Johnny Cash drops John Hillcoat-directed video for 'She Used To Love Me a Lot' off upcoming 'Out Among the Stars' [WATCH]

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."

The single "She Used To Love Me A lot" dropped back in January, and now a music video has been released for the cut, directed by filmmaker John Hillcoat (Nick Cave, Depeche Mode). It shows a gritty American landscape and was filmed during a month-long journey across the country.

Hillcoat spoke about the video in a press release saying:

"The lyrics seemed to speak to America as it is now, to the nation that loved him and to the great divide he fought so hard against. This divide has only grown exponentially since he died, so we wanted to show America under this stark light and as a homage to the very reason Cash always wore black: to the shameful increase of the disenfranchised and outsiders. At the same time, we wanted to reference the great man's own struggle and journey from the love of his life to the burnt out ruins of his infamous lake house home, personal photographs, the cave where he tried to take his life but then turned it all around, the place he last recorded in and his last photo before his passing."

Out Among the Stars is due out March 25 via Columbia/Legacy. Check out the video for yourself here, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

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