The Return of Johnny Cash—John Carter Cash Interview on Johnny’s New Songwriter Album

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“The Man Comes Around” is a much-played song from the final album Johnny Cash recorded before his death in 2003, American IV: The Man Comes Around. Now, the Man in Black himself has come around again, as the voice and soul of an album he initially cut in 1993, titled Songwriter. It hits the street on June 28.

For fans who know Cash only through his much-loved American Recordings series, this is a very different artist—healthy, vital, his signature baritone booming, his acoustic playing lively, percussive, and focused. This is the muscular Johnny Cash heard on his career-defining recordings, from his early Sun Records sides like “Cry! Cry! Cry!” and “Folsom Prison Blues” to “Ring of Fire” and “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down” to later, less familiar hits like “The Baron” and “That Old Wheel.” In short, classic Cash—the performer who became an international icon and remains one even 21 years after his death.

I recently visited the Cash Cabin recording studio—a log cabin on the Cash family property in Hendersonville, Tennessee, that was originally built as a sanctuary where Johnny wrote songs and poetry—with PG’s video team of Chris Kies and Perry Bean to talk about Songwriter with John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny and June Carter Cash.

In addition to getting the lowdown on Songwriter from John Carter Cash, he showed us some of the iconic guitars—including original Johnny Cash lead guitarist Luther Perkin’s 1953 Fender Esquire and a Martin that was favored by the Man himself—that dwell at the busy private studio. Check out this visit.

0:00 - Intro
1:07 - Recording Johnny Cash’s New Songwriter Album
4:48 - Marty Stuart on Songwriter Album
6:06 - American Recordings & Cash Cabin Studio
10:23 - "Hello Out There" Recording
11:19 - "Drive On" & John Carter Cash Guitar Playing
15:31 - Guest Artists on Johnny Cash Songwriter Album
18:13 - Emotions of Recording with His Father
21:18 - June Carter Cash Documentary
22:36 - Cash Studio’s Favorite: Martin Rosanne Cash Model
24:52 - Johnny Cash’s Martin 00-40H
26:45 - John Carter Cash’s 1959 Les Paul
29:36 - Luther Perkins’ 1953 Esquire
31:46 - Mother Maybelle Carter’s Custom Stromberg
35:19 - Cash Cabin Studio Outro

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