''The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me'' is the 48th album by country singer

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, released in 1974 on

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. Although credited to Cash alone, the album includes solo performances by his daughter Rosanne Cash, and stepdaughters

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and Carlene Carter (credited as Carlene Routh), predating the launch of their own solo careers. Two songs on the album were written by Kris Kristofferson, while "

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" is a re-recording of a highly successful Cash single, his first smash hit for Columbia from back in 1958. "Father and Daughter (

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)" is a cover version of a well-known

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song and a duet with Cash's stepdaughter,

, with slight changes in lyrics; a version of the same song would be released in 2003 on '' Unearthed'', as a duet with

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. June Carter Cash also performs a solo track without her husband, one of only a couple of occasions where she did this on a Johnny Cash album outside of concert recordings.

Track listing

Note: Track 2 "Don't Take Your Guns to Town" is a re-recording, recorded 18 June 1974 at Sound Spectrum Recording,

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, Hendersonville, TN.

Personnel

* Johnny Cash - vocals, guitar *

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, Jerry Hensley, David Jones, Randy Scruggs, Jerry Shook, Helen Carter, Jack Routh - guitar *

Marshall Grant Marshall Garnett Grant (May 5, 1928 – August 7, 2011) was the upright bassist and electric bassist of singer Johnny Cash's original backing duo, the Tennessee Two, in which Grant and electric guitarist Luther Perkins played. The group became kno ...

, Ronnie Reno, Jimmy Tittle - bass *

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, DJ Fontana - drums * Stu Basone - steel guitar * Gordon Terry - fiddle * Larry McCoy, Jerry Whitehurst - piano * The Carter Family, Rosanne Cash, Carlene Routh, Rosey Nix, June Carter Cash - vocals ;Additional personnel *

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by Charlie Bragg and Johnny Cash *Cover photo: Marion Ward *

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photos: Marion Ward and Hope Powell *Album design: Bill Barnes and Peggy Owens

Charts

Album - ''Billboard'' (United States)

External links

Johnny Cash albums 1974 albums Columbia Records albums {{1970s-country-album-stub, Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me