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An album of unknown poems and writings by Johnny Cash have been transformed into song by a line-up of contemporary artists. The album is called Johnny Cash Forever Words and features new performances by Chris Cornell, Rosanne Cash, Alison Krauss & Union Station, Willie Nelson, Brad Paisley, Elvis Costello, The Jayhawks and more.

When Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash passed away, they left behind what their son John Carter Cash describes as a "monstrous amassment鈥� of things, including a treasure trove of undiscovered material, which includes Johnny Cash鈥檚 handwritten letters, poems and documents, penned across the entirety of his life."

Over the past two years, album producers John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz invited a cast of musicians to create new music to accompany these newly discovered Cash writings.

Recorded primarily at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee, Johnny Cash: Forever Words is also the musical companion to the best-selling "Forever Words: The Unknown Poems," a volume of Cash's unpublished writing edited by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon and curated by John Carter Cash and Steve Berkowitz.

Many of the songs on Johnny Cash: Forever Words were directly inspired by material in the book while others are drawn from different sources of Cash's unpublished writings.

Elizabeth Alker spoke to John Carter Cash to find out more

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