"The Last Time" | ||||
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Single by Johnny Cash | ||||
from the album Rockabilly Blues | ||||
B-side | "Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)" | |||
Released | 1980[1] | |||
Genre | Country, outlaw country, urban cowboy | |||
Label | Columbia 11-11399 | |||
Songwriter(s) | Kris Kristofferson | |||
Producer(s) | Earl Poole Ball[2] | |||
Johnny Cash singles chronology | ||||
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Audio | ||||
"The Last Time" on YouTube |
"The Last Time" is a song written by Kris Kristofferson and recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1980 album Rockabilly Blues.
Released in 1980 as a single (Columbia 11-11399, with "Rockabilly Blues (Texas 1955)" on the B-side) from that album,[2][3][4] the song reached number 85 on U.S. Billboard's country chart for the week of December 6.[5][6]
"The Last Time" was the first Kris Kristofferson Cash had recorded in six years. The way his voice slips into it, like a body into a comfortable chair, suggests he shouldn't have waited so long. (In fact, a few years prior, the two had discussed recording an album together, where Cash would sing Kristofferson songs, and Kristofferson Cash's, but the album never came to be.)
— C. Eric Banister. Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black[7]
Kristofferson also recorded the song himself, his version appears on the 1981 album To the Bone.
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