Johnny Cash - With His Hot and Blue Guitar (Mono Hybrid SACD) * * *

Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar on Mono Hybrid SACD: Mastered Direct-to-DSD from Original Analog Master Tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, Includes 3 Bonus Tracks Not on the LP Version

Intervention Records continues its Sun Records Hi-Fi Series—featuring classic titles from the Memphis label, remastered from original master tapes in the Sun vaults—with a brilliant new Mono Hybrid CD/SACD of Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!

This iconic album, features “I Walk The Line,” “Cry, Cry, Cry,” and “Folsom Prison Blues,” 3 extra tracks not on the vinyl release and restored artwork featuring new liner notes. “I never imagined that I’d hear the iconic voice of Johnny Cash on Intervention Records!” said Shane Buettner, Intervention Records’ founder. “And I don’t think music fans around the world have ever heard Johnny’s voice, or Sam Phillips’ famous Sun Studio sound, as clearly and definitively as they will on this new mono remaster. This is as close you can get to a time machine back to Memphis in the 1950s!”

Originally issued in the fall of 1957—the first long-player for Sam Phillips’ Sun Records—Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! showcases the stripped-down sound that would make the future Man in Black one of the most enduring and respected musicians of the 20th century. Backed only by his “Tennessee Two” (Luther Perkins on lead guitar and Marshall Grant on upright bass) and augmented by Phillips’ signature studio slapback that gave Cash’s “boom-chicka-boom” sound its kick, Hot and Blue Guitar! is the album that introduced many to Cash’s sonorous baritone.