RE: [Harp-L] Johnny Cash with Lester Butler and the Red Devils

[Ryan Hartt <rhartt1234@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found the tunes on the Cash box set:
“T for Texas” and “Devil’s Right Hand”
There is only electric guitar on “Devil’s Right Hand”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQFrlLESa4I

Ryan

> From: rhartt1234@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Johnny Cash with Lester Butler and the Red Devils
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 11:57:25 -0500
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> I think only one tune with Lester and/or The Red Devils made it to the box set. 
> I don't recall the title.
> Ryan
> 
> > Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:55:35 -0600
> > From: mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx
> > To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Harp-L] Johnny Cash with Lester Butler and the Red Devils
> > 
> >    Just finished the excellent new biography on Johnny Cash by Robert
> > Hillburn and was surprised to learn that producer Rick Rubin apparently
> > used Lester Butler and the Red Devils blues band on some tracks Johnny Cash
> > had cut for Rick's American Recordings label.  Apparently the sides made it
> > to a 5 cd box set titled "Unearthed."
> >    Was wondering how much of Lester Butler's harpwork found its way onto
> > the recordings.  Anybody heard these sides?  Butler was a fine, tasteful
> > blues harpist.  But Cash was not a blues artist.  I checked YouTube but
> > couldn't find anything, except for a Red Devils/Mick Jagger collaboration.
> > Just curious.
> > 
> > Mick Zaklan
>