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Baby Ride Easy: Lost Johnny Cash Album Unearthed for March Release

December 11, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Johnny Cash Out Among the Stars

Though the catalogue of Johnny Cash has been mined numerous times, for acclaimed Bootleg volumes and even a Complete Album Collection box set, there’s still more of the story of the Man in Black yet to be told.  A crucial part of that story will be revealed on March 25, 2014 when Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings release Out Among the Stars, a “lost album” comprised of twelve recently discovered studio recordings made by Cash between 1981 and 1984.

Produced by Nashville legend Billy Sherrill (Charlie Rich, George Jones, Tammy Wynette) and recorded at that city’s Columbia Studios and 1111 Sound Studios, Out Among the Stars is a rare closer look at the music being created during one of the lowest ebbs in Cash’s personal and professional lives.  His long tenure at the label was coming to a close, with albums like The Baron (1981), The Adventures of Johnny Cash (1982) Johnny 99 (1983) and Rainbow (1985) all failing to ignite the charts despite some fine material worthy of rediscovery.  The recordings on Out Among the Stars were made before he departed Columbia for Mercury, where he began his next chapter with 1987’s Johnny Cash is Coming to Town.

On these songs – which are not demos or alternate versions of previously released material - Cash is joined by his wife June Carter Cash and fellow Highwayman Waylon Jennings for duets.  He’s supported by a distinguished ensemble of musicians including the young Marty Stuart on guitar and mandolin plus first-call session vets like Jerry Kennedy (guitar), Pete Drake (steel guitar), Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano) and Henry Strzelecki (bass).  Two of the songs, “Call Your Mother” and “I Came to Believe,” are original Cash compositions.

The material that will premiere on Out Among the Stars was discovered in 2012 when John Carter Cash joined the Legacy team to catalogue his parents’ archives in Tennessee and at the Sony Music Archives.  Cash states, "When my parents passed away, it became necessary to go through this material.  We found these recordings that were produced by Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s…they were beautiful."  He told The Associated Press that “Nashville at the time was in a completely different place. It was the Urban Cowboy phase. It was pop country, and dad was not that. I think him working with Billy was sort of an effort by the record company to put him more in the circle of Music Row and see what could happen at the heart of that machine."  Sherrill, after all, was an architect of the crossover countrypolitan sound that dominated so much of the country music coming from Nashville.

After the jump, we have more details plus the full track listing and pre-order links!

Cash and co-producer Steve Berkowitz enlisted Marty Stuart, Buddy Miller, June’s daughter Carlene Carter and others to “collaborate in restoring the album,” and they completed the recordings at the Cash Cabin Studios in Hendersonville, Tennessee.  The results of their work will be unveiled on March 25.  You can pre-order Out Among the Stars at the links below!

Johnny Cash, Out Among the Stars (Columbia/Legacy, 2014) (Amazon U.K. Link TBA)

  1. Out Among the Stars
  2. Baby Ride Easy (Duet with June Carter Cash)
  3. She Used to Love Me a Lot
  4. After All
  5. I'm Movin' On (Duet with Waylon Jennings)
  6. If I Told You Who It Was
  7. Call Your Mother
  8. I Drove Her Out of My Mind
  9. Tennessee
  10. Rock and Roll Shoes
  11. Don't You Think It's Come Our Time (Duet with June Carter Cash)
  12. I Came to Believe

All tracks previously unreleased.

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Kevin says

    December 12, 2013 at 10:09 am

    Give me more and more and then some!

    To the Secod Disc staff: Thank you for all of the great work this year!

    Tell me...how do I get the second disc homepage to allow me to scroll continuously through all reviews from the recent past. It used to work that way, now all I get is say 5-10 reviews. Then nothing. The archive is not what I want, nor do I want to go to the calendar. Is there still a way to scroll back in chronological (reverse from today) order?

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  2. Chief Brody says

    December 12, 2013 at 12:53 pm

    This is great news! I can never get enough Johnny! The years covered were inarguably a fallow one for Johnny's music--at least compared with much of what came before and after--but he did DO some great stuff in that period. I still think "Johnny 99" is a terrific album that deserves much more recognition than it gets.

    And the wallet gets lighter still . . . . 🙂

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    • Kevin says

      December 13, 2013 at 10:35 am

      If you keep only $1,000 bills in your wallet, then as you spend money and get some change, your wallet actually gets heavier.

      It's a fact.

      Reply
      • Chief Brody says

        December 13, 2013 at 10:53 am

        In this case, my "wallet" is theoretical; I mostly buy online. So my debit card gets "lighter," or whatever the proper phraseology is for describing having less money in one's account. "Poorer," perhaps? 🙂 But, in the case of this new Johnny disc, I'll be happily poorer!

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