These re-recordings of "classic" Cash tunes show WHY the 1950s and early '60s originals will always be the versions that will forever be remembered by serious music fans in future decades. In the original Sun and Columbia versions there was a special something that just made you want to really listen...For CLASSIC CASH there is no substitute for the recordings Johnny Cash made with the REAL Tennessee Two/Three: Marshall Grant on bass, the legendary Luther Perkins on guitar, and later WS Holland on drums. The band included on this album (although WS Holland and longtime guitarist Bob Wootton are present) sounds more like some "cover band" Cash may have picked up on the way to the recording studio. Cash re-recorded some of the songs on this album in 1963 and '64 for the I WALK THE LINE LP on Columbia with much better results! Hardly worth listening to more than once.