VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson

VH1 Storytellers

Live album by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson

Released

June 9, 1998

Recorded

1997-1998

Genre

Country

Label

American Recordings / Sony

Producer

Rick Rubin

Johnny Cash chronology

Unchained
(1996)

VH1 Storytellers
(1998)

The Man In Black - His Greatest Hits
(1999)

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VH1 Storytellers is the 83rd overall album and is a live album by Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music) on American Recordings. The album was produced by Rick Rubin and was the third record released as part of Cash's nine-year period of collaboration with Rubin. It is not, however, counted as part of the American Recordings series, which is reserved for Cash's studio work with Rubin.

Cash and Nelson take turns on songs associated with each respective artist, usually with the other performing harmony or occasionally verses. The opening track is a duet with Cash and Nelson, and some tracks feature guitar solos by Nelson. Between tracks, Cash and Nelson joke with each other and discuss the songs and their origins.

This was the final album of new performances released by Cash prior to the onset of health problems that forced him to curtail live concerts also led to changes in the timbre of his voice that were noticeable from American III: Solitary Man (his next album release of new recordings issued in 2000) onwards. It was also Cash's final purpose-recorded live album to be released during his lifetime, though an archival recording, Johnny Cash at Madison Square Garden, recorded in 1969, would be issued a year before his death.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky"	Stan Jones	6:13
2.	"Worried Man"	Cash, June Carter Cash	3:48
3.	"Family Bible"	Walt Breeland/Paul Buskirk/Claude Gray	3:20
4.	"Don't Take Your Guns to Town"	Cash	4:42
5.	"Funny How Time Slips Away"	Willie Nelson	3:59
6.	"Flesh and Blood"	Cash	2:42
7.	"Crazy"	Nelson	2:23
8.	"Unchained"	Jude Johnstone	2:43
9.	"Night Life"	Breeland/Buskirk/Nelson	3:43
10.	"Drive On"	Cash	2:23
11.	"Me and Paul"	Nelson	3:11
12.	"I Still Miss Someone"	Cash, Roy Cash Jr.	3:13
13.	"Always on My Mind"	Johnny Christopher/Mark James/Wayne Carson Thompson	4:05
14.	"Folsom Prison Blues"	Cash	3:40
15.	"On the Road Again"	Nelson	1:32

Personnel

Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar, Producer
Willie Nelson - Vocals, Guitar

Additional personnel

Rick Rubin - Producer, Mixing
Sean Murphy - Producer
Bill Flanagan - Executive Producer
Michael Simon - Director
Koji Egawa - Assistant Engineer, Mixing Assistant
Randy Ezratty, Al Schmitt - Mixing
Paul Cohen - House Mix
Stephen Marcussen - Mastering
David Coleman - Art Direction, Artwork, Design
Wayne Wilkins - Art Direction, Artwork
Marc Bryan-Brown - Photography
Bruce Gillmer - Project Supervisor
Wayne Isaak - Music Executive
Sean Kelly - Coordination

Chart performance

Chart (1998)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	25
U.S. Billboard 200	56

Johnny Cash

Studio albums	With His Hot and Blue Guitar Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous The Fabulous Johnny Cash Greatest! Songs of Our Soil Sings Hank Williams Now, There Was a Song! Now Here's Johnny Cash The Sound of Johnny Cash All Aboard the Blue Train Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash The Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash I Walk the Line Orange Blossom Special Everybody Loves a Nut Happiness Is You Old Golden Throat More of Old Golden Throat Hello, I'm Johnny Cash The World of Johnny Cash Man in Black A Thing Called Love International Superstar Any Old Wind That Blows Ragged Old Flag The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me John R. Cash Look at Them Beans One Piece at a Time The Last Gunfighter Ballad I Would Like to See You Again Gone Girl Silver Rockabilly Blues The Baron The Adventures of Johnny Cash Johnny 99 Rainbow Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series Water from the Wells of Home Boom Chicka Boom The Mystery of Life American Recordings Unchained American III: Solitary Man American IV: The Man Comes Around Personal File American V: A Hundred Highways American VI: Ain't No Grave Out Among the Stars

Concept albums	Ride This Train Blood, Sweat and Tears Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian Sings the Ballads of the True West From Sea to Shining Sea America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song The Johnny Cash Children's Album The Rambler

Gospel albums	Hymns by Johnny Cash Hymns from the Heart The Holy Land The Gospel Road (film soundtrack) Sings Precious Memories A Believer Sings the Truth Believe in Him Return to the Promised Land (video soundtrack) My Mother's Hymn Book

Christmas albums	The Christmas Spirit The Johnny Cash Family Christmas Classic Christmas Johnny Cash Country Christmas

Collaborations	The Lure of the Grand Canyon Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter Johnny Cash and His Woman The Legend of Jesse James The Survivors Live Highwayman Class of '55 Heroes Highwayman 2 The Road Goes on Forever VH1 Storytellers

Live albums	At Folsom Prison At San Quentin The Johnny Cash Show På Österåker Strawberry Cake Koncert v Praze (In Prague–Live) At Madison Square Garden A Concert Behind Prison Walls

Non-Gospel Soundtracks	I Walk the Line Little Fauss and Big Halsy

Compilations	Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 Heart of Cash Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Sunday Morning Coming Down Five Feet High and Rising Destination Victoria Station Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 The Unissued Johnny Cash Johnny & June Tall Man Encore Biggest Hits The Man in Black 1954–1958 The Man in Black 1959–1962 Come Along and Ride This Train The Essential Johnny Cash (1992) Wanted Man The Man in Black 1963–1969 The Man in Black – His Greatest Hits 16 Biggest Hits Love, God, Murder The Essential Johnny Cash (2002) Unearthed The Legend The Legend of Johnny Cash Johnny Cash: Patriot 16 Biggest Hits: Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II The Complete Columbia Album Collection

Songs	"25 Minutes to Go" "Seasons of My Heart" "Any Old Wind That Blows" "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" "Big River" "Blistered" "A Boy Named Sue" "Busted" "Cat's in the Cradle" "Cocaine Blues" "Cry! Cry! Cry!" "Daddy Sang Bass" "Dark as a Dungeon" "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" "Engine 143" "Flesh and Blood" "The Folk Singer" "Folsom Prison Blues" "Forty Shades of Green" "Get Rhythm" "Goodnight, Irene" "Green, Green Grass of Home" "Greystone Chapel" "Guess Things Happen That Way" "Hey, Porter" "Home of the Blues" "Hurt" "I Couldn't Keep from Crying" "I Love You Because" "I Still Miss Someone" "I Walk the Line" "If I Had a Hammer" "If I Were a Carpenter" "In My Life" "In the Jailhouse Now" "It Ain't Me Babe" "Jackson" "Kate" "The Man Comes Around" "Man in Black" "The Matador" "Oh Lonesome Me" "One Piece at a Time" "Oney" "Orange Blossom Special" "The One on the Right Is on the Left" "Remember the Alamo" "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" "Ring of Fire" "Rock Island Line" "So Doggone Lonesome" "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" "Tennessee Flat Top Box" "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" "A Thing Called Love" "Understand Your Man" "What Is Truth" "What'd I Say"

Television	The Johnny Cash Show

Family	June Carter Cash John Carter Cash Rosanne Cash Carlene Carter Vivian Liberto Tommy Cash Carter Family

Related	Albums discography Singles discography Sun Records discography The Highwaymen Carter Family Fold Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words Cash: The Autobiography Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music Walk the Line We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash Ring of Fire (2013 film) Ring of Fire (musical) My Father and the Man in Black Dyess, Arkansas The Sound Behind Johnny Cash

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Willie Nelson

Studio albums

1960s	...And Then I Wrote Here's Willie Nelson Country Willie – His Own Songs Country Favorites-Willie Nelson Style Make Way for Willie Nelson The Party's Over Texas in My Soul Good Times My Own Peculiar Way

1970s	Both Sides Now Laying My Burdens Down Willie Nelson and Family Yesterday's Wine The Words Don't Fit the Picture The Willie Way Shotgun Willie Phases and Stages Red Headed Stranger The Sound in Your Mind The Troublemaker To Lefty from Willie There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight Stardust Sings Kristofferson Pretty Paper The Electric Horseman

1980s	Honeysuckle Rose Family Bible Somewhere Over the Rainbow Always On My Mind Tougher Than Leather Without a Song City of New Orleans Angel Eyes Me & Paul Partners The Promiseland Island in the Sea What a Wonderful World A Horse Called Music

1990s	Born for Trouble Any Old Arms Won't Do The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? Across the Borderline Moonlight Becomes You Healing Hands of Time Six Hours at Pedernales Just One Love Augusta Spirit How Great Thou Art Teatro Night and Day

2000s	Tales Out of Luck (Me and the Drummer) Milk Cow Blues Rainbow Connection The Great Divide Nacogdoches It Always Will Be Countryman You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Songbird Moment of Forever American Classic

2010s	Country Music Remember Me, Vol. 1 Heroes Let's Face the Music and Dance To All the Girls... Band of Brothers December Day Django & Jimmie Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price

Live albums

Compilations

Columbus Stockade Blues
Country Winners
The Best of Willie Nelson
Spotlight on Willie Nelson
Country Willie
What Can You Do to Me Now
The Longhorn Jamboree Presents: Willie Nelson & His Friends
Willie – Before His Time
Face of a Fighter
Sweet Memories
Always
Willie Nelson: His Very Best
Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)
Minstrel Man
Everybody's Talkin
The Best of Willie Nelson
20 of the Best
Collectors Series
Half Nelson
Love Songs
Yours Always
Super Hits
Super Hits, Volume 2
Revolutions of Time...The Journey 1975/1993
Willie Standard Time
16 Biggest Hits
Good Ol' Country Singin'
All the Songs I've Loved Before: 40 Unforgettable Songs
Crazy: The Demo Sessions
The Essential Willie Nelson
Songs
The Complete Atlantic Sessions
Natural Renegade: Opus Collection
16 Biggest Hits, Volume II
One Hell of a Ride
Playlist: The Very Best of Willie Nelson
Legend: The Best of Willie Nelson
Naked Willie
Lost Highway
The Classic Christmas Album
Country: Willie Nelson

Books

Willie: An Autobiography
The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes
Farm Aid: A Song for America
The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart
On The Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and The Future of the Family Farm
A Tale Out of Luck
Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road
It's a Long Story: My Life
Pretty Paper

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