From Sea to Shining Sea

From Sea to Shining Sea is a concept album and 26th album by country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1968 (see 1968 in music). Each track on the album was written by Cash; none of them were released as singles. The album was included on the Bear Family box set Come Along and Ride This Train.

From Sea to Shining Sea
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	January 15, 1968
Recorded	March 1 – April 13, 1967
Genre	Country folk
Length	31:54
Label	Columbia
Producer	Don Law Frank Jones
Johnny Cash chronology
Carryin' On with Johnny Cash & June Carter (1967) From Sea to Shining Sea (1968) At Folsom Prison (1968)

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"The Walls of a Prison" reuses the melody of "Streets of Laredo" from Cash's 1965 album Sings the Ballads of the True West.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Johnny Cash.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"From Sea to Shining Sea"	1:38
2.	"The Whirl and the Suck"	3:07
3.	"Call Daddy from the Mines"	3:03
4.	"The Frozen Four-Hundred-Pound Fair-to-Middlin' Cotton Picker"	2:32
5.	"The Walls of a Prison"	4:01
6.	"The Masterpiece"	2:47
7.	"You and Tennessee"	3:08
8.	"Another Song to Sing"	2:00
9.	"The Flint Arrowhead"	2:56
10.	"Cisco Clifton's Filling Station"	2:42
11.	"Shrimpin' Sailin'"	3:06
12.	"From Sea to Shining Sea (Finale)"	0:54
Total length:		31:54

Personnel

• Johnny Cash – vocals, guitar
• Carl Perkins, Luther Perkins – guitar
• Bob Johnson – guitar, banjo, dobro
• Norman Blake – dobro
• Marshall Grant – bass
• W.S. Holland – drums
• Charlie McCoy – harmonica
• The Carter Family – backing vocals

Additional personnel

• Produced by: Don Law
• Engineering: Charlie Bragg and Jerry Watson
• Cover photo: Bob Cato

References

• The Sky I Scrape entry on From Sea to Shining Sea^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

• Maninblack.net Great Johnny Cash Fansite