For this album, titled Out Among The Stars, Stuart laid down new guitar solos. Dobro master Jerry Douglas came in to add some background twang. Carlene Carter — one of Junes daughters from her previous marriage — even sang a third part on a duet called Baby Ride Easy. While known for their duets, Johnny and June were also famous for their rocky relationship. Cashs career may have been foundering at this point, but John Carter Cash says his parents were happy. At this period of their life, they were focused and together. They were very much in love. Right before this, they were very close to splitting up, he says. When Johnny Cash recorded these songs, hed just come out of rehab; he wrote the last track, Came to Believe, while there. But even the songs on darker subjects have a lightheartedness about them. One, I Drove Her Out of My Mind, describes a suicide by driving off Tennessees Lookout Mountain. Its comedic, John says. Hes laughing and making jokes about how the car dealer is going to feel after he commits suicide in the vehicle without paying for it. No ones expecting a chart-topper from this previously unreleased music. But John Carter Cash does hope to reshape a bit of his fathers tortured legacy, away from the Cocaine Blues and toward the upbeat. He was a man of a lot of laughter, he says. Why not let the light endure? Yes, this cool image whatever brings people in, and its part of who he was. I still havent figured everything out about my dad, and I probably never will. And that darkness, thats truth. But thats not the full picture.
Posted on: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:49:27 +0000