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  • Johnny Cash: Lost Album Will Be Released In The Spring

    Johnny Cash will always be remembered as one of the greatest country singers of all time, and has had an influence on a variety of different types of performers. The news of a new album being released after his death will certainly come as a surprise, and give great excitement to everyone who listened to him.

    Cash’s unheard album was recorded, but was never able to be released after he was dropped from the record label. With his new album being released, it is sure to be a hit, with everyone wanting to hear the previously unreleased material. He died 10 years ago at the age of 71.

    Johnny Cash was known for several hits during his long career, including “Walk The Line,” “Ring Of Fire,” and many others. His life was also the subject of the 2005 film Walk The Line in which Joaquin Phoenix portrayed the legendary musician.

    In a statement that should get fans even more excited for the new album, his son, John Carter Cash, who was one of the people responsible for finding the album said of the material, “We were so excited when we discovered this. We were like, my goodness this is a beautiful record that nobody has ever heard. Johnny Cash is in the very prime of his voice for his lifetime. He’s pitch perfect. It’s seldom where there’s more than one vocal take. They’re a live take and they’re perfect.”

    His estate will be releasing the album called “Out Among The Stars,” an album that was originally recorded in the early 1980s with Billy Sherrill. The album was originally set to be released by Columbia records but disappeared for several years after he was dropped from the record label.

    The lost Johnny Cash album includes 12 tracks, which also has two duets with Cash’s wife June Carter Cash, who also died in 2003.

    Years later, it turns out that the album had been stashed away by Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, and has been waiting to be released ever since. After being lost in the archives for decades with several other things that Cash had stored away, the album was finally found last year by his son and other archivists,

    The music was record during ’81 and ’84, an awkward time for him when other country stars were starting to sound more like pop singers, and he refused to change his style.

    Johnny Cash’s new album “Out Among The Stars” is due out on March 25, 2014.

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  • Johnny Cash Album Stashed For Years, Set For Release

    Johnny Cash was an iconic figure in the world of music when he died ten years ago, and now his family is making sure his fans have access to all of his work, including long-lost recordings that were stashed away.

    John Carter Cash, Johnny’s son with wife June, has been working with archivists to find anything the legendary musician did that might be of public interest, in part because of the ten year anniversary of his death. It hasn’t been an easy process.

    “They never threw anything away,” said Cash. “They kept everything in their lives. They had an archive that had everything in it from the original audio tapes from The Johnny Cash Show to random things like a camel saddle, a gift from the prince of Saudi Arabia.”

    A rare gem was discovered last year, however, in the form of an album that never got released. Out Among The Stars was Cash’s work with Billy Sherrill, a producer and writer who was also the president of CBS Records Nashville. The work was a definitive lean away from Cash’s unique sound and more towards the pop-country sound that, in the ’80s, was all the rage.

    “Dad was always uniquely himself,” Carter-Cash said. “And later on the world would come back around. He never modified himself. But Nashville at the time was in a completely different place. It was the Urban Cowboy phase. It was pop country, and dad was not that. I think him working with Billy was sort of an effort by the record company to put him more in the circle of Music Row and see what could happen at the heart of that machine.”

    The album, which features duets with June Carter Cash and Waylon Jennings, was remastered with new parts from Marty Stuart, who was an original musician on the tracks. The 12-song album will be available March 25.

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