Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
The A.V. Club	A
Robert Christgau	A
The Daily Telegraph
The Independent
NME	4/10
Pitchfork Media	5.6/10
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine
The Times

American VI: Ain't No Grave is an album by Johnny Cash, released posthumously on February 23, 2010, on American Recordings and Lost Highway Records. Its release was three days prior to what would have been Cash's 78th birthday. The album's music was recorded during the same sessions as American V: A Hundred Highways (2006) that took place during the final months of Cash's life. The album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 54,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release, American VI: Ain't No Grave received generally positive reviews from music critics.

The album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 54,000 copies, becoming Cash's third posthumous top-ten album in the U.S. As of March 2014, the album has sold 250,000 copies in the US.

In the United Kingdom, the album entered at number nine on the UK Albums Chart. It has sold 62,000 in the UK as of March 2014.American VI: Ain't No Grave also attained international chart success, charting within the top-ten of several other countries.

American VI received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78, based on 19 reviews.The Times writer Pete Paphides wrote that Cash's "most soulful performances on American VI are invested in Nashville standards". Andy Gill of The Independent declared the album less strong than American V: A Hundred Highways, but maintains that this installment, "comes so close to those heights [that it] is cause for rejoicing."The Washington Post's Bill Friskics-Warren wrote that the album presents Cash as "an unwavering man of faith" and noted a "spiritual, even biblical quality to the record".Los Angeles Times writer Ann Powers called it "Cash's hospice record" and lauded his musicianship.MSN Music's Robert Christgau called the album "both the grimmest and the most hopeful" of "those nearness-of-death albums".Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that "death remains the big subject on VI, and Rubin magnifies the drama."The Daily Telegraph's Andrew Perry dubbed it "Cash’s final, life-affirming masterpiece".

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