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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
PostPosted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:02 pm 
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Throughout his five decades in music, Johnny Cash was unwavering in his dedication to his sound and style. Starting with Sun Records in 1955 through his days at Columbia and beyond, Cash always knew exactly what he wanted to do and exactly how it should sound. Everything he did, all the music he created was definitively Johnny Cash.

By 1980, the business of country music had changed to incorporate sounds that were incongruous with Cash's. His signature blend of folk and that "boom-chicka-boom" beat was out of vogue amongst the slick string-laden "countrypolitan" sounds that had become popular. This shift left all-time greats like Cash in the odd place of being revered, but not selling albums.

In one effort to enhance his commercial appeal, Columbia Records paired Cash with producer Billy Sherrill who was having major success with this new country sound. While Sherrill selected many of the songs, it was Cash's trademark sound that dominated.

The sessions were nothing short of magic. Cash employed an expanded band, featuring a young Marty Stuart on guitar and fiddle as well as long-time duet partners June Carter Cash and Waylon Jennings. Much of what was recorded was locked away in the vault lost and not to be heard again. Until now.

Discovered in 2012, Out Among The Stars is truly a lost, previously unreleased Johnny Cash album. These aren't alternate takes or different versions of songs that you've heard. These are brand new songs to the Cash canon.

Completed in 2013 by Johnny's only son John Carter Cash, Out Among The Stars is a pivotal Johnny Cash album lost in time, and now ready to become a classic.

1. Out Among The Stars
2. Baby Ride Easy - Featuring June Carter Cash
3. She Used To Love Me A Lot
4. After All
5. I'm Movin' On - Featuring 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 - Featuring June Carter Cash
12. I Came To Believe

Bonus Track:
13. She Used To Love Me A Lot (The JC/EC Version)

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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
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NEW JOHNNY CASH ALBUM TO BE RELEASED NEXT SPRING

There's new never-before-heard music coming from Johnny Cash.

Cash's estate is releasing "Out Among the Stars," an album he recorded with Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s that was never released by Columbia Records, then disappeared when the company dropped Cash in 1986. Turns out Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, stashed the tapes - along with just about everything else that came into their possession.

"They never threw anything away," said their son, John Carter Cash. "They kept everything in their lives. They had an archive that had everything in it from the original audio tapes from `The Johnny Cash Show' to random things like a camel saddle, a gift from the prince of Saudi Arabia."

They stored away so much, in fact, the younger Cash and archivists at Legacy Recordings didn't find the material until last year, long after the family began issuing archival music by Cash. "Out Among the Stars" will be out March 25, and continues an intense period of interest in the singer, who helped shape modern country and rock `n' roll music and became an American pop cultural figure before his death 10 years ago at age 71.

Multiple music, book and restoration projects have been started in the past 18 months to mark what would have been the singer's 80th birthday and the 10th anniversary of his death. The music being released was recorded during a difficult period for Cash personally and professionally.

Columbia paired him with Sherrill, a producer and Country Music Hall of Fame member who was then the president of CBS Records Nashville. One of the main architects of country music's so-called countrypolitan sound, Sherrill helped push the genre toward pop sounds and conventions - and away from Cash's more independent-minded ways.

The pairing came at a time when Cash was at a low ebb in his popularity. The music on "Out Among the Stars" is taken from 1981 and `84 sessions, at a time when country music was going through great change.

"Dad was always uniquely himself," Cash said. "And later on the world would come back around. He never modified himself. But 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."

It was clear record company executives didn't think much of the outcome. They put out a few more Cash albums after the recordings were made, but never used the music from those sessions before dropping him. Sherrill backed Cash with a band that consisted of fellow Country Hall of Fame member Hargus "Pig" Robbins and a young friend of Cash's named Marty Stuart.

The younger Cash and his co-producer, archivist Steve Berkowitz, decided they'd bring Stuart back in to re-record his parts with 30 years more experience as a picker. Others, including Buddy Miller and Jerry Douglas, helped fortify the original tapes as well. The 12 tracks include a duet with Waylon Jennings and two with June Carter Cash.

"We were so excited when we discovered this," Cash said. "We were like, my goodness this is a beautiful record that nobody has ever heard. Johnny Cash is in the very prime of his voice for his lifetime. He's pitch perfect. It's seldom where there's more than one vocal take. They're a live take and they're perfect."

John Carter Cash doesn't think Columbia executives realized what they had in hand. Even though his father had been a major star, tastes would soon turn to Garth Brooks and Shania Twain.

Biographer Robert Hilburn, who recently released "Johnny Cash: The Life," said the music fans are about to hear was recorded during some of the most difficult years of Cash's life. He felt like he'd lost his legacy and he was still dealing with the fallout from personal problems including infidelity and drug addiction.

He soon met producer Rick Rubin, though, and wrote a coda to his career that gave his life something of a mythic quality.

"Johnny Cash was redeemed, and that was a wonderful lesson," Hilburn said. "His story is so great and it's so dramatic and it's so much more dramatic than I ever envisioned."

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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:43 pm 
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It's like a new Johnny Cash release! I am looking forward to this!

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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:30 pm 
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Yep - I'll be all over this as well.

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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:55 pm 
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I'm looking forward to this, too. That was an odd period in Johnny's career, as he seemed to fall out of favor and couldn't buy a hit. However, I like his other albums from around this time (Silver, I Would Like To See You Again, Rockabilly Blues, Johnny 99), so this should be a winner.

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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 10:59 am 
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And the Cash fans have no problem with the use of re-recordings and overdubs for this title? Will it sound like an unreleased 1984 album or something more contemporary, and does it matter?


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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:30 am 
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But...but...now there will be some demand for the original tapes. Which means a second release!!!

I'm a little torn on the idea of updating some parts. On the one hand, it's not the album as it was originally done (and yes, I'd like to hear that). On the other hand, since this is (presumably) all unheard, it's not going to tarnish my impression of the original recording because I don't have one.

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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
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What they should do is simultaneously release a deluxe version that contains the new, remastered album, and a bonus disc with the original recordings.

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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
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I'd like just the original release.

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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 8:47 pm 
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alantig wrote:
But...but...now there will be some demand for the original tapes. Which means a second release!!!

I'm thinking the follow-up would be called Out Among The Stars...Naked.

I'm not worried about the additional recording. Those players are pros and will be respectful. I doubt they'll have to do as much "sweetening" as was done on Johnny's last two American Recordings albums. I believe there was little else beyond Johnny's vocal tracks, but the studio musicians created wonderful, complementary music years after Johnny's passing. Those turned out fine, and this will too.

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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
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Bump: Added pre-order details to the first post. Here's the promo trailer:


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 Post subject: [2014-03-25] Johnny Cash "Out Among The Stars" expanded remaster of unreleased 1984 album (Columbia/Legacy)
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And the Cash fans have no problem with the use of re-recordings and overdubs for this title? Will it sound like an unreleased 1984 album or something more contemporary, and does it matter?

My guess is that the re-recording and remixing is being done to try to make it sound less dated and less produced, rather than to try to make it sound contemporary. The producer of the original sessions, Billy Sherrill, was known for his slick sound with piles of strings, background singers, and extensive overdubbing. I bet they are trying to make the sessions sound more sparse, so they will be more appealing to the casual fans who mainly know Cash for his American stuff. I don't have a problem with it, because I'm guessing these recordings were nothing special in their original form, or they wouldn't have been shelved. The stuff he was releasing in the early 80s was not so hot, so his outtakes from that same period are probably not going to set the world on fire.


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 8:41 pm 
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Johnny Cash's son says there are more records to be released from the vaults

Johnny Cash's son John Carter Cash has described a new album by his father as "a great treasure" and says there will be more new music released in the future.

'Out Among The Stars' will be released in March and features 12 tracks by the late singer, recorded for Columbia Records between 1981 and 1984. Among the tracks are duets with Cash's wife June Carter and friend Waylon Jennings. The tracks have never been made available before, as they were recorded at a time when Cash had fallen out of favour with the public and his career deemed over. He was dropped shortly afterward by the label.

The unearthed recordings came to light when John Carter Cash found them in a vault while he was cataloguing his father's private archive in 2012. He discovered hundreds of reels of unreleased live and studio recordings, including duets with Bob Dylan.

The new album will be the fourth posthumous album released since Johnny Cash died in 2003, aged 71. Speaking to the BBC, Carter Cash said: "There is more music to be released that is unheard, there are some great recordings. But we don't want to release something unless it means something. It has to be in line with what we believe my father would have wanted released".

The Cash estate has made a large amount of money since Cash's death, with the new recordings expected to bolster that further. In 2009, Cash sold more than three million records, earning around £4.9 million. Carter Cash, however, has defended the decision to release the recordings, saying: "Do you want to see another Picasso if there's one that nobody has ever seen before? I would say that probably the world would want to see another Picasso. And it's really the same thing. This is a work of art."

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