American VI - Ain't No Grave (Limited Digipak Edition)

'American VI - Ain't No Grave', is the sixth and final installment of Johnny Cash's critically-acclaimed American Recordings album series. This edition comes in a special digipak cover.

As with the previous five albums in the American Recordings series, 'American VI' was produced by Rick Rubin. Cash and Rubin recorded many songs between the completion of 'American IV - The Man Comes Around' in 2002 right up until September 12, 2003, the day Cash passed.

Songs recorded during this time frame were released in 2006 as 'American V - A Hundred Highways', and now this final grouping of songs 'American VI - Ain't No Grave', ends the series that began in 1994. During these sessions, in May of 2003, less than four months before his death, Cash lost his wife June Carter Cash due to surgical complications. According to Rubin, "Johnny said that recording was his main reason for being alive. I think it was the only thing that kept him going." Though Cash knew his days were short, "There was no fear," Rubin says. "I remember speaking to him maybe an hour after June died. He had been with her in the hospital, and I'd never heard him so distraught. And he said, 'You know, I've been through tremendous pain in my life, and I've never felt anything like this.' It was so bad that I didn't know what to say. He sounded so weak, so beaten, and I'd never really heard him like that before. I'm not sure where the question came from, but I said, 'Do you feel like somewhere you can find faith?' And when he heard that word, a switch went off in his head, and he answered in a strong voice, 'My faith is UNSHAKABLE.' And the conversation changed after that. So he had tremendous faith, he didn't really have fear and he already was dealing with pain; I think he had acceptance. When he knew he was going to die, he was calm and matter of fact about it, and…that was it."

Johnny Cash's final album, 'American VI - Ain't No Grave' displays the enduring voice he gave to the poor and beaten down, livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town.