On July 22, 2006, Johnny Money debuted at No.1 on each the pop and nation charts within the US with American V: A Hundred Highways. It was the fifth album in his celebrated collection of recordings produced by Rick Rubin, and his first posthumous chart-topper following his dying in 2003. Till 2014, when Out Amongst The Stars hit the highest, the album was additionally The Man In Black’s most up-to-date No.1 on the nation chart.
A Hundred Highways was Johnny’s ninth No.1 nation album. That was a sequence that stretched all the way in which again to 1964 – and would in all probability have gone again additional, besides that Billboard solely launched a separate nation album chart for the primary time on January 11 that yr. Money was prime of that very first survey, with the Ring Of Fireplace compilation. A Hundred Highways was additionally Money’s first No.1 nation album since Man In Black in 1971. His solely earlier chart-topper on Billboard’s pop album survey was with Johnny Money At San Quentin in 1969.
A starry video
A brand new video was produced for the monitor “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” Money’s model of a standard tune for which the clip featured an awfully starry line-up. Take a look at the video and test them off as they seem, on this order: Rick Rubin, Iggy Pop, Kanye West, Chris Martin, Kris Kristofferson, Patti Smith, Terence Howard, Flea (Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers), Q-Tip, Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Chris Rock, Justin Timberlake, Kate Moss, Sir Peter Blake, Sheryl Crow, Denis Hopper, Woody Harrelson, Amy Lee of Evanescence, Tommy Lee, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire (Dixie Chicks), Mick Jones, Sharon Stone, Bono, Shelby Lynne, Anthony Kiedis, Travis Barker, Lisa Marie Presley, Child Rock, Jay Z, Keith Richards, Billy Gibbons, Corinne Bailey Rae, Johnny Depp, Graham Nash, Brian Wilson, Rick Rubin (once more), and Owen Wilson.
The album contained two new songs, “I Came To Believe” and his final composition earlier than his dying, “Like The 309,” in addition to covers of such well-known items as Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Four Strong Winds,” written by Ian Tyson and made well-known by Neil Younger. Money additionally reworked Bruce Springsteen’s “Further On (Up The Road)” for the challenge and the Hank Williams tune “On The Evening Train.”
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