Johnny Cash • AMERICAN RECORDINGS, Vol. 1 • 1994 orig U.S. 1st press • SEALED

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Johnny Cash

•  American Recordings  •

(a.k.a. American Recordings Vol. 1, the first album in the Johnny Cash “American Recordings” series)

Original 1994 U.S. first pressing — Still Sealed

American Recordings, Catalog Number: 9 45520-1 american [sic] 

produced by Rick Rubin

This is the original 1994 U.S. first pressing.  There have been several reissues of unknown origin from Europe over the years, and many of them have been passed off as “original” when they were not.  Making things worse, most Sellers don’t distinguish an original from any of the later reissues.

Several characteristics distinguish an original first pressing, the two that are easiest to check quickly on a sealed LP are the back side shrink wrap and the UPC barcode, also on the back.  The shrink-wrap on original U.S. pressings has an overlap running vertically up the back cover, slightly to the right of center.  I have not seen this characteristic on any other pressings.  The barcode is also unique, in that it is small and somewhat narrow compared to other releases.  If the album was open we could also examine the lyric insert which has unique features on the first pressing, and the information in the deadwax run-out grooves is always definitive.

The album offered here is an ORIGINAL U.S. first pressing.  It is THIS record, the 1994 original U.S. pressing, that Stereophile Magazine included in their “Records to Die For” list for 1995:

“I heard a knock at the door. I opened it, and in front of me stood a tall, heavily weathered man with a black Martin strapped across his back. He said he needed a place to rest, and had been attracted to my apartment by a Hank Williams song wafting through my open bedroom window. I invited him in, and watched and listened as the man in black tuned his guitar and began to sing.

The rhythmic thuck-thuck of the stylus in the lead-out grooves of the first side of American Recordings rudely awakened me. The recording's honesty had lulled me into that rare state of listening where the line between illusion and reality no longer exists. This album is an intimate recital of American popular music performed by one of its greatest, most persistent, and loyal advocates.” -- review by Guy Lemcoe, Google search “1995 Records to Die For page 9”. 

It was this review that led me to search out this album and listen to it for the first time, around 1998.  It had the same effect on me as it did on the reviewer, and I acquired several copies over the years, whenever I found one.  This is my LAST sealed copy.  This is a GREAT record album, every song from start to finish.  The kind of album you want to listen to all the way through.

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Cover Condition (sealed):

(Near Mint) No ring-wear, no seam splits, shrink-wrap sealed all the way around, a beautiful example of this nearly 20 year old original first pressing. 

Record LP Condition:

Sealed, factory new.

It’s Johnny Cash, on the first and best of the “American Recordings” albums, an American classic in every way.

Hear this great album at the best it will ever sound — the original, authentic 1994 first U.S. pressing.

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Track Listing:

Side One: 

1. Delia’s Gone

2. Let the Train Blow the Whistle

3. The Beast in Me

4. Drive On

5. Why Me Lord

6. Thirteen

7. Oh, Bury Me Not

Side Two: 

1. Bird on a Wire

2. Tennessee Stud

3. Down There by the Train

4. Redemption 

5.  Like a Soldier

6.  The Man Who Wouldn’t Cry

Packaging:

The sealed album will be placed inside another clear poly outer protective album cover, then sandwiched between two cardboard stiffener pads (cut larger than album-size) which are then carefully taped together.  The larger cardboard reinforcement pads help to prevent corner dings, and securing the album between two cardboard reinforcement pads also helps to prevent seam splits to the cover of sealed records during transit.  I have used this method for many years to practically eliminate seam splits on sealed LPs. 

The album is then packaged in a thick record LP mailer box with room for more cardboard stiffeners and bubble-wrap, then sealed all around.  I know what it is like to receive poorly packaged records, you will not have that experience with me!

Combined shipping available for multiple purchases to save on shipping costs.

Tracking:

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eBay History of Record LP sales:

14 years on eBay.  Please do check my Seller feedback comments with regard to accurate LP grading, safe packaging and quick shipping.

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