{"id":97793,"date":"2024-04-26T08:45:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T12:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=97793"},"modified":"2024-04-26T07:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T11:59:18","slug":"long-lost-johnny-cash-album-coming-out-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/04\/long-lost-johnny-cash-album-coming-out-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Lost Johnny Cash Album Coming Out This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news for fans of the Man in Black&#8230; Johnny Cash has a NEW ALBUM coming this summer, more than 20 years after his death.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called &#8220;Songwriter&#8221;, and it will be released on June 28th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wjXlx6J9zIc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a collection of 11 original songs he wrote and recorded demos for in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Johnny passed away a decade later in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Only two of them have ever been released in any form: &#8220;Drive On&#8221; and &#8220;Like a Soldier&#8221; were both on his &#8220;American Recordings&#8221; album in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>The other nine songs are brand new, he wrote them over 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>His son John Carter Cash found the demos and rounded up a bunch of musicians to help flesh them out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDad\u2019s advice with anything, whether it was life or making music, was always \u2018follow your heart.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They just released the first track from it, called &#8220;Well Alright&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zumW9D47Ync\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Big news for fans of Johnny Cash, he has a NEW ALBUM coming this summer, more than 20 years after his death.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":97794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[4219,8432],"class_list":["post-97793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-johnny-cash","tag-songwriter"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 22:12:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/04\/long-lost-johnny-cash-album-coming-out-this-summer\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}