Educating the ignorant - Cash and Waits

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A buddy of mine from work asked me about my music picks today. He's a nice guy, mostly a top 40 listener, heard a song I was playing in the truck and asked about it. I ended up promising to make him 2 'best of' CDs, Johnny Cash and Tom Waits.

Needless to say I am taking this kind of seriously as I was very happy to hear this guy interested in some decent music. Let me know what's missing from my first draft of a playlist for each.

Johnny Cash:
Folsom Prison Blues (live, San Quentin)
Boy Named Sue (live, San Quentin)
Daddy Sang Bass (live, San Quentin)
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Understand Your Man
Cry, Cry, Cry
Ring of Fire
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
I Walk the Line
Ghost Riders in the Sky


Tom Waits:
Cold Cold Ground
Jockey Full of Bourbon
Tom Traubert's Blues
Get Behind the Mule
Cold Water
Come on Up to the House
Ol' 55
The Piano Has Been Drinking
Better Off Without a Wife (live)


Thanks
NT

[istewart]

Sounds like he'd probably like the "Hurt" cover too, although that's just based on what you say his taste is.

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Yeah I haven't even added anything off the American recordings yet, thinking 'Hurt,' 'Hung My Head' and 'Bird on a Wire' if there's time.

NT

[bdk3clash]

Are you just going for 1960s stuff from Cash? Some of the more recent stuff is really good, especially the "Unearthed" box set. I get pretty choked up listening to "Redemption Song" with him and Joe Strummer.

A really cool thing would be to thematically alternate Johnny Cash songs with Tom Waits songs, but that's probably a bit too mix-tape nerdy for a (potential) casual fan.

[mason55]

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Yeah I haven't even added anything off the American recordings yet, thinking 'Hurt,' 'Hung My Head' and 'Bird on a Wire' if there's time.

NT

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Hung My Head is the pinnacle of lyrical storytelling. That song makes me cry just thinking about it.

[mason55]

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but that's probably a bit too mix-tape nerdy for a (potential) casual fan.

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I think we need a mixtape forum on here. I'm a complete mixtape nerd.

[wacki]

Cash
25 minutes to go
When the man comes around
Hung my head (I think that's the title)

Don't know Tom Waits..... yet.

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Yeah, Unearthed is really awesome. I was trying to mostly give him the classic Cash since that's what I was listening to when he asked about it, but slip in a few others from the later recordings as well. Redemption Song is a controversial pick though, I happen to love it also, some people think it's over the top.

I agree with whoever said a mixtape forum might be fun. Although I am not into the typical music that most mixtapers like, I have always enjoyed doing this.

NT

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A buddy of mine from work asked me about my music picks today. He's a nice guy, mostly a top 40 listener, heard a song I was playing in the truck and asked about it. I ended up promising to make him 2 'best of' CDs, Johnny Cash and Tom Waits.

Needless to say I am taking this kind of seriously as I was very happy to hear this guy interested in some decent music. Let me know what's missing from my first draft of a playlist for each.

Johnny Cash:
Folsom Prison Blues (live, San Quentin)
Boy Named Sue (live, San Quentin)
Daddy Sang Bass (live, San Quentin)
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Understand Your Man
Cry, Cry, Cry
Ring of Fire
The Ballad of Ira Hayes
I Walk the Line
Ghost Riders in the Sky


Tom Waits:
Cold Cold Ground
Jockey Full of Bourbon
Tom Traubert's Blues
Get Behind the Mule
Cold Water
Come on Up to the House
Ol' 55
The Piano Has Been Drinking
Better Off Without a Wife (live)


Thanks
NT

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Waits--

Small Change
Putnam County
Invitation to the Blues
pick something else off of Nighthawks--I forget the track names.

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[chaas4747]

hurt and you are good NT.

[wuwei]

I'd add San Diego Serenade for Waits.

[knifeandfork]

jitterbug boy
i wish was in new orleans
i dont wanna grow up

i dunno if these are the titles to the songs but they are some of my favorites. Tom waits is th ebiznomb, i like your picks. make me one too:)

[astroglide]

i really love the cash american cds

[incognito]

You absolutely have to include Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) on the best of Tom Waits CD. Also, it should close with Frank's Wild Years. Never could stand that dog.

Good choices otherwise.

[ClassicBob]

Don't know much Cash, but here is some of my favorite Waits...

off his most recent album, "Make it Rain"

others...
"House Where Nobody Lives"
"I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You"
"Fumblin' with the Blues"
"Alice"
"Flower's Grave"

[Victor]

man in black is most missing at this point.

[BreakEvenPlayer]

Cash - "Highway Patrolman"

That's the last track on his Best of CD, and I believe it is a Springsteen cover, but either way an incredible song.

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Cash - "Highway Patrolman"

That's the last track on his Best of CD, and I believe it is a Springsteen cover, but either way an incredible song.

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Yeah--the original is on Nebraska. There are actually two versions on the album.

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[jesusarenque]

Johnny Cash--Sam Hall

By the way, damn your eyes.

[beta1607]

Waits - Big in Japan

[fimbulwinter]

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[Rushmore]

I agree with all of your choices, but would definitely add the following:

Hang On St. Christopher
Whistlin' Past The Graveyard
Clap Hands
House Where Nobody Lives

This friend of your has no idea how excited he should be.

[The Gift Of Gab]

From Swordfishtrombones: Soldier's Things, Shore Leave, and the title track.

[John Cole]

Soundtrack to One From the Heart.