Out Among the Stars
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| Studio album by Johnny Cash | ||||
| Released | March 25, 2014 | |||
| Recorded | 1981 and 1984 | |||
| Studio | Columbia Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, United States (first session) and 1111 Sound Studios, Los Angeles, California, United States (second session), with additional recording in 2013 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 36:37 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings | |||
| Producer | Billy Sherrill, John Carter Cash, Steve Berkowitz | |||
| Compiler | John Carter Cash | |||
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Out Among the Stars is a posthumous studio album from Johnny Cash, released through Legacy Recordings on March 25, 2014. The recordings come from lost 1980s sessions with famed countrypolitan producer Billy Sherrill which were shelved by Cash's record company, Columbia Records, and discovered by Cash's son John Carter Cash in 2012. Cash also recorded the 1981 album The Baron with Sherrill in an attempt to turn around his dismal album sales but the strategy did not work, leaving his record executives eager to end his affiliation with the label. The album also doubles as a posthumous release for singer June Carter Cash, Johnny Cash's wife, who is featured on vocals on two tracks, and for Minnie Pearl and Waylon Jennings, who provide vocals on two other songs.
Two of the tracks would later be rerecorded by Cash at American Recordings and would be released posthumously prior to earlier versions being included here; "I Came to Believe" on American V: A Hundred Highways and a non-duet version of "I'm Movin' On" appears in the box set Unearthed.
The album was preceded by the single "She Used to Love Me a Lot" with a b-side remix of the song from Elvis Costello.
Prior to its release, Stereogum named it one of the most anticipated albums of 2014.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that Billy Sherrill "winds up simply sweetening Johnny without changing his core sound". He added that the album "is generally chipper and bright" and "one of Cash's stronger '80s albums".
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