Recordings by Johnny Cash
Album: Heroes
Label: Columbia FC-40347
Year: 1986
Producer: Chips Moman 
Comment:  This pairing of old friends has quite a few highlights. Cash and Jennings record together the old Tom T Hall classic "Forty Dollars and Dylan classic "One Too Many Mornings". "Cowgirls" enjoyed some chart popularity and rose to #35.

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 Track Listing (Click to hear sample)

 

  1. "Folks Out on the Road" (Frank J. Myers, Eddy Raven) – 2:47
  2. "I'm Never Gonna Roam Again" (Rodney Crowell) – 2:56
  3. "American by Birth" (Roger Alan Wade) – 2:33
  4. "Field of Diamonds" (Cash, Jack Routh) – 2:37
  5. "Heroes" (Bobby Emmons, Chips Moman) – 4:16
  6. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (Crowell) – 3:03
  7. "Love Is the Way" (Kris Kristofferson) – 2:31
  8. "Ballad of Forty Dollars" (Tom T. Hall) – 3:11
  9. "I'll Always Love You (in My Own Crazy Way)" (Frank Miller, Troy Seals, Brian Setzer) – 3:58
  10. "One Too Many Mornings" (Bob Dylan) – 2:38

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Liner Notes

I know some day we will all see

A world at peace and tranquility

When men will find the time again

To voice a praise to God-and then

Man's right for life and liberty

Will never cease

And the whole world will enjoy

An ever lasting peace

-Lash LaRue 1986

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Personnel

 

Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar

Waylon Jennings - Vocals, Guitar

Rick Yancey, Danny Hogan - Background Vocals

Al Casey, J.R. Cobb, Jerry Shook, Reggie Young - Guitar

Marty Stuart - Guitar, Mandolin

Ralph Mooney - Steel Guitar

Larry Butler, Bobby Emmons, Bobby Wood - Keyboards

Gene Chrisman - Drums

Jimmy Tittle - Bass

Mike Leech - Bass, Arranger

The A-Strings - Strings

Ace Cannon, Dennis Good, Wayne Jackson - Horn

Mickey Raphael - Harp

 Additional personnel

  • Chips Moman - Producer, Engineer
  • David Cherry - Engineer
  • Steve Hoffman - Mastering
  • Bill Johnson - Art Director
  • Mike Ragogna - Reissue Director
  • Murray Brenman - Reissue Design
  • Kevin Gray - CD Preparation
 

 

Recorded:

December 4, 1984 - May 23, 1985

 

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1986 "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" Country Singles 35

 

 

Info

Heroes is an album by country singers Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, released on Columbia Records in 1986 (see 1986 in music). Although the two musicians had collaborated several times before - most notably in 1985 as part of The Highwaymen, along with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson - this was the duo's first and only full-length album. Heroes was also Cash's last original release on Columbia, with which he parted ways soon after the record's release. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" charted as a single, reaching No. 35 on the country charts. "Field of Diamonds" was recorded by Cash fourteen years later for American III: Solitary Man (2000). The last track, "One Too Many Mornings" is a song written by Bob Dylan for his album The Times They Are a-Changin', and had been recorded, but deemed unusable, by Cash and Dylan in 1969 during the sessions for Nashville Skyline.

Re-Release Info

This album has not been re-released

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Lyrics

 

Folks Out On The Road

I'm Never Gonna Roam Again

American By Birth

Field Of Diamonds

Heroes

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

Love Is The Why

The Ballad of Forty Dollars

I'll Always Love You In My Own Crazy Way

One Too Many Mornings

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