A new Johnny Cash album featuring 12 previously unreleased songs by the late singer is to be released in the New Year.
Featuring duets with June Carter Cash, Out Among the Stars is due out on March 21st, 2014. It’s been described as a collection of “newly discovered studio album premieres”.
The songs were recorded in Nashville before Cash was dropped by his label.
“We were so excited when we discovered this,” John Carter Cash, Johnny’s son, told the Associated Press. “We were like, ‘My goodness, this is a beautiful record that nobody has ever heard.'”
The tracklisting is:
- Out Among The Stars
- Baby Ride Easy – duet with June Carter Cash
- She Used To Love Me A Lot
- After All
- I’m Movin’ On – duet with Waylon Jennings
- If I Told You Who It Was
- Call Your Mother (written by Johnny Cash)
- I Drove Her Out Of My Mind
- Tennessee
- Rock and Roll Shoes
- Don’t You Think It’s Come Our Time – duet with June Carter Cash
- I Came To Believe (written by Johnny Cash)
“Dad was always uniquely himself,” said John Cash. “He never modified himself … And later on the world would come back around.”
Johnny Cash died in 2003 at the age of 71.
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