JOHNNY CASH - FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE (single)

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Cara A = Five Minutes To Live

Cara B = Five Minutes To Live

Sleazy Records / SR121

Released by Sleazy Records for the Record Store Day 2017 in a limited edition, here we have Johnny Cash's "Five Minutes To Live" in two different versions.

Side A has the song with Cash backed by his usual band at the time, so Marshall Grant on bass, WS Holland on drums and Carl Perkins himself on guitar. A song very Johnny Cash style, with the "boom-chick-a-boom" rhythm, so it will please all Johnny Cash fans. It has to.

The version on side B is the one that can be heard during the beginning credits of the 1961 film of the same title, the first movie in which Cash worked  as an actor. In this version, the guitar work comes from Merle Travis. The sound on side B is not as good as on side A, but it is good enough anyway to enjoy a quite different version. By the way, as Dejay Francho writes on the short but informative sleeve notes, the film was re-released in 1966 under a different title: "Door To Door Maniac".

Just a few more lines to say that it will be difficult to make a more spectacular record than this one, with pictures of Johnny Cash printed on both sides of the vinyl. A picture disc that I believe most Johnny Cash fans will "need".