Rockabilly Blues is an album by Americancountry singerJohnny Cash, released onColumbia Records in 1980. Highlights include "Cold Lonesome Morning," which had some minor chart success (No. 53 in the country charts), "Without Love," by his son-in-law,Nick Lowe, and a cover of the witty "The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over." The first two of the aforementioned songs were the only singles from the album, though "Without Love" hardly enjoyed any chart success, peaking at No. 78. "The Twentieth Century is Almost Over" was re-recorded five years later by Cash andWaylon Jennings,Willie Nelson andKris Kristofferson, collectively known asThe Highwaymen, on their first album entitledHighwayman, though it was, in essence, aduet with Nelson.
Robert Christgau deemedRockabilly Blues "an honorable country album with some pretty good songs on it."[3]The Globe and Mail concluded that the album "has more to do with traditional country music than it does hot country-rock."[4]The Boston Globe opined that "best of all is Cash's long awaited discovery of John Prine ('The 20th Century Is Almost Over')."[5]
"It Ain't Nothing New Babe" and "One Way Rider" produced byJack Clement
Engineers: Gene Eichelberger at Quadrafonic Studio, Nashville, TN; Curt Allen at JMI Recording Studio, Nashville, TN;Dave Edmunds at U.K. Pro Studio, London, England
Back-up Engineers: Willie Pevear, Barbara Cline at Quadraphonic Studio, Nashville TN
Recorded at Quadraphonic Studio, JMI Recording Studio, U.K. Pro Studio
