Artist: JOHNNY CASH
Album: SILVER REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1979/ 2002
Media type: CD

Silver is an album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1979. It peaked at #28 on the albums chart. "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky" peaked at #2 on the singles chart; the two other singles, "Bull Rider" and "I'll Say It's True", reached #66 and #42, respectively. Other highlights include "The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore" and "I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Guitar." Recordings of "Cocaine Blues" had previously appeared on At Folsom Prison and Now, There Was a Song!, under the title "Transfusion Blues" on the latter. The album also featured production by Brian Ahern, who controversially introduced digital elements into the songs, to some disapproval of listeners. Silver was re-released in 2002 (see 2002 in music) through Legacy Recordings, with remakes of two early Cash songs, "I Still Miss Someone" and "I Got Stripes," as bonus tracks; both are duets with George Jones. This is the last album that Marshall Grant, the original Tennessee Two bass player, played on. He departed from Cash's band the following year.

TRACKLIST:

1."The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore" (Jean Ritchie) – 3:17
2."Lonesome to the Bone" (Cash) – 2:40
3."Bull Rider" (Rodney Crowell) – 3:12
4."I'll Say It's True" (Cash) – 2:48
Harmony vocals by George Jones
5."(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" (Stan Jones) – 3:49
6."Cocaine Blues" (T. J. "Red" Arnall) – 3:21
7."Muddy Waters" (Phil Rosenthal) – 3:29
8."West Canterbury Subdivision Blues" (Jack Clement) – 3:48
9."Lately I Been Leanin' Toward the Blues" (Billy Joe Shaver) – 2:37
10."I'm Gonna Sit on the Porch and Pick on My Old Guitar" (Cash) – 3:04

Bonus tracks:
11."I Still Miss Someone" (Johnny Cash, Roy Cash) – 2:52
12."I Got Stripes" (Cash, Charlie Williams) – 2:16

LINE-UP:

Johnny Cash - Vocals
Marshall Grant - Bass
W.S. Holland - Drums
Bob Wootton - Electric Guitar
Jack Routh, Jerry Hensley - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar
Jack Clement - Acoustic Guitar
Brian Ahern - Acoustic Guitar, Earthwood Bass, 6-String Bass, Percussion
Earl Ball, Charles Cochran - Piano
Jack Hale, Bob Lewin - Trumpet
Ricky Skaggs - Fiddle
Bob Johnson - Mandocello
Jo-El Sonnier - Concertina/Harmonica
Mark Morris - Percussion
Alisa Jones - Hammer Dulcimer
George Jones, Jack Wesley Routh, June Carter Cash, Helen Carter, Anita Carter, Jan Howard - Vocals