Same artist as Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two — credit variation. Johnny Cash's original backing duo: Luther Perkins (electric guitar, 1928-1968) and Marshall Grant (upright bass, 1928-2011). The trio recorded for Sun Records (1955-1958) and later Columbia (from 1958), establishing the spare "boom-chicka-boom" rhythm that defined Cash's early sound.
Key Sun Records sessions yielded "Cry! Cry! Cry!" (1955), "Folsom Prison Blues" (1955), "I Walk the Line" (1956), and "Big River" (1958). The duo expanded to the Tennessee Three with the addition of drummer W.S. Holland in 1960.
