiness is You | Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter | From Sea to Shining Sea | Old Golden Throat | Heart of Cash | The Holy Land | More of Old Golden Throat | Hello, I'm Johnny Cash | Man in Black | A Thing Called Love | America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song | The Johnny Cash Family Christmas | Any Old Wind That Blows | Johnny Cash and His Woman | Ragged Old Flag | Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me | The Johnny Cash Children's Album | Sings Precious Memories | John R. Cash | Look at Them Beans | One Piece at a Time | The Last Gunfighter Ballad | The Rambler | I Would Like to See You Again | Gone Girl | Silver | A Believer Sings the Truth | Rockabilly Blues | Classic Christmas | The Baron | The Adventures of Johnny Cash | Johnny 99 | Highwayman | Rainbow | Believe in Him | Heroes | Class of '55 | Johnny Cash is Coming to Town | Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series | Water from the Wells of Home | Boom Chicka Boom | Highwayman 2 | The Mystery of Life | American Recordings | The Road Goes on Forever | Unchained | American III: Solitary Man | American IV: The Man Comes Around | American V: A Hundred Highways | American VI

Live albums

At Folsom Prison | At San Quentin | The Johnny Cash Show | På Österåker | Strawberry Cake | The Survivors Live | VH1 Storytellers | At Madison Square Garden

Soundtrack albums

I Walk the Line | Little Fauss and Big Halsy | The Gospel Road | Return to the Promised Land

Compilation albums

Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 | The World of Johnny Cash | Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | International Superstar | Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 | The Unissued Johnny Cash | Johnny & June | Tall Man | Encore | Love, God and Murder | The Essential Johnny Cash | Unearthed | The Legend | The Legend of Johnny Cash | Personal File | The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II

Songs

"25 Minutes to Go" | "A Boy Named Sue" | "Cat's in the Cradle" | "Cocaine Blues" | "Cry Cry Cry" | "Dark as a Dungeon" | "Engine 143" | "Folsom Prison Blues" | "Get Rhythm" | "Goodnight, Irene" | "Green Green Grass of Home" | "Greystone Chapel" | "Hey Porter" | "Home of the Blues" | "Hurt" | "I Walk the Line" | "In My Life" | "It Ain't Me Babe" | "Jackson" | "Like the 309" | "The Man Comes Around" | "One Piece at a Time" | "The One on the Right is on the Left" | "Remember the Alamo" | "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" | "Ring of Fire" | "What'd I Say"

Family

June Carter Cash | John Carter Cash | Rosanne Cash | Carlene Carter | Vivian Liberto | Tommy Cash | Carter Family

Related articles

Sun Records | Columbia Records | Mercury Records | American Recordings | Legacy Recordings | Lost Highway Records | Sam Phillips | Jack Clement | Rick Rubin | Carl Perkins | Jerry Lee Lewis | The Highwaymen | Waylon Jennings | Kris Kristofferson | Willie Nelson | Folsom Prison | San Quentin State Prison | Outlaw country | Tennessee Three | Shel Silverstein | Walk the Line | Man in Black | Cash: The Autobiography


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