J. Cash - American V

PaulieC · 14-03-2006 12:42pm #1

Hi,
Apologies if it's been asked before, but does anyone know anything about the existence of teh American V album by Johnny Cash? From what I can gather through Google, there are about 90 songs recorded for an album before he died and there are fleeting mentions of the 'V' album.
There the trail dies...

dalk · 14-03-2006 1:21pm

The Johnny Cash box set "Unearthed" has 4 cds of previously unreleased Rubin session recordings. Any use? Released last year i think... There cant be many Rubin recordings left.

PaulieC · 14-03-2006 1:33pm

Dalk,
I already have this, along with the originally released 1,2,3 & 4 American Recordings discs.
Apparently after 4 was released, they recorded enough new stuff for a new album, 5. Maybe I'm being greedy, but some (most) of the stuff they recorded together is out of this world, IMO, and I want more

John · 14-03-2006 1:34pm

Cash was working on Unearthed before he died. There was talk of him having done more songs for another album as well but I think that it might have ended up as My Mother's Prayerbook. I'm sure if there was another album it would have been put out in time for this Walk the Line hype that's around at the moment.

dalk · 14-03-2006 2:03pm

cambo_gueno wrote:

Apparently after 4 was released, they recorded enough new stuff for a new album, 5.

I don't know specifically, but I presumed that the recordings on 'Unearthed' included those sessions?

Here's hoping there's more to come...

PaulieC · 14-03-2006 3:03pm

he didn't do any work on Unearthed. It was released from all the stuff they didn't use on the American I-IV albums. My mother's hymn book is included in Unearthed.

Do a search for American V on Google and you'll see what I mean. I thought that now would have been a perfect time to release it too.

John · 14-03-2006 3:47pm

I remember before he died him mentioning a box set that he was putting together and then Unearthed came out a few months later. I know My Mother's Hymn Book was with Unearthed but it was also released as an individual album.

ZappaFrank · 14-03-2006 10:06pm

There will be an American V, Rick Rubin stated in a recent interview that he is currently finishing it off!

John · 15-03-2006 12:28am

Hooray!

Chardee MacDennis · 15-03-2006 1:02am

yup on wikipedia it has American V in for a 2006 release

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin

Amazotheamazing · 15-03-2006 3:15pm

The reason there's been so much speculation is because there's apparently several disks worth of usuable songs still left "unearthed", originally there was supposed to be a religious album in between IV and V, or have V as a gospel album (depending on the source). With the release of My Mother's Hymnbook it kinda got confused, ie was that the gospel V or the religious album between IV and V. Hopefully V will be one last rock and roll type American Recording.

J. Cash - American V

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