I Walk the Line

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Written by: Cash
Produced by: Sam Phillips
Released: Aug. '56 on Sun
Charts: 22 weeks
Top spot: No. 17

Cash began work on this track while he was in Germany with the Air Force, years before he would ever enter a studio. He returned to it after he hit with "Folsom Prison Blues," only to find that the tape he had made had gotten mangled. But Cash liked the strange sound and added a click-clack rhythm by winding a piece of wax paper through his guitar strings. "It was different than anything else you had ever heard," Bob Dylan told ROLLING STONE. "A voice from the middle of the earth."

Appears on: The Complete Original Sun Singles (Varese Sarabande)

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