release date: Nov. 5, 2002
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5]
producer: Rick Rubin, John Carter Cash
label: American Recordings / Universal - nationality: USA
Track highlights: 1. "The Man Comes Around" - 2. "Hurt" - 5. "I Hung My Head" (5 / 5)
Studio album by Johnny Cash and the 4th in his late but great series of 'American' albums series starting off with American Recordings from 1994, followed by Unchained (1996), American III: Solitary Man (2000). All albums are characterized by the most basic sound or stripped down style show-casing the naked Cash - his voice and guitar with none or minimal additional instrumentation and all with producer Rick Rubin.
2002 Favourite releases: 1. The Streets Original Pirate Material - 2. Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights - 3. Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
