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Rockabilly Blues is the 64th 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.

Rockabilly Blues
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	September 22, 1980
Recorded	December 7, 1979 - July 15, 1980
Studio	Quadrafonic Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre	Country rock[1]
Length	32:48
Language	English
Label	Columbia
Producer	Earl Poole Ball Jack Clement Nick Lowe
Johnny Cash chronology
A Believer Sings the Truth (1979) Rockabilly Blues (1980) Classic Christmas (1980)
Singles from Rockabilly Blues
"Cold Lonesome Morning" Released: August 1980 "The Last Time" Released: November 1980 "Without Love" Released: January 1981

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Billboard	(unrated)[2]
Robert Christgau	B− link

Track listing

Personnel

• Johnny Cash - vocals, rhythm guitar
• Bob Wootton, Pete Wade, Cliff Parker - electric guitar
• Martin Belmont, Jerry Hensley, Jack Routh, Marty Stuart, Eddy Shaver - guitar
• Jack Clement - dobro, acoustic guitar, producer
• Dave Kirby - acoustic guitar, guitar
• Jerry Hensley - electric, acoustic and rhythm guitar, dobro, harmony vocals
• Billy Joe Shaver - guitar, gut-string guitar
• Philip Donnelly - guitar
• Bobby Thompson - acoustic guitar, banjo
• Dave Edmunds - guitar, engineer
• W.S. Holland, Jerry Carrigan, Larrie Londin, Kenny Malone, Pete Thomas - drums
• Floyd Chance - upright bass
• Earl Poole Ball - electric and acoustic piano, producer
• Daniel Sarenana, John Willis - brass
• Joe Allen, Joe Osborn - electric bass
• Nick Lowe - electric bass, producer
• Shane Keister - Moog synthesizer, Prophet 5 synthesizer
• Terry McMillan - harmonica
• Irv Kane, Rex Peer - trombone on "One Way Rider"
• Don Sheffield, George Cunningham - trumpet on "One Way Rider"
• June Carter Cash - additional vocals on "One Way Rider"
• Charles Cochran - horn arrangement on "One Way Rider"

Production

• Album produced by Earl Poole Ball
• "Without Love" produced by Nick Lowe
• "It Ain't Nothing New Babe" and "One Way Rider" produced by Jack Clement
• Engineers: Gene Eichelberger at Quadrafonic Studio, Nashville, TN; Curt Allen at JMI Recording Studio, Nashville, TN; Dave Edmunds at U.K. Pro Studio, London, England
• Back-up Engineers: Willie Pevear, Barbara Cline at Quadraphonic Studio, Nashville TN
• Recorded at Quadraphonic Studio, JMI Recording Studio, U.K. Pro Studio
• Front Cover Photography: Leonard Kamsler
• Reissue Producer: Dave Nives
• Project Coordinator: Kajetan Koci
• Reissue Designer: Suzanne Ammon

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Canadian RPM Country Albums	23

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1980	"Cold Lonesome Morning"	53	74
	"The Last Time"	85	—
1981	"Without Love"	78	68

References

External links

• Luma Electronic entry on Rockabilly Blues

На других языках

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Rockabilly Blues es el vigésimoctavo álbum del cantante country Johnny Cash lanazdo en 1980 bajo el sello disquero Columbia. Este álbum estaba en estilo Rockabilly (variación del Rock'N Roll), del álbum se desprenden las canciones publicitarias "Cold Lonesome Morning" que tuvo poco éxito (#53) y "Without Love" de su hijastro Nick Lowe disfruto poco el éxito ya que no llegó más lejos del puesto #78, también esta la versión de la canción "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over" que fue regrabada 5 años más tarde por Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson y Kris Kristofferson colectivamente conocidos como The Highwaymen para su primer CD llamado Highwayman y en esencia es un dúo con Willie Nelson.

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