You never heard a sadder album than American V. Nearly three years after Johnny Cash's death, the American icon's final recordings are a difficult listen. Short of breath, with a voice jagged ...

2006 for the final release from the late Johnny Cash. In the months leading up to his passing on September 12, 2003, Cash had been recording new material with producer Rick Rubin. The album, titled ...

There was a chilling effect to Johnny Cash s last two Rick Rubin-produced albums in the American series ... ravaged by age and illness. A Hundred Highways is marked by even more sadness, as ...

‘Ain’t No Grave…’ arrives almost seven years after Cash’s death and four years after ‘American V: A Hundred Highways’, the first posthumous album to be distilled from the final ...

12, 2003, the day Cash died. Songs recorded during the period were released in 2006 as "American V: A Hundred Highways," and now this final grouping of songs ends the American Recordings series ...

Wheelchair-bound, nearly blind and close to the end, Johnny Cash nonetheless ... produced American series will reportedly be followed by at least one more. Still, A Hundred Highways feels like ...

The final curtain call on the the life of the man called Cash, American V isn't a collection of oddities and half-baked ideas. Nor is it the usual cash-in celebration of a recently deceased icon.

To his everlasting credit, that’s how Johnny Cash chose to depart as a recording artist on “American V: A Hundred Highways” — utterly exposed, beset by frailty but still unbowed in his ...

Johnny Cash's final album attempts to balance ... Cash's final work, American Recordings V: A Hundred Highways, tries to balance the man and the myth, addressing his life and career with a humor ...

Has there been a recent musical project more death-obsessed than Johnny Cash’s American Recordings ... The posthumous American V: A Hundred Highways, an equally melancholy mix of covers ...