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In Stores November 8th
Via Newly Revamped
Time Life Retail Music Division

Fairfax, VA The cherished recordings that country music legend Johnny Cash made at the historic Memphis Sun Studios in the mid-1950s have been meticulously restored to their original versions and compiled into a 61 song box set, Johnny Cash The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-1958, due in stores on November 8th. The three-disc set chronicles the singer s early days and the birth of what became his unmistakable performance style. Timed to reach stores just as a new biopic, Walk The Line, hits movie theaters nationwide
(starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon), The Complete Sun
Recordings is the first elaborate box set from the newly revamped retail music division of Time Life.

Sun Studios was home to innovative producer Sam Phillips, whose staunch reputation for refusing to churn out assembly line sounding records like so many Nashville studios were doing at that time drew Cash in. Fresh from his sessions with a new singer named Elvis Presley, Phillips boldly decided to make Cash s voice the most important instrument on his songs; deep, warm, and larger than life. It was within the Sun Studios walls that the Man In Black was born.

With Nashville s slick country sound dominating the music charts, the Sun recordings were shocking in their simple purity, mistakes and all. It was Phillips who recognized the true genius of Johnny Cash and dared to let the singer be himself, embracing the powerful barebones voice that resonated with honesty. Cry, Cry, Cry was the first song to break, cracking the country charts for a week in 1955, but it was 1956 s I Walk the Line that would propel him into musical history.

The collection includes original Cash/Sun gems Folsom Prison Blues, Give My Love to Rose, Cry, Cry, Cry and I Walk The Line set alongside rockabilly classics such as I Love You Because (Leon Payne), Oh Lonesome Me (Don Gibson), I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow (Hank Williams), and Blue Train (Billy Smith). In his final days at Sun, Cash also recorded songs written by others, including Gene Autry ( Goodbye Little Darlin ), Roy Orbison ( You Tell Me ), and several by Hank Williams ( You Win Again, Cold Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin , I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow,
I Can t Help It ).

Johnny Cash The Complete Sun Recordings 1955-1958 is the first major
release from the recently revamped retail music division within Time Life Time Life will continue to carefully craft and deliver to the consumer genre defining compilations that appeal to collectors and the everyday music lover, says Mike Jason, the newly appointed Senior Vice President of Audio & Video Retail at Time Life. However Mike adds, I very much look forward to combining the powerful Time Life brand with high quality multi-disc sets
as well as creating audio and video offerings in some newer genres. The Cash project is the first of hopefully many such offerings.

About Time Life Inc.

Headquartered in Fairfax VA, Time Life Inc. was founded in 1961 as one of the world s largest direct marketers of audio and video products on CD s, DVD s and VHS. The company sells more than 13 million units of music, videos and other products a year throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and is the largest advertiser of music products in Germany, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Time-Life sets the standard in the direct response industry with its trusted brand and pioneering new direct marketing techniques via phone. Time-Life also sells over the Internet and through retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target, to traditional CD outlets. Time Life is a registered trademark of Time Warner Inc. used under license by Direct Holdings Americas Inc., which is not affiliated with Time Warner Inc.