From his last (or is that lastest, beacause I'm pretty sure I recall Rubin saying the previous one included his final recordings?) album, American VI: Ain't No Grave
http://www.losthighwayrecords.com/artist/detail.aspx?nid=2680&aid=67
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Oh no, yet more death rattles.
ReplyDeleteI think what I admire most about Johnny Cash was that instead of moving to Las Vegas or Branson, Missouri, and singing "Ring Of Fire" twice a day, he was still trying to say something new right up to the very end. Like a true artist, he was translating the experience of living right up to the moment of dying and offering up his insights to the very last.
ReplyDeleteNow, whether Ain't No Grave was what he wanted to say, or if it's a greedy record company sifting through his rejects to squeeze a little more coin out of the corpse, I can't say. But he was an interesting guy ...
The American Recordings series becomes ever-less interesting with the passage of time. Rubin used Cash to sing his own personal jukebox, picking selections to make Cash 'hip' again. They're mostly gimmicky. None of those songs or performances can stand inspection alongside I Walk the Line, Big River... no fakery there.
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