Henry Wagons – CASH The American Recordings

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No country music icon has the depth, enigma and songwriting weight of Johnny Cash, and there’s nobody better suited to honour and revitalise this legacy than Australian outlaw country founding-figure and brooding baritone Henry Wagons. Known as the “Man in Black”, Cash’s music has always embraced the existential void and stared down the darkness head-on.

No period of his esteemed career did this more so than his infamous, late-career American Recordings albums recorded with creative guru Rick Rubin. Across the course of these six albums released between 1996 and 2006, Cash’s every syllable serves as both a show-down and an embrace of death itself. These American Recordings records were the instigators for Henry Wagons to pick up the guitar and serve as the embryo for an esteemed career playing his own brand of gothic country music over a quarter century.