A brand new album featuring previously unheard songs from Johnny Cash is set to be released next year, nearly three decades after they were first recorded.
The iconic American singer died in 2003 at the age of 71 but will return to the charts posthumously next year when Legacy Recordings, the catalogue division of Sony Music Entertainment, releases a brand new album titled 'Out Among The Stars' in March.
Johnny Cash' posthumous album 'Out Among The Stars' will be released in March (Packshot)
The songs that will feature on the LP were originally recorded at both the Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennesese in 1981 and 1111 Sound Studios in 1984. Billy Sherrill, who has been dubbed the architect of the 'countrypolitan' sound, headed up the A&R division at CBS Records at the time and has produced the new collection.
'Out Among The Stars' boasts duets with the singer's late wife June Carter Cash and Waylon Jennings and sounds from an large band. Legacy Recordings has stressed that the songs are not demos or unfinished versions, but numbers recorded by Johnny which were forgotten in a vault in the years after his death.
The recordings were discovered by Cash's son Johnny Carter Cash when sifting through his parents' back catalogue.
“When my parents passed away, it became necessary to go through this material. We found these recordings that were produced by Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s…they were beautiful,” he explained.
'Out Among The Stars' is available for pre-order now and will be released on March 24. The full tracklisting is as follows:
1. Out Among The Stars
2. Baby Ride Easy - duet with June Carter Cash
3. She Used To Love Me A Lot
4. After All
5. I'm Movin' On - duet with Waylon Jennings
6. If I Told You Who It Was
7. Call Your Mother (written by Johnny Cash)
8. I Drove Her Out Of My Mind
9. Tennessee
10. Rock and Roll Shoes
11. Don't You Think It's Come Our Time - duet with June Carter Cash
12. I Came To Believe (written by Johnny Cash)
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