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Wikipedia article
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| type = single
| artist = Johnny Cash
| album = Hello, I'm Johnny Cash
| A-side = "See Ruby Fall"
"Blistered"
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| genre = country
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| label = Columbia 4-45020
| writer = Johnny Cash or
Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison
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| producer = Bob Johnston
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"'See Ruby Fall'" is a song co-written by Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison. The title is a play on the phrase "See Ruby Falls", which is painted on some Southern barn roofs to direct potential tourists to a well-known waterfall in Chattanooga.
Recorded by Cash at the Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 20, 1969, the song was released as a single (Columbia 4-45020, with "Blistered" that was recorded two days earlier on the opposite side)
in October.
On U.S. 'Billboard' country chart, the single charted as a double-A-side, reaching #4.
On the Hot 100, "Blistered" reached #50, and "See Ruby Fall" #75.
(according to some sources, both songs reached #50).
Both "Blistered" and "See Ruby Fall" are part of Johnny Cash's album 'Hello, I'm Johnny Cash' (out in January 1970).
Analysis
Track listing
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| title1 = See Ruby Fall
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| writer1 = J. Cash
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| length1 = 2:48
| title2 = Blistered
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| writer2 = B. E. Wheeler
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| length2 = 2:18
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References
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