MAN IN BLACK CELEBRATION!

The rock'n'roll outlaw's 70th birthday is celebrated in style...

JOHNNY CASH is the subject of a tribute album featuring contributions from luminaries such as [/a] and [a].

The album is being compiled by Cash’s former boss and former father-in-law, Marty Stuart, ready for an US release on May 28.

The full tracklisting is still under review, according to a report on www.rollingstone.com, but artists committed to the project include Dwight Yoakam, [/a], [a] and Emmylou Harris. A British release date could not be confirmed, but a spokesman for Cash’s record label, Sony, said that it would be coming out later this year.

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Several more Cash releases are planned for 2002, in which the country superstar celebrates his 70th birthday. A two-CD set, ‘Man In Black – the Very Best Of Johnny Cash’, will be released on February 25, the day before the star’s birthday, backed by a TV advertising campaign. Five classic Cash albums, ‘The Fabulous Johnny Cash’, ‘Hymns By Johnny Cash’, ‘Ride This Train’, ‘Orange Blossom Special’ and ‘Carryin’ On With Johnny Cash and June Carter-Cash’, have been remastered and will be reissued with bonus tracks later this year.

Meanwhile, Cash is recording his fourth album with Rick Rubin, the follow-up to 2000’s ‘American III: Solitary Man’.

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