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The 13 Best Albums on Sun Records

By YPB Team

A label that lived on 45s still left behind a short shelf of long-players, plus a few later collections that kept the 706 Union Avenue sound in print. Rockabilly fire and country heartache share the same grooves.

  1. Dance Album of Carl Perkins — ranked #11
    Dance Album of Carl Perkins
    Carl Perkins's 1957 only Sun LP, home to Blue Suede Shoes, Matchbox and Honey Don't.
    1000pts
  2. Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash — ranked #22
    Original Sun Sound of Johnny Cash
    A 1964 Sun LP of overdub-free Cash recordings, the last original-era Sun album of his work.
    791pts
  3. The Million Dollar Quartet — ranked #33
    The Million Dollar Quartet
    The impromptu December 1956 Sun studio jam of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, first issued on LP in 1981.
    753pts
  4. With His Hot and Blue Guitar — ranked #44
    With His Hot and Blue Guitar
    Johnny Cash's 1957 debut and the first LP Sun ever issued, featuring Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk the Line.
    668pts
  5. Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams — ranked #55
    Johnny Cash Sings Hank Williams
    A 1960 Sun LP pairing Cash's takes on Hank Williams songs with his own Sun-era sides.
    565pts
  6. Roy Orbison at the Rock House — ranked #66
    Roy Orbison at the Rock House
    A 1961 Sun LP gathering Roy Orbison's rockabilly sides like Ooby Dooby, cut before his Monument fame.
    439pts
  7. Now Here's Johnny Cash — ranked #77
    Now Here's Johnny Cash
    A 1961 Sun LP that kept mining Cash's unreleased Sun recordings after he left for Columbia.
    439pts
  8. Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous — ranked #88
    Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous
    Johnny Cash's 1958 second Sun LP, collecting Ballad of a Teenage Queen, Guess Things Happen That Way and other hits.
    439pts
  9. Greatest! (Johnny Cash) — ranked #99
    Greatest! (Johnny Cash)
    A 1959 Sun LP of Johnny Cash singles and outtakes, including Get Rhythm and Luther Played the Boogie.
    439pts
  10. All Aboard the Blue Train — ranked #1010
    All Aboard the Blue Train
    A 1962 Sun LP of Johnny Cash's railroad songs, from Train of Love to Rock Island Line.
    439pts
  11. Jerry Lee Lewis (1958) — ranked #1111
    Jerry Lee Lewis (1958)
    Jerry Lee Lewis's 1958 self-titled debut LP on Sun, a showcase of his pounding piano rock and roll.
    439pts
  12. Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers — ranked #1212
    Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers
    A 1969 Sun International album of Cash's train and river songs that reached No. 2 on the country albums chart.
    0pts
  13. Jerry Lee's Greatest! — ranked #1313
    Jerry Lee's Greatest!
    Jerry Lee Lewis's 1961 Sun LP, including his hit cover of What'd I Say.
    0pts

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