Track Listing
DISC 1: WHO'S GONNA CRY:
1. Long Black Veil
2. Flesh and Blood
3. Just the Other Side of Nowhere
4. If I Give My Soul
5. Understand Your Man
6. Banks of the Ohio
7. Two Timin' Woman
8. Caretaker, The
9. Old Chunk of Coal
10. I'm Going to Memphis
11. Breaking Bread
12. Waiting For a Train
13. Casey's Last Ride
14. No Earthly Good
15. Fourth Man in the Fire, The
16. Dark as a Dungeon
17. Book Review - (bonus track)
18. Down There by the Train - (bonus track)
DISC 2: TROUBLE IN MIND:
1. Pocahontas
2. I'm a Drifter - (version 1)
3. Trouble in Mind
4. Down the Line
5. I'm Movin' On
6. As Long as the Grass Shall Grow
7. Heart of Gold
8. Running Kind, The - (with Tom Petty)
9. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
10. Brown-Eyed Handsome Man - (with Carl Perkins)
11. "T" For Texas
12. Devil's Right Hand
13. I'm a Drifter - (version 2)
14. Like a Soldier - (bonus track, with Willie Nelson)
15. Drive On - (alternate lyrics, bonus track)
16. Bird on a Wire - (live, bonus track, with The Orchestra)
DISC 3: REDEMPTION SONGS:
1. Singer of Songs, A
2. L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore, The
3. Redemption Song - (with Joe Strummer)
4. Father and Son - (with Fiona Apple)
5. Chattanooga Sugar Babe
6. He Stopped Loving Her Today
7. Hard Times
8. Wichita Lineman
9. Cindy - (with Nick Cave)
10. Big Iron
11. Salty Dog
12. Gentle on My Mind - (with Glen Campbell)
13. You Are My Sunshine
14. You'll Never Walk Alone
15. Man Comes Around, The - (early take, bonus track)
DISC 4: MY MOTHER'S HYMN BOOK:
1. Where We'll Never Grow Old
2. I Shall Not Be Moved
3. I Am a Pilgrim
4. Do Lord
5. When the Roll Is Called up Yonder
6. If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven
7. I'll Fly Away
8. Where the Soul of Man Never Dies
9. Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
10. When He Reached Down
11. In the Sweet by and By
12. I'm Bound For the Promised Land
13. In the Garden
14. Softly and Tenderly
15. Just as I Am
DISC 5: BEST OF CASH ON AMERICAN:
1. Delia's Gone
2. Bird on a Wire
3. Thirteen
4. Rowboat
5. One Rose, The
6. Rusty Cage
7. Southern Accents
8. Mercy Seat
9. Solitary Man
10. Wayfaring Stranger
11. One
12. Hung My Head
13. Man Comes Around, The
14. We'll Meet Again
15. Hurt
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Carl Perkins, Fiona Apple, Glen Campbell, Joe Strummer, Nick Cave, Sheryl Crow, Tom Petty, Willie Nelson | | Producer: | Rick Rubin (Compilation) | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
UNEARTHED is a limited edition 5 disc box set which includes 4 CD's of never- before-heard recordings, plus a Best of Cash on American disc. Deluxe packaging includes a cloth bound 104 page book, never-before-seen photos, Johnny's personal comments, thoughts, and memories about every song.
Personnel includes: Johnny Cash (vocals, acoustic guitar); June Carter Cash, John Carter Cash, Laura Cash, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Carl Perkins, Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, Greg Fidelman, Flea, John Frusciante, Red Devils, Chad Smith, Marty Stuart, Fiona Apple, Joe Strummer, Nick Cave, Tom Morello, Sheryl Crow.
When Johnny Cash passed away in September 2003, American music lost one of its giants, but three months later, Lost Highway posthumously illuminated his legacy with this fascinating five-disc box set. UNEARTHED contains no less than 64 previously unreleased recordings from Cash's AMERICAN RECORDINGS years (essentially 1994-2002) that show the broad range of Cash's interests and interpretive capabilities. Accompanied, for the most part, only by acoustic guitar, he covers Neil Young (the poetic, impressionistic "Pocahontas"), Steve Earle (the rowdy rebel song "Devil's Right Hand"), Jimmy Webb (a tender "Wichita Lineman"), and others.
Cash reaches into the past and future simultaneously, performing duets with younger artists (Fiona Apple on the Cat Stevens tune "Father and Son," Joe Strummer on the Bob Marley evergreen "Redemption Song") and trawling his own memory for the old folk, country, and gospel tunes that influenced him. In fact, an entire disc is devoted to his humble-but-impassioned gospel performances. The emotional authority and overwhelming humanity Cash brings to every song cause one to marvel that these were merely the outtakes from his sessions. On the graveyard-set "The Caretaker," Cash eerily intones "Who's gonna cry when old John dies?" On the basis of this collection alone the answer should be, just about everybody.
Editorial Reviews
Included in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2003
Rolling Stone (12/25/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - The American Recordings saw the core of Cash's muse excavated for music of dark vitality and purging beauty.
Uncut (01/01/2004)
4 stars out of 5 - [I]t's author's artistic tombstone....Every home should have one.
Q (02/01/2004)
...The most remarkable aspect of UNEARTHED is the way it allows listeners to feel like flies on the studio wall....Thanks to Cash's knotted-oak-tree voice and Rubin's hands-off technique, these tracks [are] intimate and mesmerizing... - B+
Entertainment Weekly (12/05/2003)
[P]retty great...
Spin (03/01/2004)
4 stars out of 5 - ...From beginning to end, UNEARTHED is spectacularly good....something like parallel versions of those four final albums....the fourth disc [is] as moving and unadorned an expression of unshakable faith as you will ever hear...
Rolling Stone
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