Johnny Cash: Forever Words Expanded Johnny Cash, Various

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Album-Release:
2020

HRA-Release:
23.10.2020

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  • 1Forever / I Still Miss Someone00:47
  • 2To June This Morning02:05
  • 3Gold All Over the Ground03:31
  • 4You Never Knew My Mind04:57
  • 5The Captain's Daughter04:59
  • 6Jellico Coal Man03:40
  • 7The Walking Wounded05:05
  • 8Them Double Blues02:50
  • 9Body On Body04:27
  • 10I'll Still Love You02:49
  • 11June's Sundown03:38
  • 12He Bore It All03:16
  • 13Chinky Pin Hill03:24
  • 14Goin', Goin', Gone04:12
  • 15What Would I Dreamer Do?03:16
  • 16Spirit Rider04:19
  • 17Big Hearted Girl04:47
  • 18I'm Comin' Honey02:33
  • 19Brand New Pair of Shoes02:45
  • 20If You Love Me02:39
  • Total Runtime01:09:59

Info for Johnny Cash: Forever Words Expanded



When Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash passed, they left behind what John Carter Cash, their son and Johnny Cash: Forever Words co-producer, describes as a "monstrous amassment" of things, including a treasure trove of undiscovered material that includes Johnny Cash's handwritten letters, poems and documents, penned across the entirety of his life.

Over the past two years, album producers John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz invited a stellar cast of musicians to create new music to accompany these newly discovered Cash writings.

Recorded primarily at The Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Johnny Cash: Forever Words is also the musical companion to the best-selling "Forever Words: The Unknown Poems," a volume of Cash's unpublished writing edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and curated by John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz.

Many of the songs on Johnny Cash: Forever Words were directly inspired by material in the book while others are drawn from different sources of Cash's unpublished writings. The tone of the album is established with the opening track "Forever/I Still Miss Someone" featuring Kris Kristofferson reciting the last poem Cash ever wrote alongside guitar accompaniment from Willie Nelson, both lifelong friends of Johnny. Continuing the close-to-home theme, the music then transitions to the deeply personal "To June This Morning," a letter Johnny wrote to his wife, June Carter Cash, now interpreted by real-life couple Ruston Kelly and Kacey Musgraves.

Twenty-one years after Johnny Cash recorded his cover of Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage" for his Grammy Award winning album, Unchained, Chris Cornell continues this special relationship with "You Never Knew My Mind," setting some of Cash's own poignant and introspective words to original music on one of Cornell's last solo recordings.

The album also showcases Rosanne Cash, Johnny Cash's eldest daughter, who interpreted her father's "The Walking Wounded," marking just the second time that she has collaborated on a record with her half-brother John Carter Cash.

John Carter Cash also collaborated here with his half-sister Carlene, his mother June's first daughter, on "June's Sundown." Carlene Carter was just twelve years old when her mother June Carter married Johnny Cash, but bonded immediately with her stepfather who she referred to as "Big John."

The Grammy Award winning bluegrass super-group Alison Krauss & Union Station made a rare recording together on "The Captain's Daughter," the group's first new studio recording in six years.

"Determining the artist for each song was truly a matter of the heart," said John Carter Cash. "I picked the artists who are most connected with my father, who had a personal story that was connected with Dad. It became an exciting endeavor to go through these works, to put them together and present them to different people who could finish them in a way that I believed that Dad would have wanted."

When making the Johnny Cash: Forever Words album, producers John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz tapped into a spirit of musical collaboration between the musicians and the words of Johnny Cash. The goal of Johnny Cash: Forever Words was not to create a "lost" Johnny Cash album, but rather for musicians to connect with these poems and allow them to flourish in a new musical world.

Willie Nelson
Kris Kristofferson
Ruston Kelly
Kacey Musgraves
Brad Paisley
Chris Cornell
Alison Krauss and Union Station
T. Bone Burnett
Rosanne Cash
John Mellencamp
Jewel
Elvis Costello
Carlene Carter
Daily and Vincent
I'm With Her Robert Glasper featuring Ro James, and Anu Sun
The Jayhawks
Jamey Johnson

Produced by John Carter Cash, Steve Berkowitz

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