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Liner Notes Twelve long miserable years have passed since I was introduced to Johnny Cash. Then and there I decided that this long-legged, hungry-looking vacuum-cleaner salesman would be better off selling eggs than selling records. He couldn't tune or even play his worn out, busted, German guitar-but along with guitarist Luther Perkins (no relative of mine, thank God!) and bass player Marshall Grant, a couple of self-made mechanics, he cut his first horrible record. Then you, you unsuspecting record buyers outran motorcycles, even roadrunners, to get to record shops to lay down those mangy dollars for it. And you ain't stopped running yet!!! That's what makes me sick. I hope you're satisfied now that you've made John Cash the biggest damn thing in Country music. And then!!-Poor little Miss-June Carter, a sweet lady who, after many weeks of watching Gash go on stage wearing streaked, spotted, striped and wrinkled shirts and baggy pants, persuaded him to buy himself a suit with the coat and pants the same color. Recently she personally bought him three suits with matching coat and pants. The Tennessee Three and myself insisted that she send him the bill for them. June is affectionately known as "Brindl," and poor little Brindl has had a tough time these last few years. She has fought a battle to tame a man with a wild streak-trying and succeeding most times in eliminating the streak. She has used horrible tactics for doing this, such as cooking ham on a shaky stove while enroute to High Point, N.C., in a beat-up Dodge Motor Home, pressing suits, haircuts, hot biscuits and all. Pickin' up and singing when she got the notion was too much for John and the babies (W. S. Marshall, Luther and me), so old John joined in to protect his ears. The duet didn't come out near so badly as we thought it would. They sang an old song called Jackson, then there was the Long-legged Guitar Pickin' Man and finally this album. Now they're singing together, and though we tried to drown them out, the Tennessee Three and myself, I suppose, damn it, you'll hear them CARRYIN' ON inthis album. -Carl Perkins1967
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Info Johnny Cash has called June Carter-Cash one of the most neglected artists in country music, whose contributions will always be overlooked in the shadow of her husband's own success — his only regret, he says, in having married her. On the couple's 1967 release Carryin' On With Johnny Cash and June Carter — recorded a year before their marriage and while Cash was still officially, unhappily wed to his first wife Vivian — June emerges briefly not merely as a longtime backup singer or opening act, but as an equal and able performer and partner. Indeed, her gritty country voice is one of the album's greatest strengths, providing a nice complement and counter to Cash's famous, unadorned bass. Carryin' On contains the hit single "Jackson," along with "Long-Legged Guitar Pickin' Man," a boisterous, rocking and rolling minor hit featuring Johnny in the lead role and June as his lovably nagging "Big-Mouthed Woman." Other performances include less effective detours into folk-rockish and pseudo-soulful realms: They cut a fine cover of Richard & Mimi Farina's then-popular "Pack Up Your Sorrows" and wade a little awkwardly through Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe," Johnny gracelessly spitting out the "babe" of the title against "Ring of Fire" mariachi horns. Both sides of the record end with versions of Ray Charles classics, "I Got a Woman" and an especially shaky "What'd I Say," which, like "Babe," may prove as endearing to Cash fans as irritating to less-dedicated listeners. While Cash seems a little uncomfortable, or at least out of place, on the Charles numbers, June sounds surprisingly at home and rescues the performances with her soulful, growling vocals. The album's lowest moment, meanwhile, is its second track, "Shantytown," in which syrupy female voices provide sentimental, Hee Haw routine choruses of "I live down in Shantytown/Where the chicken's 20 cents a pound." Despite such moments, though, the album manages to overcome its weaknesses by the strength of the couple's collaboration; Johnny and June, eternally genuine and altogether unembarrassed even in the midst of their worst or most ridiculous arrangements, can perform corny or ill-fitted material with such honesty and conviction that you have almost no choice but to believe and enjoy it. Along with the duo's unforgettable voices, the record's mix of harmonicas, banjo, dobro, and hot electric guitar licks lends a down-home, carefree spirit to the entire effort. This, on some level, is Johnny and June at home, or — as on the cover — kicked back in a grassy field, Carryin' On, and the world is better off for having witnessed the whole thing. Re-Release Info Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter is an album released by country musicians Johnny Cash and June Carter in 1967 (see 1967 in music), on Columbia Records. The album consists exclusively of duets by Cash and Carter, most famously "Jackson", though "Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man" was also released as a single. Cash and Carter married seven months after the album was released, and "Jackson" remains their most well-known collaboration, with the couple performing it at numerous venues throughout the years. The album was re-issued on March 19, 2002 (see 2002 in music) through Legacy Recordings, with two additional tracks. ***
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