Nearly seven years after his death, The Man in Black hauntingly sings, “Meet me Jesus, meet me / Meet me in the middle of the air / If these wings fail me, meet me with another pair / There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down.”
“Every morning, when he’d wake up, he would call the engineer and tell him if he was physically up to working that day,” producer Rick Rubin explained, echoing the eleventh hour defiance that rings throughout “Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold This Body Down).” The track serves as the lead single and titular track off Johnny Cash’s second posthumous album with the famed producer, American VI: Ain’t No Grave.
Adding his signature magic and bringing the listener closer to the true immortality that is Cash’s music, Rubin adorns the track with rattling chains that are further enhanced by the addition of The Avett Brothers‘ Seth and Scott Avett playing banjo and stomping their feet.
“Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold This Body Down)” by Johnny Cash
American VI: Ain’t No Grave will be released Feb. 23 — three days before Cash’s 78th birthday — through American Records and Lost Highway Records. As a call of support for the album’s release and to celebrate Cash’s birthday, Lost Highway is asking fans to “Wear Black for Johnny” on Feb. 26.
Rubin produced The Avett Brothers’ major label debut, I and Love and You, which skyrocketed the Concord, N.C.-based trio into the national spotlight. The album was released Sept. 29, 2009 through American Recordings
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