Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town

Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town
Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town
Studio album by Johnny Cash
Released	April 13, 1987
Studio	Cowboy Arms (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre	Country rock; rockabilly;
Length	32:37
Label	Mercury
Producer	Jack Clement
Johnny Cash chronology
Singles from Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town
	"The Night Hank Williams Came to Town"; Released: March 1987; "Sixteen Tons"; Released: June 1987; "Let Him Roll"; Released: September 1987; "W. Lee O'Daniel (and the Light Crust Dough Boys)"; Released: November 1987;

Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town is the 73rd album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1987, and his first for Mercury Records. It was re-released in 2003, paired with Boom Chicka Boom on a single CD. "Sixteen Tons" was previously a hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford, "The Big Light" is an Elvis Costello song from his album King of America, released the previous year and "Let Him Roll" is from Guy Clark's debut, Old No. 1. The album reached #36 on the country charts, while the only released single, "The Night Hank Williams Came to Town", peaked at #43.^[2]

"Ballad of Barbara" is a rerecording of a track that had been a hit single for Cash in the early 1970s. A number of tracks left over from the album's recording sessions would later surface on Cash's final Mercury album, The Mystery of Life, released in 1991.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Robert Christgau	(B+) link

^ "Johnny Cash is Coming to Town - Johnny Cash | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
^ C. Eric Banister -Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black 1617136085 2014 "“Sixteen Tons,” written by Merle Travis, fits, as one would expect, like a coal miner's glove, while “Letters from Home,” by Jack Wesley Routh and John Charles Crowley, finds Cash in a sentimental mood."

[1] "Johnny Cash is Coming to Town - Johnny Cash | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.

[2] C. Eric Banister -Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black 1617136085 2014 "“Sixteen Tons,” written by Merle Travis, fits, as one would expect, like a coal miner's glove, while “Letters from Home,” by Jack Wesley Routh and John Charles Crowley, finds Cash in a sentimental mood."

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