American V: A Hundred Highways
Occupation
- Johnny Cash - vocals
- Randy Scruggs - Guitar
- Marty Stuart - Guitar
- Smokey Hormel - guitar
- Laura Cash - violin
- Benmont Tench - Organ, Piano, Keyboards
- Dennis Crouch - Bass Guitar
- Pat McLaughlin - guitar
- Larry Perkins - Guitar
- Jonny Polonsky - Guitar
- Pete Wade - Guitar
- Mac Wiseman - Guitar
American V: A Hundred Highways is a posthumously published studio album of the American country singer Johnny Cash, produced by Rick Rubin and released on American Recordings. All songs were recorded between the death of his wife, June, in May up to Cash's death in September 2003, when he was already seriously ill and almost blind and was in a wheelchair. The album was released on 4 July 2006.
It is named after American Recordings, Unchained, American III: Solitary Man and American IV: The Man Comes Around the fifth album by the so-called American series. Followed in 2010 with American VI: Is not No Grave, the last part.
The music video of God's Gonna Cut You Down was a Grammy Award for Best Music Video - excellent short form. It is a tribute to Cash, occur in the numerous fellow musicians.
The album reached both the pop and country charts in the first place and was awarded by the RIAA gold for 500,000 copies sold.
Content of the songs
Two of the pieces come from Cash: Like the 309, the last song he wrote in his life. He is dying and the symbol that you would be redirected after the death of the train in the home. I Came to Believe addressed an alcoholic who joins a support group because he could no longer cope alone.
The remaining pieces are Cash's versions of songs by artists such as Gordon Lightfoot, Bruce Springsteen, Don Gibson and Hank Williams. On the Evening Train by Hank Williams is about a man that can be converted into the home of his wife 's coffin to the train. He refers to his child goodbye. If You Could Read My Mind is about a divorce, and Rose of My Heart is a love letter to a lover.
The title A Hundred Highways is derived from a line from Love's Been Good to Me; a song that became famous in 1969 by Frank Sinatra.