Bootleg, Vol I: Personal File

About

Personal File is a posthumous album by American music icon Johnny Cash. The two CD set was released posthumously on May 23, 2006, by Legacy Recordings. Personal File contains 49 unreleased tracks on two CDs recorded between 1973 and 1982. Given that all tracks on the album were previously unreleased, Personal File is considered both a posthumous album and a compilation. Recovered from a vault of material housed at the House of Cash studios, Personal File includes "Tin Pan Alley hits, traditional folk and gospel tunes, new originals and favorite covers" – by Carter Family, Louvin Brothers, Johnny Horton, John Prine, Rodney Crowell, and Carlene Carter. The album was compiled and produced by Gregg Geller with liner notes by Greil Marcus. On most of the tracks, Cash performs alone, accompanying himself on guitar, and on many tracks Cash prefaces the song with remarks about its history and what it means to him.

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Tracklist

Disc 1

1. 1The Letter Edged in Black2:39
2. 2There’s a Mother Always Waiting at Home4:22
3. 3The Engineer’s Dying Child2:08
4. 4My Mother Was a Lady3:36
5. 5The Winding Stream2:38
6. 6Far Away Places2:24
7. 7Galway Bay1:46
8. 8When I Stop Dreaming3:12
9. 9Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes3:33
10. 10I’ll Take You Home Again Kathleen2:28
11. 11Missouri Waltz2:01
12. 12Louisiana Man3:29
13. 13Paradise3:04
14. 14I Don’t Believe You Wanted to Leave2:56
15. 15Jim, I Wore a Tie Today2:48
16. 16Saginaw, Michigan2:29
17. 17When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below)2:16
18. 18Girl in Saskatoon2:17
19. 19The Cremation of Sam McGee5:34
20. 20Tiger Whitehead4:45
21. 21It’s All Over2:50
22. 22A Fast Song2:33
23. 23Virgie2:58
24. 24I Wanted So2:42
25. 25It Takes One to Know Me3:15

Disc 2

1. 1Seal It in My Heart and Mind1:51
2. 2Wildwood in the Pines2:42
3. 3Who at My Door Is Standing2:32
4. 4Have Thine Own Way Lord3:44
5. 5Lights of Magdala2:27
6. 6If Jesus Ever Loved a Woman2:40
7. 7The Lily of the Valley1:45
8. 8Have a Drink of Water3:37
9. 9The Way Worn Traveler2:03
10. 10Look Unto the East2:13
11. 11Matthew 24 (Is Knocking at the Door)1:58
12. 12The House Is Falling Down2:52
13. 13One of These Days I’m Gonna Sit Down and Talk to Paul3:21
14. 14What on Earth (Will You Do for Heaven’s Sake)2:45
15. 15My Children Walk in Truth2:50
16. 16No Earthly Good1:52
17. 17Sanctified2:34
18. 18Lord, Lord, Lord2:20
19. 19What Is Man2:24
20. 20Over the Next Hill (We’ll Be Home)2:56
21. 21A Half a Mile a Day4:25
22. 22Farther Along2:58
23. 23Life’s Railway to Heaven2:14
24. 24In the Sweet Bye and Bye2:51

Tracklist from the original release · Data: MusicBrainz