Various Artists

The gravity and longevity of Johnny Cash’s influence is immense, and last year a book entitled Johnny Cash: Forever Words was released that included unknown poetry, lyrics, and letters by the late artist.

Meanwhile, over the past two years, album producers John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz invited a stellar cast of musicians to create new music to accompany these newly discovered Cash writings.  The result is Johnny Cash: Forever Words The Music.

Recorded primarily at The Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, TN, many of these new songs songs were directly inspired by material in the book while others were drawn from different sources of Cash's unpublished writings.

Standout tracks include “To June This Morning” by Ruston Kelly and Kacey Musgraves; “You Never Knew My Mind” by Chris Cornell; “The Captain's Daughter” by Alison Krauss and Union Station; “The Walking Wounded” by Rosanne Cash; “June's Sundown” by Carlene Carter; and “What Would I Dreamer Do?” by The Jayhawks.

"Determining the artist for each song was truly a matter of the heart," said John Carter Cash. "I picked the artists who are most connected with my father. It became an exciting endeavor to go through these works, to put them together and present them to different people who could finish them in a way that I believed that Dad would have wanted."

The album will be available on CD, 2LP Vinyl and Digital formats.

Learn more at www.johnnycashforeverwords.com.

 

 

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