Song

Man in Black

by Johnny Cash · from The Essential Johnny Cash

1971Country2:52Track 11

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Review by Nadia Haddad★★★★Sample

There's a version of me before this album and one after, and the after one is insufferable about it.

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Review by Tomasz W.★★★½Sample

Not every song lands, but when it does it LANDS. “Man in Black” is the keeper.

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Disc 1
1
Hey Porter
sample avg 3.9
2:13
2
Cry, Cry, Cry
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2:24
3
I Walk the Line
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2:44
4
Get Rhythm
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2:12
5
There You Go
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2:17
6
Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (mono)
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2:10
7
Big River (Mono)
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2:30
8
Guess Things Happen That Way (mono)
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1:49
9
All Over Again
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2:12
10
Don't Take Your Guns to Town
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3:03
11
Five Feet High and Rising
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1:45
12
The Rebel-Johnny Yuma
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1:52
13
Tennessee Flat-Top Box
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2:59
14
I Still Miss Someone
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2:35
15
Ring of Fire
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2:36
16
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
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4:08
17
Orange Blossom Special
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3:07
18
Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord)
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3:51
Disc 2
1
It Ain't Me, Babe (with June Carter Cash)
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3:03
2
The One on the Right Is on the Left
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2:48
3
Jackson (with June Carter Cash)
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2:45
4
Folsom Prison Blues (Live at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, CA - January 1968)
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2:43
5
Daddy Sang Bass
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2:20
6
Girl from the North Country
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3:42
7
A Boy Named Sue (Live at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA - February 1969)
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3:47
8
If I Were a Carpenter
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2:59
9
Sunday Morning Coming Down (Live)
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4:10
10
Flesh and Blood
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2:36
11
Man in Black
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2:52
12
Ragged Old Flag
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3:09
13
One Piece at a Time
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4:01
14
(Ghost) Riders In the Sky
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3:45
15
Song of the Patriot (with Marty Robbins)
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3:29
16
Highwayman
sample avg 3.2 · Johnny Cash with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings & Kris Kristofferson
3:03
17
The Night Hank Williams Came to Town (with Waylon Jennings)
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3:24
18
The Wanderer (with Johnny Cash)
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4:44