Blood, Sweat and Tears is a 1963 Columbia Records album (CS 8730) by Johnny Cash, his fifteenth studio LP, conceived as a tribute to the American working man and the brutal labor traditions that built the country's industrial and agricultural foundations. The centerpiece is "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer," an eight-minute narrative suite delivered with full theatrical intensity. Other tracks — "Busted," "Nine Pound Hammer," "Casey Jones," and "Waiting for a Train" — draw from the folk ballad and field song tradition. The album carries a racial-justice undercurrent that became more legible in retrospect, anticipating Cash's later civil-rights-era statements while remaining rooted in the working-class country idiom that was his natural language as a storyteller.
Tracklist
- 1 The Legend of John Henry's Hammer 8:26
- 2 Tell Him I'm Gone 3:02
- 3 Another Man Done Gone 2:33
- 4 Busted 2:16
- 5 Casey Jones alt version 3:01
- 6 Nine Pound Hammer alt version 2:55
- 7 Chain Gang 2:40
- 8 Waiting for a Train 2:04
- 9 Roughneck 2:10
