The following year, Cash and Columbia Records ended their relationship and he signed with Mercury Nashville. The new label didn't prove to be a success, as the company and the singer fought over stylistic direction. Furthermore, country radio had begun to favor more contemporary artists, and Cash soon found himself shut out of the charts. Nevertheless, he continued to be a popular concert performer. The Highwaymen recorded a second album in , and it was more commercially successful than any of Cash 's Mercury records.
Around that time, his contract with Mercury ended. In , he signed a contract with American Records. His first album for the label, American Recordings , was produced by the label's founder, Rick Rubin , and was a stark, acoustic collection of songs. American Recordings , while not a blockbuster success, revived his career critically and brought him in touch with a younger, rock-oriented audience. His VH1 Storytellers outing was released in , and in the spring of , Cash compiled Love, God, Murder , a three-disc retrospective focusing on the major songwriting themes dominant throughout his career.
Health problems plagued Cash throughout the '90s and into the s, but he continued to record with Rubin ; their fourth collaboration, American IV: The Man Comes Around , was released in late The following year, the Mark Romanek -directed video for his cover of Nine Inch Nails ' "Hurt" garnered considerable acclaim and media attention, culminating in an unexpected nomination for video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Not long after the video sparked numerous stories, his beloved wife June Carter Cash died on May 15, , of complications following heart surgery. Four months later, Johnny died of complications from diabetes in Nashville, Tennessee. He was In Lost Highway released the next-to-last installment of Cash 's legendary "American" recordings, American V: A Hundred Highways , from the late singer's last sessions with collaborator Rick Rubin.
The final installment from those sessions appeared as American VI: Ain't No Grave , in early , and is reported to be the last of the American Recordings releases. Sony Legacy started a vigorous "bootleg" series of rare, unreleased, or hard to find Cash tracks in with the two-disc Bootleg, Vol. In , Out Among the Stars -- a collection of unreleased material recorded in the early '80s, produced by Billy Sherrill and finished under the direction of John Carter Cash in -- appeared in the spring.
Cash 's Mercury albums received a complete reissue in the summer of in the form of a hefty box set, which had an accompanying sampler called Easy Rider: The Best of the Mercury Years. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Because of his gleeful snubbing of conventional wisdom, he pulled off revolutionary crossings between genres and rebirths all through his career.
Cash and Bob Dylan admired each other and went on to perform and record raw duets that reached back through their respective genres and into the basis of early rock, much to the confusion of the s music press. But Cash's crossover success didn't stop with Dylan, nor did it even end with the prime of his career. He kept his music vibrant through the s and '90s by touring with other musicians like Willie Nelson and Jerry Lee Lewis, even recording the genre-defying song "The Wanderer" with U2 in Where most musicians mellow in their old age, Cash only kept opening himself up to new music.
In , Cash released his most famous song among our generation, a raw cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt. This lifetime of genre ambiguity kept Cash at the forefront of trends.
With one foot in country and the other in whatever he damn well pleased, he's earned his status as a pioneer of rock 'n' roll, not just in the early days but across the decades. The foursome did a series of special limited concert tours and recorded two more albums: Highwayman 2 , and Highwayman: The Road Goes on Forever After Cash left Columbia Records in , he recorded for Mercury until , though again with minimal commercial success.
The thirteen songs—some his own, some adaptations of folk pieces, and some from songwriters like Tom Waits, Nick Lowe, and Loudon Wainwright—are often searing explorations of loss and sorrow.
It was awarded a Grammy for Best Country Album. Health problems forced Cash to stop touring in the late nineties, though he made occasional public appearances and continued to record with Rubin.
Cash died in He was devastated when his longtime love, June Carter, died in May , but he continued to work. Just a week before his death on September 12, , from complications associated with diabetes, Cash wrapped up his final track.
Otherwise, there's no reason for me to be here. In , the story of his life and career through the late s was made into a feature film, Walk the Line , starring Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and Reese Witherspoon as Carter. In , fans were treated to new music from the late artist.
May brought Personal File , a two-CD set of unreleased material recorded decades earlier. Starkly arranged and sometimes mournful, the songs highlighted Cash's older and rougher sounding voice, which seared with a raw honesty. Not surprisingly, Cash's influence continued to resonate. In , the community of Starkville, Mississippi, paid honor to the performer and his arrest there in for public intoxication with the Johnny Cash Flower Pickin' Festival.
He was friends with presidents and with Billy Graham. You felt like he should've had his face on Mount Rushmore. In December , it was revealed that another album from Cash had been unearthed.
Out Among the Stars , which had been recorded in the early s but never released by Columbia Records, was discovered by John Carter Cash in his father's archives. Underscoring the singer's sustained popularity, the album became a chart-topper following its release in March We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives.
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