“Ain’t No Grave” can hold Johnny Cash down

Seven years after his death, The Man In Black releases the final album he actively participated in the creation of later this month, “American VI: Ain’t No Grave,” produced by long-time collaborator and friend Rick Rubin.

Hopefully, some day, somebody will release the surfeit of terrific albums Cash recorded in the early 70s (among them “Thing Called Love,” “Any Old Wind That Blows,” and the original “Man In Black” album), none of which have seen official release in the digital format.

Friends, there’s money to be made out there. Who’s handling his estate anyhow, the guys who run NBC?? I’m sure some day the bean counters will begin strip-mining everything he recorded with Rubin and releasing endless “new,” “unreleased” recordings—ala RCA and the Elvis Presley catalog of embarrassing alternate takes and blooper reels—why the hell not release some of Cash’s best records from one of the most productive, inspired runs in his career while his immediate heirs are still in a position to benefit from it?

Anyhow, the new CD is out Feb. 23 and is available for pre-order HERE.

They don’t build them like Cash anymore, it’s just that simple.

I usually don’t close a post by quoting someone who left a comment on someone else’s message board, but this from the Rolling Stone article on the upcoming album says it too perfectly for me not to pass it on.

“God is dead, Johnny Cash took his seat and recorded the new 10 Commandements for us to study and to live. And if God wasn’t dead, they would found a band. More than Dylan Cash not only sang about the tragedy which is the USA but embodied it. Long may he roam.” — Jacques Jour