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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Lost Johnny Cash songs from 1993 to be released as a new album

Johnny Cash.
Johnny Cash. Photograph: Alan Messer

Eleven previously unreleased songs by Johnny Cash, which the country star recorded as demos in 1993 but never completed, are to finally see the light of day on a new album entitled Songwriter, due to be released on 28 June.

A single, Well Alright, was released today alongside the announcement: a saucy, strutting number about lust amid laundry with a classic Cash opening couplet: “I met her at the laundromat, she was washing extra hot / I said don’t you need a little help with that big load you got?”

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