Johnny Cash: American IV: The Man Comes Around version on CD in Standard edition. This particular edition was published in Europe in publishing company American Recordings in cooperation with Lost Highway on 17. May 2019.

The long career of the real Man in Black has produced amazing results. Would you think, for example, that Johnny Cash has as many singles (48) in the US pop charts as the Stones and the Beach Boys? Or that he won two of his eleven Grammys as a liner notes writer (for "At Folsom Prison" and Dylan's "Nashville Skyline"). Or this record: for 38 (!) consecutive years, a man from Arkansas has been represented on the country charts by at least two singles. But Johnny Cash not only has historical credits that are unparalleled - he continues to add valuable chapters to that history. This is symbolized by the Grammys that the now 70-year-old icon has won in consecutive years since his comeback in 1994. For American Recordings as "Best Folk Album", for Unchained as "Best Country Album" (legendary at the time was the Billboard ad in which Cash thanked the "Nashville music establishment" with an outstretched middle finger for their "support"...) and in 2000 for his latest album, Solitary Man - in the "Best Male Country Vocal Performance" category. The year before, he also won the prestigious Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement. The next chapter will follow in early November. On "American IV: The Man Comes Around," Johnny Cash continues his successful collaboration with producer Rick Rubin. Musicians included Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante, Becka guitarist Smokey Hormel, keyboard legend Billy Preston, drummer Joey Waronker (R.E.M.), Benmont Tench and Mike Campbell from the Tom Petty camp, as well as bluegrass and country players Randy Scruggs and Marty Stuart. They were joined by celebrity vocal guests: Nick Cave sang Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" with Cash, Fiona Apple sang Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," and singer-songwriter Don Henley didn't miss the opportunity to re(co-)interpret the Eagles' classic "Desperado." Trent Reznor ("Hurt"), Martin Gore of Depeche Mode ("Personal Jesus"), Sting ("I Hung My Head") and the duo of Lennon & McCartney ("In My Life") also provided Cash with attractive role models. But Cash also wrote four songs himself, including a reprise of his classic "Give My Love to Rose" and the title gospel song, about which his old (and new) bandmate Marty Stuart said something like this beautiful line, "It's the weirdest, most amazing, most mysterious Christian thing that only God and Johnny Cash could have created together." And as we know, no one can get past those two.

Album spans genres Folk, World, & Country and Country.