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One of the things I think makes Cash so awesome is that his emotions are completely on the surface when he sings. You can tell when he's singing with someone he admires and likes (in the case of Bob Dylan) or loves (in the case of June Carter Cash). I think what I was trying to say is that he doesn't sing any differently - inflection, timing, level of improvisation - when singing with someone else than they do solo. If Johnny did two takes of the same song back-to-back, one with June and one solo, and you played just his parts I don't think you'd hear a significant difference. It's not like Bing Crosby & Fred Astaire, the legendary Bing & David Bowie version of 'Little Drummer Boy', Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong or anything by Simon & Garfunkel, Hall & Oates, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peter Paul & Mary or any of the great harmony groups. It's also why I think the best-selling Frank Sinatra 'Duets' sets were artistic failures even if they were commercial blockbusters. Frank refused to be in the studio with any of the artists (except maybe one or two), recorded all of his parts, which were then sent to the other artists to sing along to, and it shows.

Those are both awesome songs, BTW. I'm not sure I'd ever heard 'Daddy Sang Bass' actually. Great interpolation of different sources and genre-switching, which was another real strength of Cash's. There's a fantastic three-disc set that Columbia put out a while back called Love, God, Murder that really showcases three of Johnny's primary musical facets.

I don't know if you're familiar with Nick Cave, but if you want to hear the closest thing we have to Cash currently, he would be it, and is an amazing artist in his own right. Phenomenal songwriter and interpreter of others' material and a great emotive singer with a range of subject matter equaling Cash (Cave's 'Murder Ballads' CD and the next two CDs he put out, 'The Boatman's Call' and 'No More Shall We Part', really show this to great effect).

If only it was a double lp set...

https://www.amazon.com/Saturday-Night-Sunday-Morning-STANLEY/dp/B000008P8N

Instrumental Albums:

Earl Scruggs - Foggy Mountain Banjo

Bill Emerson - Home of the Red Fox

Jim Mills - Hide Head Blues

Bill Keith - Something Auld, Something Newgrass, Something Borrowed, Something Bluegrass

Jayme Stone - Room of Wonders

Non-instrumental Albums:

JD Crowe and the New South - 'Rounder 0044'

Here Today - Self Titled

Muleskinner - A Potpourri of Bluegrass

Reno and Smiley - Just get the box set

Jimmy Martin - Another box set you should get

Osborne Brothers - Country Bluegrass

Jim and Jesse - In the Tradition

Hot Rize - So Long of a Journey

Seldom Scene - Act I

John Hartford - Aereo-Plain

Newgrass Revival - Best of

Johnson Mountain Boys - At the Old Schoolhouse

Nashville Bluegrass Band - American Beauty

Bluegrass Album Band - Definitely Volumes 1-3

Boone Creek - One Way Track

Larry Sparks - Coldest Part of Winter... or get every album he's ever made

Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver - The Original Band

Lonesome River Band - Old Country Town

IIIrd Tyme Out - Back to the Mac

Chapmans - Grown Up

Blue Highway - Through the Window of a Train

Steeldrivers - Self Titled

Boxcars - Self Titled

Junior Sisk and Rambler's Choice - Heartaches and Dreams

How to Grow a Woman from the Ground - Chris Thile... or pre-Punch Brothers

Punch Brothers - Antifogmatic

Infamous Stringdusters - I like "Things that Can Fly" but "Fork in the Road" and "Silver Sky" are also very good

Deadly Gentlemen - Carry Me to Home

There's a good start. I'll try to add more as I think of them.

Buck Owens, Dust on Mother's Bible. http://www.amazon.com/Dust-Mothers-Bible-Owens-Buckaroos/dp/B0000DG020#

I believe he wrote this song for Johnny Cash but it never got recorded. Instead they did a cover of Redemption Song that only appeared on a Cash box set of his American Recordings with Rick Rubin.

Every track is on this. It's only $22 and would be the easiest option as singles were not just the format of the era, but Jimmy was a Bluegrass Boy off and on from late 1949, until departing for the final time in 1954. Jimmy's presence on Bill's sessions is sporadic at this time, being replaced by the likes of fellow GOATS Carter Stanley & Edd Mayfield, along with the two Owen Bradley mandated electric sessions. If you just want to find random tracks on youtube, or you decide to buy the linked set and want to see which singles Jimmy played on specifically, Ctrl + F "James Henry 'Jimmy' Martin" here to find all of Jimmy's sessions as a BGB.

If you listen to Unearthed, and invert the order of the final two songs on Disc 5, I think it provides a nice bittersweet effect. "Hurt" sounds like he's dying. "We'll Meet Again" makes it sound like, well...that you'll meet him again...after he's dead. You know?

Nevermind.

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Could it be this Time Life compilation?