Johnny Cash - American VI

Today "American VI: Ain't No Grave" is released. The album is comprised of the last recordings of John Cash.

From the press release: During these sessions, in May of 2003, less than four months before he passed, Cash lost his wife June Carter Cash due to surgical complications. According to Rubin, "Johnny said that recording was his main reason for being alive. I think it was the only thing that kept him going."

I will have more to say about the record after I've had a chance to digest it. Outside of Cash's original Sun Recordings, I have found Cash's American Recordings produced by Rick Rubin to be the strongest work of his career.

From "American VI: Ain't No Grave," here is A Satisfied MInd written in 1955 by J.H. "Red" Hayes and Jack Rhodes.