The Johnny Cash Show feat. Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three, Rose Maddox,
George Jones, Claude Gray, Gordon Terry, Roger Miller, and Johnny Western.

Houston, TX; March 14, 1961.

Reseeded by SDC, November, 2011----I picked this up here maybe five years ago. It seemed worth reviving.


The lineage of this recording is unknown. I’m told by the person who sent it
to me on CD it is an audience recording. The audio reveals a reel-to-reel
source tape. Converted to FLAC by dbPowerAMP.

Disc 1
01 Johnny Western “When the Grass Turns Green” (?)
02 JW “It Only Hurts for a Little While”
03 JW “Ballad of Paladin”
04 Roger Miller “Footprints in the Snow”
05 RM “Invitation to the Blues”
06 RM “That’s the Way that I Feel”
07 RM “Half a Mind”
08 RM “Tall Tall Trees”
09 RM “Billy Bayou”
10 RM “In the Summertime”
11 Gordon Terry “Where Your Arms Used to Be”
12 GT “Wild Honey”
13 GT “Almost Alone”
14 GT “Orange Blossom Special”
15 GT “The Mule” (clip)
16 (clip) Claude Gray “Start Draggin’ the River for Me” (?)
17 CG “I Just Want to be Alone”
18 CG “Family Bible”
19 CG “I’ll Just Have a Cup of Coffee, Then I’ll Go”
20 CG “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy” (?)
21 George Jones “Ragged but Right”
22 GJ “Accidentally on Purpose” (breaks up, not good quality)
23 GJ & Roger Miller “Ways of the Word, Ways of a Woman”
24 GJ & RM “Long Time to Forget”

Disc 2
01 George Jones “White Lightnin’”
02 GJ “Window Up Above”
03 GJ “Treasure of Love”
04 Rose Maddox “Down Down Down”
05 RM “Kissing My Pillow”
06 RM “I Want to Live Again”
07 RM “North to Alaska”
08 RM “Tramp on the Street”
09 RM “Gotta Travel On”
10 RM “Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down”
11 RM “Philadelphia Lawyer”
12 Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three “Big River”
13 JC “I Guess Things Happen That Way”
14 JC “Rock Island Line”
15 JC “Instumental” (?)
16 JC “Five Feet High and Rising”
17 JC “I Got Stripes”
18 JC “Folsom Prison Blues”
19 JC “I Walk the Line”
20 JC “Lead Me Father”
21 JC “Ballad of Harp Weaver”
22 JC “The Rebel Johnny-Yuma”, spoofs of Ernest Tubb, Eddy Arnold,
and Elvis, gunshots!
23 JC “Luther’s Boogie”
24 JC “Goodbye Little Darling”

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Notes:
Johnny Western, who emceed this 1961 show, would later become part of Johnny
Cash’s band. Roger Miller, who had already written hits for Faron Young, Ray
Price, Ernest Tubb, Jim Reeves, and George Jones, was just getting started as a
performing artist. Fiddler Gordon Terry joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1950 and
played with Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys. His biggest single, “Wild Honey”,
charted in 1957. Claude Gray’s career was hot in 1961: "I'll Just Have a Cup
of Coffee (Then I'll Go)," was a crossover pop hit at that time. George Jones,
still basking here in the glow of his 1959 hit “White Lightnin’”, would soon
move away from his honky-tonk, rebel image: His smooth ballad “Tender Years”
was Number One for seven weeks later in 1961. Rose Maddox (formerly of the
fantastic hillbilly band Maddox Brothers and Rose) had five Top 20 hits in that
year, including both sides of the 45 “Kissing my Pillow” and “I Want to Live
Again”, which are performed here. Finally, Johnny Cash performs his hits, in-
cluding “Luther’s Boogie”, which, interestingly, was the highest charter of
all of them.