JOHNNY CASH American VI: Ain't No Grave (2010 UK 10-track CD
album - The sixth and final installment of Johnny Cash's
critically-acclaimed American Recordings album series, 'Ain't No
Grave' was produced by Rick Rubin and is deeply elegiac and spiritual,
with each song its own piece of the puzzle of life's mysteries and
challenges - the pursuit of salvation, the importance of friendships, the
dream of peace, the power of faith, and the joys and adversities that
entail simple survival.It is an achingly personal and intimate
statement, as, from the end of the line, Johnny looks back on a most
extraordinary life. The songs on American VI are drawn from all over
the musical landscape and from various eras, including Sheryl Crow's
moving 'Redemption Day', close Cash friend Kris Kristofferson's 'For
The Good Times', 'Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound' by Tom
Paxton, Bob Nolan's 'Cool Water', the hopeful 'Last Night I had the
Strangest Dream' by Ed McCurdy, J.H. Red Hayes and Jack Rhodes's
'Satisfied Mind', Queen Lili'uokalani's song of farewell, 'Aloha Oe', and
the never before heard Cash original, 'I Corinthians: 15:55', written
over the last three years of his life)
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