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Today In Music History: Johnny Cash's Final "American" Recording

Posted at 6:09 AM on July 22, 2009 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

George Clinton (Parliament, Funkadelic) is 68.
Don Henley (Eagles) is 62.
Rufus Wainwright is 36.

1969 - Aretha Franklin was arrested for disorderly conduct after a disturbance in a Detroit parking lot.
1977 - Stiff Records released My Aim Is True,the debut album from Elvis Costello. (It was released later that October in America).
1979 - Little Richard, now known as the Reverend Richard Pennman, told his congregation about the evils of rock & roll music, declaring "If God can save an old homosexual like me, he can save anybody."
1989 - The Batman soundtrack by Prince started a six-week run at No.1 on the Billboard album chart.

Today in 2006, Johnny Cash was at No.1 on the US album chart with American V: A Hundred Highways. An ailing Cash recorded all the vocal parts first, and the instrumental tracks were recorded after his death in 2005. The record was a mix of Cash originals, standards, and covers by other artists - continuing the sucessful formula of the previous Amercian recordings produced by Rick Rubin, the covers are sometimes by unusual or unlikely choices of artists, in this case Bruce Sprinsteen and Gordon Lightfoot. We played a Cash original, "Like the 309."

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