Johnny Cash Releases Ain't No Grave Next Month

Johnny Cash's final studio album, American VI: Ain't No Grave, will be released on Feb. 26 through American Recordings/Lost Highway.

The album, produced by Rick Rubin (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys), will be out the same day Cash would have turned 78.

Songs on the album include the title track, Kris Kristofferson's "For The Good Times," Sheryl Crow's "Redemption Day," Tom Paxton's "Can Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound" and "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream."

The record — which was recorded in the four months before Cash passed away in September 2003 — will include the never before heard Cash original "I Corinthians: 15:55" which Cash wrote over his final three years alive. Other songs include "Satisfied Mind" and "Aloha Oe."

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers' guitarist Mike Campbell and keyboardist Benmont Tench appear on the album along with Jonny Polonsky and The Avett Brothers.

"Every morning, when he'd wake up, he would call the engineer and tell him if he was physically up to working that day," Rubin says in a press release.

Cash recorded his first of the "American Recordings" back in 1994, which featured a cover of Danzig's "Thirteen." The series also featured covers of Soundgarden's "Rusty Cage" before Cash made a hit with his reworking of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" on 2002's American IV: The Man Comes Around.