One of Chris Cornell's final recordings premiered today in celebration of what would have been Johnny Cash's 86th birthday. "You Never Really Knew My Mind" is a collaborative song from Cornell and Cash: the lyrics taken from a poem Cash wrote and were paired with music and haunting vocals by Chris Cornell.
"You Never Really Knew My Mind" is one of 16 songs that appear on the full collaborative album Johnny Cash: Forever Words, all created from Cash's unpublished writings and set to music by Cornell, Elvis Costello, T Bone Burnett, The Jayhawks, and more. The album serves as the musical companion to 2016's Forever Words: The Unknown Poems, a volume of Cash's (previously) unpublished writing.
Johnny Cash: Forever Words arrives April 6th and is available to pre-order from Amazon.
Stream Cornell's powerful tribute to Cash below:
Published February 26th, 2018