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Personnel

• Johnny Cash - Vocals, Guitar, Arranger, Adaptation
• Glen Campbell - Vocals, Performer
• Fiona Apple - Vocals
• Nick Cave - Vocals
• Joe Strummer - Vocals
• John Carter Cash - Performer, Arranger, Engineer, Associate Producer, Adaptation
• David Ferguson - Performer, Engineer, Mixing
• D. Sardy - Performer, Engineer, Mixing
• Greg Fidelman - Performer, Mixing
• Bill Bateman - Performer
• Norman Blake - Performer
• Thom Bresh - Performer
• Lester Bulter - Performer
• Mike Campbell - Performer
• Laura Cash - Performer
• Jack Clement - Performer
• Sheryl Crow - Performer
• Howie Epstein - Performer
• Steve Ferrone - Performer
• Flea - Performer
• John Frusciante - Performer
• Terry Harrington - Performer
• Smokey Hormel - Performer
• Rami Jaffee - Performer
• Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. - Performer
• Tom Morello - Performer
• Carl Perkins - Performer
• Larry Perkins - Performer
• Tom Petty - Performer
• Juliet Prater - Performer
• David Roe - Performer
• Randy Scruggs - Performer
• Paul "The Kid" Size - Performer
• Chad Smith - Performer
• Marty Stuart - Performer
• Benmont Tench - Performer
• Jimmy Tittle - Performer

Additional personnel

• Rick Rubin - Producer
• Richard Dodd, Thom Russo, Andrew Scheps, David Schiffman, Chuck Turner - Engineers
• Sylvia Massy - Engineer, Mixing
• Jim Scott - Mixing
• Vlado Meller - Mastering
• Steven Kadison - Assistant
• Christine Cano - Art Direction, Design, Photography
• Martyn Atkins, Andy Earl - Photography
• Lindsay Chase - Production Coordination
• Sylvie Simmons - Interviewer, Text

Recorded:
1993-2003 Recorded at The Cash Cabin Studio, Hendersonville, Tennessee and The Akademie Mathematique Of Philosophical Sound Research, Los Angeles, California.

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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.

Lyrics

Disc 1 — Who's Gonna Cry

Track listing

1. "Long Black Veil" (Danny Dill/Marijohn Wilkin) – 3:15

   Originally recorded by Cash for Orange Blossom Special (1965)

2. "Flesh and Blood" (Cash) – 2:29

   Originally recorded by Cash for The I Walk the Line soundtrack (1970)

3. "Just the Other Side of Nowhere" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:18

   Originally recorded by Kristofferson for Kristofferson (1970)

4. "If I Give My Soul" (Billy Joe Shaver) – 3:01

   Originally recorded by Shaver for Tramp on Your Street (1993)

5. "Understand Your Man" (Cash) – 2:06

   Originally recorded by Cash for I Walk the Line (1964)

6. "Banks of the Ohio" (Maybelle Carter) – 4:07

   Originally recorded by Cash with the Carter Family for Columbia in 1963

7. "Two Timin' Woman" (Cash) – 2:06

   Originally recorded by Cash for Sun and released on Original Sun Sound (1964)

8. "The Caretaker" (Cash) – 1:55

   Originally recorded by Cash for Songs of Our Soil (1959)

9. "Old Chunk of Coal" (Shaver) – 1:54

   Originally recorded by Cash in 1978

10. "I'm Going to Memphis" (Hollie Dew/Alan Lomax) – 2:40

    Originally recorded by Cash for Ride This Train (1960)

11. "Breaking Bread" (Randy L. George) – 2:48
12. "Waiting for a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 1:46

    Originally recorded by Cash for Blood Sweat and Tears (1963)

13. "Casey's Last Ride" (Kristofferson) – 3:21

    Originally recorded by Cash for Rainbow (1985)

14. "No Earthly Good" (Cash) – 2:43

    Originally recorded by Cash for The Rambler (1976)

15. "The Fourth Man in the Fire" (Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith) – 2:48

    Originally recorded by Cash for The Holy Land (1969)

16. "Dark as a Dungeon" (Merle Travis) – 3:00

    Originally recorded by Cash for Old Golden Throat (1968)

17. "Book Review" (dialogue) (Bobby George/Charlie Williams) – 2:07
18. "Down There by the Train" (Tom Waits) – 5:49

    Alternate take from American Recordings

Disc 2 — Trouble in Mind

Track listing

1. "Pocahontas" (Neil Young) – 3:43

   Originally recorded by Young for Rust Never Sleeps (1978)

2. "I'm a Drifter" (Version 1) (Dolly Parton) – 3:50

   Originally recorded by Parton for All I Can Do (1976)

3. "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 3:32
4. "Down the Line" (Roy Orbison/Sam Phillips) – 2:38
5. "I'm Movin' On" (Hank Snow) – 2:54
6. "As Long as the Grass Shall Grow" (Peter La Farge) – 4:21 with June Carter Cash

   Originally recorded by Cash for Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian (1964)

7. "Heart of Gold" (Young) – 3:01

   Originally recorded by Young for Harvest (1972)

8. "The Running Kind" (Haggard) – 3:11 with Tom Petty
9. "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" (Carl Perkins) – 2:11
10. "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (Chuck Berry) – 2:21 with Carl Perkins
11. "T for Texas" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 3:38
12. "Devil's Right Hand" (Steve Earle) – 2:33

    Previously recorded by The Highwaymen for The Road Goes on Forever (1995)

13. "I'm a Drifter" (Version 2) (Parton) – 3:45
14. "Like a Soldier" (Cash) – 2:55 with Willie Nelson

    Alternate take from American Recordings

15. "Drive On" (Cash) – 2:23

    Alternate take from American Recordings

16. "Bird on a Wire" (Leonard Cohen) – 5:13

    Live, orchestrated alternate take from American Recordings

Disc 3 — Redemption Songs

Track listing

1. "A Singer of Songs" (Tim O'Connell) – 2:48
2. "The L & N Don't Stop Here Anymore" (Jean Ritchie) – 3:13

   Originally recorded by Cash for Silver (1979)

3. "Redemption Song" (Bob Marley) – 3:27 with Joe Strummer

   Originally recorded by Marley for Uprising (1980)

4. "Father and Son" (Cat Stevens) – 2:49 with Fiona Apple

   Originally recorded by Stevens for Tea for the Tillerman (1970)

   Originally recorded by Cash for Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me (1974)

5. "Chattanooga Sugar Babe" (Norman Blake) – 3:16
6. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" (Bobby Braddock/Curly Putman) – 2:37
7. "Hard Times Come Again No More" (Stephen Foster) – 4:01
8. "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb) – 3:03

   Originally recorded by Glen Campbell for Wichita Lineman (1968)

9. "Cindy" (Traditional) – 2:53 with Nick Cave
10. "Big Iron" (Marty Robbins) – 3:52
11. "Salty Dog" (Rudy Toombs/Traditional) – 2:26
12. "Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford) – 3:24 with Glen Campbell
13. "You Are My Sunshine" (Jimmie Davis/Charles Mitchell) – 3:18
14. "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Oscar Hammerstein II/Richard Rodgers) – 2:59
15. "The Man Comes Around" (Cash) – 3:51

    Alternate take from American IV: The Man Comes Around

Disc 4 — My Mother's Hymn Book

Track listing

1. "Where We'll Never Grow Old" (James C. Moore) – 3:31
2. "I Shall Not Be Moved" (V.O. Fossett) – 2:41
3. "I Am a Pilgrim" (Merle Travis) – 2:27
4. "Do Lord" (Fossett) – 2:12
5. "When the Roll Is Called up Yonder" (James Milton Black) – 1:36
6. "If We Never Meet Again This Side of Heaven" (Albert E. Brumley) – 2:31
7. "I'll Fly Away" (Brumley) – 1:54
8. "Where the Soul of Man Never Dies" (William Lee Golden/Wayne Raney) – 2:15
9. "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning" (Philip Bliss) – 3:14
10. "When He Reached Down His Hand for Me" (Marion Easterling/Thomas Wright/J.F.B. Wright) – 2:14
11. "In the Sweet By and By" (Sanford Fillmore Bennett/Joseph Philbrick Webster) – 2:25
12. "I'm Bound for the Promised Land" (Traditional) – 2:15
13. "In the Garden" (C. Austin Miles) – 3:18
14. "Softly and Tenderly" (Will L. Thompson) – 3:17
15. "Just as I Am" (William Batchelder Bradbury/Charlotte Elliot) – 2:38

Disc 5 — Best of Johnny Cash on American

Track listing

• From American Recordings (1994):

1. "Delia's Gone" (Silbersdorf, Toops) – 2:19
2. "Bird on a Wire" (Cohen) – 4:04
3. "Thirteen" (Danzig) – 3:23 (though unadvertised as such, this version is extended compared to the original album version)
   • From Unchained (1996):
4. "Rowboat" (Beck) – 3:45
5. "The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart)" (Lyon, McIntire) – 2:28
6. "Rusty Cage" (Cornell) – 2:50
7. "Southern Accents" (Petty) – 4:42
   • From American III: Solitary Man (2000):
8. "Mercy Seat" (Cave, Harvey) – 4:35
9. "Solitary Man" (Diamond) – 2:25
10. "Wayfaring Stranger" (Traditional) – 3:22
11. "One" (Bono, Clayton, Edge, Mullen) – 3:52
    • From American IV: The Man Comes Around (2002):
12. "I Hung My Head" (Sting) – 3:52
13. "The Man Comes Around" (Cash) – 4:29
14. "We'll Meet Again" (Charles, Parker) – 2:57
15. "Hurt" (Reznor) – 3:38