American VI: Ain't No Grave | ||||
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Released | February 23, 2010 | |||
Recorded | May–August 2003 | |||
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Length | 32:21 | |||
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Producer | Rick Rubin | |||
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Singles from American VI:Ain't No Grave | ||||
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American VI:Ain't No Grave is an album by Johnny Cash released posthumously on February 23,2010 on American Recordings and Lost Highway Records. [1] Its release was three days before Cash's 78th birthday. [2] The tracks were recorded during the same sessions as American V:A Hundred Highways (2006),which took place during the final months of Cash's life. The album debuted at #3 on the US Billboard 200 chart,selling 54,000 copies in its first week. Upon its release,American VI:Ain't No Grave received generally positive reviews from music critics.
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 78/100 [3] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
The A.V. Club | A [5] |
The Daily Telegraph | [6] |
The Independent | [7] |
MSN Music (Consumer Guide) | A [8] |
NME | 4/10 [9] |
Pitchfork Media | 5.6/10 [10] |
Rolling Stone | [11] |
Slant Magazine | [12] |
The Times | [13] |
American VI received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic,which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics,the album received an average score of 78,based on 19 reviews. [3] The Times writer Pete Paphides wrote that Cash's "most soulful performances on American VI are invested in Nashville standards". [13] Andy Gill of The Independent declared the album less strong than American V:A Hundred Highways ,but maintains that this installment,"comes so close to those heights [that it] is cause for rejoicing." [7] The Washington Post 's Bill Friskics-Warren wrote that the album presents Cash as "an unwavering man of faith" and noted a "spiritual,even biblical quality to the record". [14] Los Angeles Times writer Ann Powers called it "Cash's hospice record" and lauded his musicianship. [15] MSN Music's Robert Christgau called the album "both the grimmest and the most hopeful" of "those nearness-of-death albums" that in his mind include Mississippi John Hurt's Last Sessions (1972),Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind (1997),Warren Zevon's The Wind (2003),and Neil Young's Prairie Wind (2005). [8] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune said that "death remains the big subject on VI,and Rubin magnifies the drama." [16] The Daily Telegraph 's Andrew Perry dubbed it "Cash’s final,life-affirming masterpiece". [6]
In a mixed review,Slant Magazine's Jesse Cataldo wrote that "the angle imposed here is a double-edged sword,granting a too-strict formula for these songs to occupy,but also granting a greater measure of artistic freedom". [12] Pitchfork Media's Stephen M. Deusner criticized Rick Rubin's production,stating "Ain't No Grave isn't really Cash's farewell as much as it is Rubin's memorial mixtape". [10]
Although cited at the time as the final expected release of recordings from the American sessions (as had American V before it),in March 2014,John Carter Cash indicated that "three or four albums worth" of American material may be released. [17]
The album debuted at #3 on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 54,000 copies, [18] becoming Cash's third posthumous top-ten album in the U.S. [19] As of March 2014,the album has sold 250,000 copies in the US. [20]
In the United Kingdom,the album entered at number nine on the UK Albums Chart. [21] It has sold 62,000 in the UK as of March 2014. [20] American VI:Ain't No Grave also attained international chart success,charting within the top-ten of several other countries. [22]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Ain't No Grave (Gonna Hold This Body Down)" | Claude Ely | 2:53 |
2. | "Redemption Day" | Sheryl Crow | 4:22 |
3. | "For the Good Times" | Kris Kristofferson | 3:22 |
4. | "I Corinthians 15:55" | Johnny Cash | 3:38 |
5. | "Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound" | Tom Paxton | 3:26 |
6. | "Satisfied Mind" | Red Hayes, Jack Rhodes | 2:48 |
7. | "I Don't Hurt Anymore" | Don Robertson, Walter E. Rollins | 2:45 |
8. | "Cool Water" | Bob Nolan | 2:53 |
9. | "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" | Ed McCurdy | 3:14 |
10. | "Aloha Oe" | Queen Liliʻuokalani | 3:00 |
Total length: | 32:21 |
Adapted from the album liner notes.
Album - Billboard (United States)
Chart (2010) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200 [23] | 3 |
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [24] | 2 |
Australian Albums (ARIA) [25] | 22 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [26] | 1 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [27] | 14 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [28] | 35 |
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [29] | 4 |
Croatian Albums (HDU) [30] | 9 |
Danish Albums (Hitlisten) [31] | 2 |
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [32] | 2 |
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [33] | 11 |
French Albums (SNEP) [34] | 59 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [35] | 3 |
Greek Albums (IFPI) [36] | 11 |
Italian Albums (FIMI) [37] | 75 |
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [38] | 12 |
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [39] | 3 |
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [40] | 33 |
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [41] | 5 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [42] | 10 |
UK Albums (OCC) [43] | 9 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [50] | Platinum | 20,000‡ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [51] | Silver | 60,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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