# The 13 Best Albums on Sun Records

> 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.

*By YPB Team · Published October 27, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-13-best-albums-on-sun-records*

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

Tags: music, country, 50s, sun records, rockabilly, johnny cash