Johnny Cash Goes Hip-Hop

09/05/08 3:09pm

by Ciara McCann (CHARTattack)

Some classic Johnny Cash country songs undergo daring transformations on Johnny Cash Remixed. A deluxe vinyl edition of the album will be available on Sept. 23, while the CD will be released by Compadre Records on Oct. 14.

Executive producers Snoop Dogg (who's featured on album opener "I Walk The Line"), John Carter Cash (Johnny Cash's son, who performed with his father and executive produced the Walk The Line biopic) and Beyonce's father Mathew Knowles helped put the album together. It features songs that Cash and his band The Tennessee Two originally recorded for Sun Records from 1956 to '59 with hip-hop and dance music arrangements added by the remixers.

"While it stays true to the original recordings, this CD touches on undiscovered ground," says Carter Cash. "This is what my father was about: staying true to tradition while creating groundbreaking new music."

A documentary of the making of the album will follow its release.

Here are the remixers and songs on Johnny Cash Remixed:

QDT Muzik — "I Walk The Line"
Count De Money — "Big River"
Philip Steir — "Get Rhythm"
The Heavy — "Doin' My Time"
Sonny J — "Country Boy"
Alabama 3 — "Leave That Junk Alone"
Midnight Juggernauts — "Port Of Lonely Hearts"
Pete Rock — "Folsom Prison Blues"
Troublemaker — "Straight A's In Love"
Kennedy — "Sugartime"
Wolf — "Rock Island Line"
Machine Drum — "Belshazzar"
Apparat — "I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow"