Rockabilly Blues | ||||
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Released | September 22, 1980 | |||
Studio | Quadrafonic Studios, Nashville, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Country, country rock [1] | |||
Length | 32:48 | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
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Singles from Rockabilly Blues | ||||
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Rockabilly Blues is an album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1980. Highlights include "Cold Lonesome Morning," which had some minor chart success (No. 53 in the country charts), "Without Love," by his son-in-law, Nick Lowe, and a cover of the witty "The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over." The first two of the aforementioned songs were the only singles from the album, though "Without Love" hardly enjoyed any chart success, peaking at No. 78. "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over" was re-recorded five years later by Cash and Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson, collectively known as The Highwaymen, on their first album entitled Highwayman , though it was, in essence, a duet with Nelson.
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Billboard | (unrated) [2] |
Robert Christgau | B− [3] |
Robert Christgau deemed Rockabilly Blues "an honorable country album with some pretty good songs on it." [3] The Globe and Mail concluded that the album "has more to do with traditional country music than it does hot country-rock." [4] The Boston Globe opined that "best of all is Cash's long awaited discovery of John Prine ('The 20th Century Is Almost Over')." [5]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Cold Lonesome Morning" | J.R. Cash | Earl Poole Ball | 3:21 |
2. | "Without Love" | Nick Lowe | Nick Lowe | 2:26 |
3. | "W-O-M-A-N" | J.R. Cash | Earl Poole Ball | 3:21 |
4. | "The Cowboy Who Started the Fight" | Billy Joe Shaver | Earl Poole Ball | 3:46 |
5. | "The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over" | Steve Goodman, John Prine | Earl Poole Ball | 3:38 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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6. | "Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)" | J.R. Cash | Earl Poole Ball | 3:18 |
7. | "The Last Time" | Kris Kristofferson | Earl Poole Ball | 3:12 |
8. | "She's a Go-er" | J.R. Cash | Earl Poole Ball | 2:28 |
9. | "It Ain't Nothing New Babe" | Billy Joe Shaver | Jack Clement | 4:02 |
10. | "One Way Rider" (with June Carter Cash) | Rodney Crowell | Jack Clement | 3:16 |
Chart (1980) | Peak position |
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Canadian RPM Country Albums | 23 |
Year | Single | Peak positions | |
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US Country | CAN Country | ||
1980 | "Cold Lonesome Morning" | 53 | 74 |
"The Last Time" | 85 | — | |
1981 | "Without Love" | 78 | 68 |
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