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Johnny Cash

I Walk the Line

1956 · via Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash wrote “I Walk the Line” and put out the earliest release of it on file, in 1956. Also recorded by The Everly Brothers (released 1963), Phish (released 1992) and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (released 2008), among 688 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line
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Everybody knows how Cash sings it, but Phish recorded it in 1992, which tells you how far a song built that plainly can travel. Play his, then theirs, and listen for what refuses to change.

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Credited writer: Johnny Cash.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1956.

Other recordings on file · first release year

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