Unchained (Johnny Cash album)
Occupation
- Johnny Cash - vocals, acoustic guitar
- Tom Petty - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass
- Mike Campbell - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, dobro, mandolin
- Marty Stuart - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass
- Lindsey Buckingham - acoustic guitar
- Howie Epstein - acoustic guitar, bass
- Curt Bisquera, Steve Ferrone - drums
- Mick Fleetwood, Juliet Prater - drums
- Flea - Bass
- Benmont Tench - organ, Hammond organ, Vox organ, piano, harmonium
Unchained is the second album in the " American Recordings " series of country singer Johnny Cash. It was released in November 1996 and reached number 26 of the U.S. country charts.
Songs and cooperation
For the album, Cash sideman by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fleetwood Mac fetched. As highlights of this album are Tom Petty's Southern Accents and fervently sung Spiritual. In the recording of this album it was cash health already so bad that he had to insert in between repeatedly breaks. He had the log cabin which he had built in the 1970s compared to his home, now finally converted into a studio " Cash Cabin " so that he could work undisturbed in the recordings without having to travel far. Like all of Cash's "American " albums, and this was produced by Rick Rubin.
In addition to three cash self-composed pieces of the album contains pieces of Soundgarden ( Rusty Cage) and Beck ( Rowboat ) as well as guest appearances by Flea, bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, in "Spiritual " and Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood on Sea of Heartbreak. The album also includes a cover of Hank Snow- piece I've Been Everywhere.
Award
Despite the fact that Unchained has been almost completely ignored by the American country radio stations, and the other institutions in Nashville, it was awarded a Grammy for Best Country Album. After winning the award reported cash and the record company in Billboard Magazine a " thanksgiving" to the country music industry of Nashville in the form of the famous photos from 1969, recorded during Cash's appearance in the prison of San Quentin, on the cash middle finger pointing into the camera.