Culture: A Fitting Epitaph ; Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (Def Jam)*****

Birmingham Post › July 17, 2006

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If you don't believe that just listening to a record could reduce you to tears, then you've not heard this, the last collection of material Cash laid down with producer Rick Rubin before his death.

Sensing his - time was drawing to an end, Cash, nearly blind and confined to as wheelchair, insisted on starting the album the day after they finished recording American IV in early 2002 and, over the following eight months Rubin arranged for an engineer to be on call for whenever he felt strong enough to work.

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Culture: A Fitting Epitaph ; Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (Def Jam)*****

During the recordings, in May 2003, June Carter died and the album is informed both by Cash's...

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