Artist: JOHNNY CASH
Album: AMERICAN VI: AIN’T NO GRAVE (CD)

Release date: 2010
Media type: CD

American VI: Ain't No Grave is a posthumous album by Johnny Cash, released February 23, 2010, on American and Lost Highway Records Its release was three days prior to what would have been Cash's 78th birthday. The album's music was recorded in the sessions for American V: A Hundred Highways (2006). The album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 54,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release, American VI: Ain't No Grave received generally positive reviews from most music critics.

TRACKLIST:

1."Ain't No Grave (Gonna Hold This Body Down)" (Claude Ely; credited as Traditional) – 2:53
Originally recorded by Ely in 1953

2."Redemption Day" (Sheryl Crow) – 4:22
Originally recorded by Crow for the album Sheryl Crow (1996)

3."For the Good Times" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:22
Originally recorded by Kristofferson for the album Kristofferson (1970)

4."I Corinthians 15:55" (Johnny Cash) – 3:38
Based on 1 Corinthians 15:55: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”

5."Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound" (Tom Paxton) – 3:26
Originally recorded by Paxton for the album Ramblin' Boy (1964)

6."A Satisfied Mind" (Red Hayes, Jack Rhodes) – 2:48
Originally recorded by Porter Wagoner in 1955

7."I Don't Hurt Anymore" (Don Robertson, Walter E. Rollins) – 2:45
Originally recorded by Hank Snow in 1954 and also an R&B hit for Dinah Washington the same year

8."Cool Water" (Bob Nolan) – 2:53
Originally written by Nolan in 1936; most famous version by The Sons of the Pioneers in 1948

9."Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" (Ed McCurdy) – 3:14
Originally recorded by McCurdy in 1950

10."Aloha Oe" (Queen Lili'uokalani) – 3:00
Originally written by Lili'uokalani in 1877; recorded by Elvis Presley in 1961 for Blue Hawaii


LINE-UP:

Johnny Cash – vocals, guitar
Scott Avett – banjo on "Ain't No Grave"
Seth Avett – footsteps & chains on "Ain't No Grave"
Mike Campbell – guitar
Smokey Hormel – guitar
Jonny Polonsky – guitar
Matt Sweeney – guitar
Benmont Tench – piano, harpsichord, organ