On February 26, American VI: Ain’t No Grave will hit the market. The Johnny Cash album will include studio recordings made in the star’s final days.
Johnny Cash died in September 2003, just four months after the death of his beloved wife, June Carter. June was Mrs. Cash for 35 years, and his companion for 47 years. They waited 12 years before tying the knot and formalizing their relationship.
The upcoming album contains previously unreleased material, including the song I Corinthians 15:55, which was written in the final years of his life. It also includes several covers, such as Sheryl Crow’s Redemption Day, For the Good Times by Kris Kristofferson, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream by Ed McCurdy and Cool Water by Bob Nolan.
The ‘Man in Black’ spent the final months of his life in the recording studio. Rick Rubin, the album’s producer, revealed, “Johnny said that recording was his main reason for being alive. I think it was the only thing that kept him going.”
In July 2006, nearly 3 years after Cash’s death, his album American V: A Hundred Highways topped the Billboard charts within two weeks of its release.