Johnny Cash's lost album, 'Out Among the Stars,' is streaming ahead of official release [LISTEN]

Johnny Cash's lost album, Out Among the Stars, is streaming ahead of its official March 25 release via Columbia/Legacy.

The album was recorded with Country Music Hall of Famer Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s but was never released by his label and had disappeared when Columbia dropped Cash in 1986.

Cash's son, John Carter Cash, said that the tapes were hidden in storage. Apparently Cash had so much stored away that his son and archivists and Legacy Recordings didn't find the Out Among the Stars material until recently.

As previously reported, Cash was at a low point in his career when the album was recorded, and 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," John Carter Cash told the AP. "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 features collaborations with Waylon Jennings and Cash's wife, June Carter Cash. Among its 12 tracks are the singles "I'm Moving On" and "She Used To Love Me A Lot."

Stream Out Among the Stars and read a track-by-track preview from Cash's son on The Guardian. Let us know what you think in the comments section.

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Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, June Carter Cash