Heroes (Cash and Jennings album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Heroes
Type = Album
Artist = Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings


Released = June 1986
Recorded = December 4, 1984 - May 23, 1985
Genre = Country
Length = 30:30
Label = Columbia
Producer = Chips Moman
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:cge997y7krdt link]
Chronology = Johnny Cash
Last album = "Believe in Him"
(1986)
This album = "Heroes"
(1986)
Next album = "Class of '55"
(1986)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Waylon Jennings
Type = studio
Last album = "Will the Wolf Survive"
(1986)
This album = "Heroes"
(1986)
Next album = "The Best of Waylon"
(1986)

"Heroes" is an album by country singers Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, released on Columbia Records in 1986 (see 1986 in music). Although the two musicians had collaborated several times before - most notably in 1985 as part of The Highwaymen, along with Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson - this was the duo's first and only full-length album. "Heroes" was also Cash's last original release on Columbia, with which he parted ways soon after the record's release. "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" charted as a single, reaching No. 35 on the country charts. "Field of Diamonds" was recorded by Cash fourteen years later for "" (2000). The last track, "One Too Many Mornings" is a song written by Bob Dylan for his album "The Times They Are a-Changin'", and had been recorded, but deemed unusable, by Cash and Dylan in 1969 during the sessions for "Nashville Skyline".

Track listing

# "Folks Out on the Road" (Frank J. Myers, Eddy Raven) – 2:47
# "I'm Never Gonna Roam Again" (Rodney Crowell) – 2:56
# "American by Birth" (Roger Alan Wade) – 2:33
# "Field of Diamonds" (Cash, Jack Routh) – 2:37
# "Heroes" (Bobby Emmons, Chips Moman) – 4:16
# "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (Crowell) – 3:03
# "Love Is the Way" (Kris Kristofferson) – 2:31
# "Ballad of Forty Dollars" (Tom T. Hall) – 3:11
# "I'll Always Love You (in My Own Crazy Way)" (Frank Miller, Troy Seals, Brian Setzer) – 3:58
# "One Too Many Mornings" (Bob Dylan) – 2:38

Personnel

* Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar
* Waylon Jennings - Vocals, Guitar
* Rick Yancey, Danny Hogan - Background Vocals
* Al Casey, J.R. Cobb, Jerry Shook, Reggie Young - Guitar
* Marty Stuart - Guitar, Mandolin
* Ralph Mooney - Steel Guitar
* Larry Butler, Bobby Emmons, Bobby Wood - Keyboards
* Gene Chrisman - Drums
* Jimmy Tittle - Bass
* Mike Leech - Bass, Arranger
* The A-Strings - Strings
* Ace Cannon, Dennis Good, Wayne Jackson - Horn
* Mickey Raphael - Harp

Additional personnel

* Chips Moman - Producer, Engineer
* David Cherry - Engineer
* Steve Hoffman - Mastering
* Bill Johnson - Art Director
* Mike Ragogna - Reissue Director
* Murray Brenman - Reissue Design
* Kevin Gray - CD Preparation

Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

External links

* [http://www.luma-electronic.cz/lp/c/Cash/cash2.htm Luma Electronic's Johnny Cash discography listing]