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{{Infobox album
| name = Boom Chicka Boom
| type = [[Album]]
| artist = [[Johnny Cash]]
| cover = Johnny Cash Boom Chicka Boon PolyGram Country.jpg
| alt =
| released = January 22, 1990
| recorded = June 1987–Fall 1989
| studio =
| genre = {{flatlist|
*[[Rockabilly]]
*[[Country music|country]]}}
| length = 36:00
| label = [[Mercury Records|Mercury]]
| producer = [[Bob Moore (musician)|Bob Moore]]
| chronology = [[Johnny Cash]]
| prev_title = [[Water from the Wells of Home]]
| prev_year = 1988
| next_title = [[Highwayman 2]]
| next_year = 1990
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Boom Chicka Boom
| type = studio
| single1 = [[Farmer's Almanac (song)|Farmer's Almanac]]
| single1date = March 1990
| single2 = [[Cat's in the Cradle]]
| single2date = June 1990
}}
}}

{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}} <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/boom-chicka-boom-mw0000203373|title=Johnny Cash: Boom Chicka Boom|author=Jurek, Thom|publisher=[[Allmusic]]|website=allmusic.com}}</ref>
|rev2= ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
|rev2score={{rating|4|5}} <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/johnnycash/albums/album/103425/review/5943861/boom_chicka_boom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524100145/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/johnnycash/albums/album/103425/review/5943861/boom_chicka_boom|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 24, 2007|title=Johnny Cash: Boom Chicka Boom|publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]|website=rollingstone.com}}</ref>
|rev3= ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
|rev3score= (favourable)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GJ2P1hu6nToC&q=johnny+cash+1990+spin&pg=PA117|title=Johnny Cash: Boom Chicka Boom|page=117|issue=1|volume=7|date=April 1990|author=Tucker, Ken|author-link=Ken Tucker|publisher=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="Berger">{{cite book|last=Berger|first=Arion|chapter=Johnny Cash|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/145 145–49]|year=2004|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-first=Nathan|editor2-last=Hoard|editor2-first=Christian|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|publisher=[[Simon and Schuster]]|isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
}}

'''''Boom Chicka Boom''''' is the 76th album by American [[country music]] singer [[Johnny Cash]], released in 1990 on [[Mercury Records]]. The title refers to the sound that Cash's backing band, the [[Tennessee Three]], were said to produce. It includes a cover of [[Harry Chapin]]'s "[[Cat's in the Cradle]]", and a song written by [[Elvis Costello]] for Cash, "Hidden Shame". "Don't Go Near the Water" is a re-recorded version and its original had been recorded for ''[[Ragged Old Flag]]''. It discusses the issue of pollution of the environment. In 2003, Mercury released ''Boom Chicka Boom'' paired with ''[[Johnny Cash is Coming to Town]]'' on a single [[compact disc]], though the bonus track "Veteran's Day" was left off. "[[Farmer's Almanac (song)|Farmer's Almanac]]" and "[[Cat's in the Cradle]]" were released as singles, but failed to chart; the album itself, however, reached No. 48 on the country charts. The album has backing vocals by [[Elvis Presley]]'s old backing group [[The Jordanaires]] (who had also backed Cash on some of his earliest Columbia recordings in the late 1950s), and Cash's mother.

==Track listing==
{{track listing |title1=A Backstage Pass |writer1=Johnny Cash |length1=3:23 |title2=[[Cat's in the Cradle]] |writer2=[[Harry Chapin]], Sandy Chapin |length2=3:18 |title3=[[Farmer's Almanac (song)|Farmer's Almanac]] |writer3=Johnny Cash |length3=3:48 |title4=Don't Go Near the Water |writer4=Johnny Cash |length4=2:29 |title5=[[Family Bible (song)|Family Bible]] |writer5=Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Claude Gray |length5=2:49 |title6=Harley |writer6=[[Michael Martin Murphey]], Chick Rains |length6=4:09 |title7=I Love You, Love You |writer7=Johnny Cash |length7=2:54 |title8=Hidden Shame |writer8=[[Elvis Costello]] |length8=3:59 |title9=Monteagle Mountain |writer9=Richard McGibony |length9=3:12 |title10=That's One You Owe Me |writer10=Jim Elliott, Mark D. Sanders |length10=3:01 |title11=Veteran's Day |writer11=[[Tom Russell]] |length11=2:58 |note11=bonus track on the European CD release}}

== Personnel ==
*Johnny Cash - vocals, guitar
*[[W.S. Holland]] - drums
*[[Bob Moore (musician)|Bob Moore]], [[Roy Huskey, Jr.]] - bass guitar
*Joe Zinkan - upright bass
*[[Reggie Young]], Billy Sanford, Jim Soldi - electric guitar
*[[Ray Edenton]] - acoustic guitar
*[[Hargus "Pig" Robbins]], Earl Ball - piano
*[[The Jordanaires]] - background vocals
*Mrs. Carrie Cash (Johnny Cash's mother) - additional vocals on "Family Bible"

==Additional personnel==
*Produced By: Bob Moore
*Recorded at [[Bradley's Barn]] in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee and Stargem Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee
*Mixed at Bradley's Barn
*Engineers: Bobby Bradley, Dennis Ritchie
*Assistant Engineer: Danny Dunkleberger
*Mastered by: Benny Quinn at Masterfonics, Inc. in Nashville, Tennessee
*Original CD Graphics: Barnes & Company
*Art Direction & Design: Bill Barnes
*Photography: Alan Messer
*'''Reissue CD Credits'''
*Supervised by: Andy McKaie
*Digitally Remastered by Suha Gur, universal Mastering - East
*Art Direction: Vartan
*Design: Mike Fink @ilevel
*Photo Research: Ryan Null
*Photos by: Slick Lawson and Alan Messer
*Production Coordination: Beth Stempel

==Charts==
'''Album''' - [[Billboard magazine|''Billboard'']] (United States)
{| class="wikitable"
!align="left"|Year
!align="left"|Chart
!align="left"|Position
|-
|align="left"|1990
|align="left"|Country Albums
|align="left"|48
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101123065902/http://www.lpdiscography.cz/c/Cash/cash_boomchicka.htm LP Discography entry on ''Boom Chicka Boom'']
* [https://www.angelfire.com/tn2/bobloyce/cash.html Bob Moore site's BCB webpage]

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[[Category:Johnny Cash albums]]
[[Category:1990 albums]]
[[Category:Mercury Nashville albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Bob Moore]]

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