Rubin announces release of JOHNNY CASH's American V (final album)

Johnny Cash's American V Revealed

James Gregory reports:
As recently reported, the next chapter in Johnny Cash's celebrated American Recordings series is nearing its summer release date-- with American V: A Hundred Highways hitting stores on July 4. How appropriate for such a consummate American institution.

Once again produced by ZZ Top understudy Rick Rubin, the album will feature twelve selections taken from the country legend's final 2003 recording sessions. The official tracklist has made its way into the Pitchfork inbox, via a recent press release from Lost Highway Records:

01 Help Me
02 God's Gonna Cut You Down
03 Like the 309
04 If You Could Read My Mind
05 Further on up the Road
06 The Evening Train
07 I Came to Believe
08 Love's Been Good to Me
09 A Legend in My Time
10 Rose of My Heart
11 Four Strong Winds
12 I'm Free From the Chain Gang Now

A less flashy batch of tunes than the previous American entry (which saw the Man in Black singing on such square-peg covers as "Personal Jesus" and a dazed Fiona Apple duet on "Bridge Over Troubled Water"), the record offers a genuinely warm epitaph to Cash's influential career with weathered but spirited takes on Bruce Springsteen, Gordon Lightfoot, and Rod McKuen tunes, as well as his own "Like the 309", which marks Cash's last original composition put to tape.

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I love the Rick Rubins stuff.

The Man in Black with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. Wonderful!!

Has anybody listened to the "Personal File" recordings yet?

loved the 'kneeling drunkard's plea'

funny thing is, american iv was easily the least of the bunch, but it was the one that got popular-mainly due to the video

it will be good to hear one last batch of new stuff from mr. cash. rubin brought out the best in the man.