As previously reported, Johnny Cash is set to drop his long-lost album Out Among The Stars. The album was recorded with Country Music Hall of Famer Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s, during a low point in Cash's career. Sherrill, who produced the album, was pushing country music in a pop direction that clashed with Cash's style. "It was the 'Urban Cowboy' phase," his son John Carter Cash told the Associated Press. "It was pop country, and dad was not that. I think him working with Billy was sort of an effort by the record company to put him more in the circle of Music Row and see what could happen at the heart of that machine."
The album was never released by his label Columbia Records and had disappeared when they dropped Cash in 1986. Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, hid the tapes in storage. "They never threw anything away," his son told the AP. "They kept everything in their lives."
We've already heard the ballad "She Used To Love Me a Lot" off the upcoming release, but now another track, featuring the revered country star Waylon Jennings, has been unearthed. "I'm Moving On" is a boisterous take on Hank Snow's classic song. The full album is due out March 25.
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