Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three, George Jones, & Roger Miller
March 14, 1961
Houston, TX - The Johnny Cash Show
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SBD > ? > CDR > EAC > FLAC
01 - Roger Miller “Footprints in the Snow”
02 - RM “Invitation to the Blues”
03 - RM “That’s the Way that I Feel”
04 - RM “Half a Mind”
05 - RM “Tall Tall Trees”
06 - RM “Billy Bayou”
07 - RM “In the Summertime”
08 - George Jones “Ragged but Right”
09 - GJ “Accidentally on Purpose” (breaks up, not good quality)
10 - GJ & Roger Miller “Ways of the Word, Ways of a Woman”
11 - GJ & RM “Long Time to Forget”
12 - George Jones “White Lightnin’”
13 - GJ “Window Up Above”
14 - GJ “Treasure of Love”
15 - Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three “Big River”
16 - JC “I Guess Things Happen That Way”
17 - JC “Rock Island Line”
18 - JC “Instumental” (?)
19 - JC “Five Feet High and Rising”
20 - JC “I Got Stripes”
21 - JC “Folsom Prison Blues”
22 - JC “I Walk the Line”
23 - JC “Lead Me Father”
24 - JC “Ballad of Harp Weaver”
25 - JC “The Rebel Johnny-Yuma”, spoofs of Ernest Tubb, Eddy Arnold, and Elvis, gunshots!
26 - JC “Luther’s Boogie”
27 - JC “Goodbye Little Darling”
REMOVED: Johnny Western, Gordon Terry, Claude Gray, Rose Maddox
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.
