America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song

America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	August 7, 1972
Recorded	July 1970
Studio	Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country; folk;
Length	32:57
Label	Columbia
Producer	Larry Butler
Johnny Cash chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[2]

America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song is a concept album and the 40th overall album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1972 (see 1972 in music). As its title suggests, it comprises a number of tracks dedicated to the topic of American history, like several of Cash's other Americana albums. The record is a mix of songs and narration, in which Cash attempts to describe elements of the country's past, including famous personalities like Paul Revere or Big Foot. America also includes re-recordings of "Mr. Garfield", "The Road to Kaintuck", "Lorena," "Remember the Alamo" and "The Big Battle", songs previously released as singles or on albums dating back to 1959. Most of the tracks on the album were written by Cash, with some exceptions, including a rendition of the well-known song "The Battle of New Orleans" and a reading of Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address. The album was included on the Bear Family box set Come Along and Ride This Train.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Opening Dialogue"	Johnny Cash	0:23
2.	"Paul Revere"	Johnny Cash, Glenn D. Tubb	2:17
3.	"Begin West Movement" (Dialogue)	Johnny Cash	0:26
4.	"The Road to Kaintuck"	Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash	1:21
5.	"To the Shining Mountains" (Dialogue)	Johnny Cash	0:48
6.	"The Battle of New Orleans"	Jimmie Driftwood	2:21
7.	"Southwestward" (Dialogue)	Johnny Cash	0:37
8.	"Remember the Alamo"	Jane Bowers	2:26
9.	"Opening the West" (Dialogue)	Johnny Cash	0:56
10.	"Lorena"	Charles Williams	1:50

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Gettysburg Address"	Abraham Lincoln	2:38
2.	"The West" (Dialogue)	Johnny Cash	0:57
3.	"Big Foot"	Johnny Cash	3:02
4.	"Like a Young Colt" (Dialogue)	Johnny Cash	0:38
5.	"Mister Garfield"	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	3:53
6.	"A Proud Land" (Dialogue)	Johnny Cash	0:24
7.	"The Big Battle"	Johnny Cash	3:05
8.	"On Wheels and Wings" (Dialogue)	Johnny Cash	0:30
9.	"Come Take a Trip in My Airship"	Johnny Cash	1:05
10.	"Reaching for the Stars" (Dialogue)	Johnny Cash	0:42
11.	"These Are My People"	Johnny Cash	2:38

Personnel

Johnny Cash - vocals, acoustic guitar
Carl Perkins - electric guitar
Bob Wootton - electric guitar, gut-string guitar
WS Holland - drums
Marshall Grant - bass guitar
Red Lane - rhythm guitar, gut-string guitar
Charles Cochran - piano
Norman Blake - rhythm guitar, gut-string guitar, banjo
Farrell Morris - percussion
Charlie McCoy - harmonica, bass guitar
Ray Edenton - rhythm guitar

Additional personnel

Produced by: Larry Butler
Dialogue written by: Johnny Cash
Cover design: Bill Barnes
Cover photo: Al Clayton

Charts

Album - Billboard (United States)

Year	Chart	Position
1972	Country Albums	3
1972	Pop Albums	176

References

^ America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song at AllMusic
^ Berger, Arion (2004). "Johnny Cash". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. pp. 145–49. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

External links

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[1] America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song at AllMusic

[Berger-2] Berger, Arion (2004). "Johnny Cash". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. pp. 145–49. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.

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