series on an unexpecting public. Harder to believe is that the Man in Black has already been at his Maker’s side for two of those decades. When hip-hop/hard rock producer Rick Rubin first approached Cash about recording for American Recordings, the aging country icon was an artist without a label or creative purpose. Together, their unlikely partnership yielded a string of inspired, award-winning albums that once again made Cash a vital voice in contemporary music.
Looking back, we understand that these recordings did more than just resurrect Cash’s career; they sustained the man himself through serious illness, the death of his beloved wife, June Carter Cash, and the toll of his own final days. These songs,handpicked by Cash and Rubin, deal in remorse, redemption and salvation in this life and the next. They came to Cash from everyone from Hank Williams and Dolly Parton to Nick Cave and Trent Reznor.
was a bit of a letdown. That might be due in part to the songs on the record having been compiled nearly a decade after Cash recorded them. Among the handful of highlights is Cash’s rendering of his old pal Kris Kristofferson’s “For the Good Times.” Back in 1970, after Kristofferson, a pilot, landed his helicopter on Cash’s lawn with demos in hand, Cash scored a #1 hit with the young aviator-songwriter’s “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down.
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