Johnny Cash posthumous album to be released in June

Johnny Cash died about 20 years ago, but new music from the “Man in Black” will be released this year.

“Songwriter” was originally recorded in 1993, about a decade before Cash died in 2003, NME reported. It will contain 11 tracks, all written by Cash over the course of his career, Consequence reported.

The album was recorded at LSI Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, when he wasn’t under contract with a recording studio. It was never released until his son, John Carter Cash, worked with producer David Ferguson and several musicians who played with his father.

Ferguson was “Cash’s go-to engineer” in the 1980s and 1990s, Rolling Stone reported.

The first song has already been released — “Well Alright” — featuring “tinny lead guitar, train-shuffle beat, and folksy, humorous lyrics,” Consequence said.

It recounts finding love at a laundromat, according to Rolling Stone.

The album has Cash’s original vocals but with new arrangements. Some songs feature The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Vince Gill and Waylon Jennings.

“The musicians that came in were just tracking with Dad, you know, recording with Dad, just as, in the case of Marty and Dave, they had many times before, so they knew his energies, his movements, and they let him be the guide. It was just playing with Johnny once again, and that’s what it was. That was the energy of the creation,” Carter Cash said.

“Songwriter” will be released digitally on June 28 and on CD and vinyl, with pre-orders open now.

The track list, according to Consequence is: