Johnny Cash – American II: Unchained (LP Vinyl)
Unchained won the Grammy for Best Country Album in 1998, a victory that felt like vindication for Cash and Rubin at a moment when Nashville's mainstream had largely turned its back on the legend. The image of Cash raising a middle finger in a full-page trade ad after the win remains one of country music's defining moments of defiance.
After 1994's American Recordings revitalized Johnny Cash's career, he and producer Rick Rubin had to come up with an encore, and in some respects 1996's Unchained was the sort of album many were expecting American Recordings to be. Instead of the solo acoustic approach of American Recordings, Unchained paired Cash with a noted rock band Rubin had worked with in the past -- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, whose roots-conscious style and Southern heritage would seemingly make them compatible with the Man in Black.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 602537530311
Label: American Recordings
Release Date: 3.3.14
Format: LP Vinyl