A new Johnny Cash album with never-before-heard tracks from the legendary country singer is coming out this summer, nearly two decades after he died in 2003 at the age of 71.
The “Songwriter” will be released June 28 and contains 11 unreleased songs the late-country star wrote and recorded back in 1993, but ended up shelving after he met with producer Rick Rubin and the two instead opted to focus on their musical partnership, the Tennessean reported.
The album is being produced by musician John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny and June Carter Cash, and co-produced by David “Fergie” Ferguson. The two “stripped” the songs “back to just Johnny’s powerful, pristine vocals, and acoustic guitar,” Southern Living noted.
“I wanted it to be songs that mostly people hadn’t heard and that paid close attention to who he was as a songwriter and who he was as an American…
