Live at Town Hall Party 1959

Recorded at the Town Hall Party television show in Los Angeles on August 8, 1959, this acts as a companion piece to Sundazed's other LP taken from a Town Hall Party broadcast, Live at Town Hall Party 1958 (recorded in November 1958). Like its predecessor, this is a good set of Cash accompanied by the Tennessee Two (Luther Perkins on guitar and Marshall Grant on bass), this time around adding drummer Mike Fury (then playing in Bob Luman's band). The set -- which is significantly different in song selection than the 1958 live LP, though there's some overlap -- includes some of his best 1950s hits, like "Guess Things Happen That Way," "The Ways of a Woman in Love," "Big River," "I Walk the Line," "Don't Take Your Guns to Town," and "Folsom Prison Blues." He likes doing his then-new single "I Got Stripes" so much, in fact, that he does it twice. Also played are some more obscure tunes, like the spiritual "I Was There When It Happened" and, most unexpectedly, a parodic cover of Elvis Presle