MUMBAI: A compiled collection of late country legend Johnny Cash’s albums will be released by label Columbia/Legacy on 30 October.

The new 63 CD pack 'Johnny Cash – The Complete Columbia Album Collection' box set will include 35 albums released on CD for the first time. The collection will be accompanied by a full-color booklet that includes complete discographic information for every album.

For the first time, 19 chronological titles recorded since 1958 - 1967 are being released in monaural (mono) sound through this compilation. Each title is packaged as mini-LP CD with its original artwork, including the five original gatefold albums in Cash's Columbia discography.

The collection also includes singer’s 1958 debut ‘The Fabulous Johnny Cash’, containing his first number one country single ‘Don't Take Your Guns To Town’. The compilation also enlists Cash’s 1990’s quartet work along with Highwayman 2 which showcases Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. It also features the Top 25 country hit, ‘Silver Stallion’ after Cash had left Columbia records in 1983.

The new box set was compiled by multi-Grammy Award-nominated producer Gregg Geller and multi-Grammy and WC Handy Award-winning producer Steve Berkowitz, who have supervised legacy's historic Johnny Cash reissue program for over a decade.

Commenting on the compiled work, country legend, Willie Nelson said, "I always looked at John as somebody who had been there before me and who was doing it the way he wanted to do it. I always admired and respected him for doing that - he was one of the first rebels, one of the first outlaws (if you want to call him that) that hit Nashville and I was a great fan of his not only for his music but for his attitude." 

The producers have also assembled two new compilations for this box set: ‘Johnny Cash with His Hot & Blue Guitar’- a 28-song collection of single and non-single tracks released during his(1954-58) Sun Records years, including ‘Hey Porter,’ ‘Folsom Prison Blues,’ ‘I Walk The Line,’ ‘Cry! Cry! Cry!,’ ‘Ballad Of A Teenage Queen,’ and ‘Big River.’

The second compilation of two-CD pack ‘The Singles’ Plus, features 55-song collection spanning from1958-85. The pack  titled contains single sides that did not originally appear on Johnny's Columbia albums, 'plus' his guest performances on other artistes albums like Bob Dylan, The Carter Family, Mother Maybelle Carter, June Carter Cash, The Earl Scruggs Revue, Marty Robbins, Willie Nelson, and Shel Silverstein.

Speaking about the compilation label said, “The Complete Columbia Album Collection is a monumental tribute to the original Man in Black. Cash was always in command of his direction, whether it was country and western, gospel, blues, rockabilly, traditional balladry and folk, or any other style he chose to pursue.”