The late great Johnny Cash's former bandmate, Marty Stuart, says the country hero could "cough better than most people could sing". Today (28.06.
24), the "lost" album 'Songwriter' has been posthumously released after being reworked by his son, John Carter Cash. The 11 songs, which were recorded as demos in 1993, have been stripped back to just Cash's signature bass-baritone voice and acoustic guitar by his and the late June Carter Cash's 54-year-old offspring. And Marty, who played guitar for Cash and was very close to him, has recalled how the 'I Walk The Line' hitmaker only had to cough and his "character" would shine through.
Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. In a feature on the album for The Sun newspaper, Marty said: “Johnny Cash could cough better than most people could sing — even his cough had character to it." Marty spent many memorable days with Cash, who died in 2003, aged 71, and had recorded the tracks at LSI Studios in Nashville a decade prior to his passing, and learned a lot from him.
He said: “Whether he was conducting an interview or doing a press conference or acting in a movie, I went everywhere with him. “He was my best friend and I watched everything. For me, the real classroom was behind the scenes.
” His son says his dad always took his notebooks with him to jot down any ideas he got for lyrics, and he has kept them all. John said: “He lived his life and then the music would come." When he .