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(3-CD LP-sized box & 40-Page Book) 'He sounds like a cowboy looks', said Waylon Jennings. Long before the current craze for western music, Johnny Western was playing and singing it his way. He cut The Ballad Of Palladin, worked on the road with Johnny Cash for years, and probably had as much influence on Cash as anyone in the early '60s. This set begins in 1952 with the original version of The Violet And The Rose, and continues through his Columbia, Philips, Hep and JRC sides. Rarities and obscurities take the Johnny Western story all the way up to 1981.