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Orange Blossom Special is the thirteenth album released by musician Johnny Cash on Columbia Records in 1965. The recordings include country and folk standards, such as "The Long Black Veil", "When It's Springtime in Alaska", "Danny Boy" and "Wildwood Flower". The album's title song was "Orange Blossom Special", released previous to the album, it became a success. At the time it was recorded, the authorship of the song was not widely known, being commonly covered by diverse artists. Cash learned from Maybelle Carter that the song was written by Ervin T. Rouse, who Cash later met during a show in Miami, Florida. Cash's recording is unusual in his repertoire for featuring a tenor saxophone solo by Boots Randolph, an instrument rarely spotlighted on Cash's recordings. The album also contains three songs written by Bob Dylan: "It Ain't Me Babe", "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" and "Mama, You Been on My Mind". The last one was recorded by Dylan as a demo or outtake from an album and the 1964 performance later appeared in "bootleg" collections, but it was first released on this LP by Cash. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
