A Believer Sings the Truth

Studio album by Johnny Cash

Released

December 1979

Recorded

January–May 1979

Genre

Gospel

Length

55:39

Label

Cachet / Columbia

Producer

Johnny Cash, Jack Routh, Jack Clement

Johnny Cash chronology

Silver
(1979)

A Believer Sings the Truth
(1979)

Rockabilly Blues
(1980)

A Believer Sings the Truth is a gospel double album and 63rd overall album by American country singer Johnny Cash. The tracks for the double-length album were all recorded in 1979.

Cash was under contract to Columbia Records, but the label was doubtful that a double-album of gospel songs was commercially viable. With the label's blessing, Cash was allowed to release it on his own on the Cachet label and as a radio special with added narration.

His efforts paid off, as the album made it into the Country Top 50, peaking at #43.

In 1982, Columbia reissued the album itself, and in 1984 an edited-down version titled I Believe appeared on Arrival Records (see below).

Prior to 2012 the only CD release of tracks from the album occurred with two tracks appearing in the God portion of the 2004 box set Love, God, Murder (a set compiled by Cash soon before his death in 2003), and two more tracks appeared on 2007's Ultimate Gospel. The complete contents of the album (plus a previously unreleased outtake) made their CD debut as Disk 1 of the 2012 release Bootleg Vol. IV: The Soul of Truth. It is one of only a handful of Columbia-related albums not to be included in the 2012 box set release Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection.

Track listing

Side One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Wings in the Morning"	Johnny Cash	2:43
2.	"Gospel Boogie (A Wonderful Time up There)"	Lee Roy Abernathy	2:40
3.	"Over the Next Hill" (with Anita Carter)	Johnny Cash	2:36
4.	"He's Alive" (with June Carter Cash)	Don Francisco	4:16
5.	"I've Got Jesus in My Soul"	Jo-El Sonnier, Tom Ross	2:42

Side Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"When He Comes" (with Rosanne Cash)	Johnny Cash	3:33
2.	"I Was There When It Happened" (with Marshall Grant)	Jimmie Davis, Fern Jones	2:16
3.	"I'm a Newborn Man" (John Carter Cash)	Johnny Cash, June Carter	1:42
4.	"There Are Strange Things Happening Every Day"	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	3:34
5.	"Children Go Where I Send Thee"	Traditional	2:39

Side Three
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"(I'm Just an) Old Chunk of Coal"	Billy Joe Shaver	2:14
2.	"Lay Me Down in Dixie" (with Cindy Cash)	Jo-El Sonnier, Judy Ball	2:01
3.	"Don't Take Everybody for Your Friend"	Roy Carroll, Sister Rosetta Tharpe	2:25
4.	"You'll Get Yours, I'll Get Mine" (with Rodney Crowell)	Johnny Cash	2:23
5.	"Oh Come Angel Band"	Johnny Cash	2:45

Side Four
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"This Train is Bound for Glory" (with June Carter Cash)	Sister Rosetta Tharpe	3:31
2.	"I'm Gonna Try to Be That Way" (with Jan Howard)	Johnny Cash	2:50
3.	"What on Earth (Will You Do for Heaven's Sake)"	Johnny Cash	2:10
4.	"That's Enough"	Dorothy Love Coates	2:45
5.	"The Greatest Cowboy of Them All" (with Jack Routh)	Johnny Cash	3:54

Charting

Album – Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
December 1979	Country Albums	43

I Believe

I Believe album cover

In 1984, I Believe was released on the Arrival Records label, featuring ten songs from A Believer Sings the Truth and four outtakes from the same sessions. Like its parent album, I Believe has not been released on CD.

Track Listing

Side One
No.	Title	Length
1.	"That's Enough"
2.	"Don't Take Anyone to be Your Friend"
3.	"Jesus in My Soul"
4.	"Newborn Man"
5.	"I'll Have a New Life"
6.	"This Train"
7.	"I Was There When it Happened"

Side Two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Lay Me Down in Dixie"
2.	"Strange Things Happen Every Day"
3.	"You'll Get Yours and I'll Get Mine"
4.	"Didn't it Rain"
5.	"He Touched Me"
6.	"Way Worn Traveler"
7.	"I'm Gonna Try to be That Way"

Johnny Cash

Studio albums	With His Hot and Blue Guitar Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous The Fabulous Johnny Cash Greatest! Songs of Our Soil Sings Hank Williams Now, There Was a Song! Now Here's Johnny Cash The Sound of Johnny Cash All Aboard the Blue Train Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash The Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash I Walk the Line Orange Blossom Special Everybody Loves a Nut Happiness Is You Old Golden Throat More of Old Golden Throat Hello, I'm Johnny Cash The World of Johnny Cash Man in Black A Thing Called Love International Superstar Any Old Wind That Blows Ragged Old Flag The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me John R. Cash Look at Them Beans One Piece at a Time The Last Gunfighter Ballad I Would Like to See You Again Gone Girl Silver Rockabilly Blues The Baron The Adventures of Johnny Cash Johnny 99 Rainbow Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town Classic Cash: Hall of Fame Series Water from the Wells of Home Boom Chicka Boom The Mystery of Life American Recordings Unchained American III: Solitary Man American IV: The Man Comes Around Personal File American V: A Hundred Highways American VI: Ain't No Grave Out Among the Stars

Concept albums	Ride This Train Blood, Sweat and Tears Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian Sings the Ballads of the True West From Sea to Shining Sea America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song The Johnny Cash Children's Album The Rambler

Gospel albums	Hymns by Johnny Cash Hymns from the Heart The Holy Land The Gospel Road (film soundtrack) Sings Precious Memories A Believer Sings the Truth Believe in Him Return to the Promised Land (video soundtrack) My Mother's Hymn Book

Christmas albums	The Christmas Spirit The Johnny Cash Family Christmas Classic Christmas Johnny Cash Country Christmas

Collaborations	The Lure of the Grand Canyon Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter Johnny Cash and His Woman The Legend of Jesse James The Survivors Live Highwayman Class of '55 Heroes Highwayman 2 The Road Goes on Forever VH1 Storytellers

Live albums	At Folsom Prison At San Quentin The Johnny Cash Show På Österåker Strawberry Cake Koncert v Praze (In Prague–Live) At Madison Square Garden A Concert Behind Prison Walls

Non-Gospel Soundtracks	I Walk the Line Little Fauss and Big Halsy

Compilations	Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 Heart of Cash Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 Sunday Morning Coming Down Five Feet High and Rising Destination Victoria Station Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 The Unissued Johnny Cash Johnny & June Tall Man Encore Biggest Hits The Man in Black 1954–1958 The Man in Black 1959–1962 Come Along and Ride This Train The Essential Johnny Cash (1992) Wanted Man The Man in Black 1963–1969 The Man in Black – His Greatest Hits 16 Biggest Hits Love, God, Murder The Essential Johnny Cash (2002) Unearthed The Legend The Legend of Johnny Cash Johnny Cash: Patriot 16 Biggest Hits: Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II The Complete Columbia Album Collection

Songs	"25 Minutes to Go" "Seasons of My Heart" "Any Old Wind That Blows" "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" "Big River" "Blistered" "A Boy Named Sue" "Busted" "Cat's in the Cradle" "Cocaine Blues" "Cry! Cry! Cry!" "Daddy Sang Bass" "Dark as a Dungeon" "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" "Engine 143" "Flesh and Blood" "The Folk Singer" "Folsom Prison Blues" "Forty Shades of Green" "Get Rhythm" "Goodnight, Irene" "Green, Green Grass of Home" "Greystone Chapel" "Guess Things Happen That Way" "Hey, Porter" "Home of the Blues" "Hurt" "I Couldn't Keep from Crying" "I Love You Because" "I Still Miss Someone" "I Walk the Line" "If I Had a Hammer" "If I Were a Carpenter" "In My Life" "In the Jailhouse Now" "It Ain't Me Babe" "Jackson" "Kate" "The Man Comes Around" "Man in Black" "The Matador" "Oh Lonesome Me" "One Piece at a Time" "Oney" "Orange Blossom Special" "The One on the Right Is on the Left" "Remember the Alamo" "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" "Ring of Fire" "Rock Island Line" "So Doggone Lonesome" "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" "Tennessee Flat Top Box" "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" "A Thing Called Love" "Understand Your Man" "What Is Truth" "What'd I Say"

Television	The Johnny Cash Show

Family	June Carter Cash John Carter Cash Rosanne Cash Carlene Carter Vivian Liberto Tommy Cash Carter Family

Related	Albums discography Singles discography Sun Records discography The Highwaymen Carter Family Fold Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words Cash: The Autobiography Johnny Cash! The Man, His World, His Music Walk the Line We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash Ring of Fire (2013 film) Ring of Fire (musical) My Father and the Man in Black Dyess, Arkansas The Sound Behind Johnny Cash

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