Johnny Cash American VI: Ain't No Grave on LP

The Final Chapter of the Singer's Peerless Collaboration With Producer Rick Rubin

Cash's Final Recordings Captured With Superb Clarity

"...intimate, personal, sobering, and profoundly reflective. Yet the record's greatest asset relates to an emotional transcendence that flies in the face of and even challenges the worries linked to mortality." --TONE Audio, Recording of Special Merit, Issue 27

American VI: Ain't No Grave, the sixth and final installment of Johnny Cash's critically acclaimed American Recordings album series, is the last chapter in the career of one of music's all-time greats. As was the case with the previous five albums in the American Recordings series, American VI was produced by Rick Rubin.

American VI is deeply elegiac and spiritual, with each song serving as 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 from the end of the line, as Johnny Cash looks back on a most extraordinary life.

The songs on American VI are drawn from all over the musical landscape and from various eras, and include 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' "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.

Cash is accompanied by more than a dozen gifted musicians, ranging from Heartbreakers Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench to Avett Brothers members Seth and Scott. This is seriously not to be missed. 

"The thematically unified American VI: Ain’t No Grave revolves around Cash’s unshakable faith and how it allowed him to come to terms with
impending death. The last chapter of one of the most fruitful collaborations
in history (he and producer Rick Rubin found a poignancy that goes above and beyond common language), the record is intimate, personal, sobering, and profoundly reflective. Yet its greatest asset relates to an emotional transcendence that flies in the face of and even challenges the worries linked to mortality. Here is the courageous sound of a man not only conquering that concern, but seemingly welcoming its arrival. Cash’s meekness, balance, tenacity, and calm assume a Biblical tone." --Bob Gendron, TONE Audio, Recording of Special Merit, Issue 27

Johnny Cash American VI: Ain't No Grave Track Listing:

1.  Ain’t No Grave
2.  Redemption Day
3.  For The Good Times
4.  First Corinthians
5.  Where I’m Bound
6.  Satisfied Mind
7.  It Don’t Hurt Anymore
8.  Cool Clear Water
9.  Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
10. Aloha Oe