Universal Music will release a second volume of the number one US album 'The Legend of Johnny Cash'.
Volume 2 will span Cash's career from 1956 to 2003 and include material from his time at Sun Records, Columbia, Mercury and American.The release will also include a live version of Leonard Cohen's 'Bird On A Wire', previously only available on the 'Unearthed' boxed set.
The album will feature from his Sun Records era, the collection brings together the '50s tracks "There You Go" (#1 Country), "Home Of The Blues" (#3 Country), "Ballad Of A Teenage Queen" (#1 Country) and "The Ways Of A Woman In Love" (#2 Country). Moving to the Columbia label, he concludes the decade with "I Still Miss Someone" and "Don't Take Your Guns To Town" (#1 Country).
His '60s output is represented by the Native American tribute "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes" (#3 Country), pop-flavored "It Ain't Me Babe" (with June Carter) (#4 Country), "Daddy Sang Bass" (#1 Country) and a pair of Celtic-based tracks, "Girl From The North Country" (with Bob Dylan) and "The Long Black Veil."
His Columbia tenure closes with the album's sole '70s contribution, the decade opening "Flesh And Blood" (#1 Country).
From his Mercury days in the late '80s "The Legend Of Johnny Cash Vol. II" connects two Hank Williams related recordings - "The Night Hank Williams Came To Town" (with Waylon Jennings) and "That Old Wheel" (with Hank Williams Jr.).
'The Legend of Johnny Cash Volume 2' will be released on November 21.
