American V: A Hundred Highways

American V: A Hundred Highways is a posthumous album by Johnny Cash released on July 4, 2006. As the title implies, it is the fifth entry in Cash's American series. Like its predecessors, American V: A Hundred Highways is produced by Rick Rubin and released on Rubin's American Recordings record label via Lost Highway Records, as they currently distribute country releases from the American Recordings label. It was classified as Gold by the RIAA for having shipped 500,000 units. This album sold 88,000 in its first week of release and has gone on to sell 337,000 copies in the USA.

Track listing

1. "Help Me" (Larry Gatlin) – 2:51
2. :<small>Previously recorded by Kris Kristofferson for Jesus Was a Capricorn (1972)</small>
3. "God's Gonna Cut You Down" (Traditional) – 2:38
4. :<small>Previously recorded by Odetta for Sings Ballads and Blues (1956), by Elvis Presley for How Great Thou Art (1967), and by The Blind Boys of Alabama (as "Run On for a Long Time") for Spirit of the Century (2001)</small>
5. "Like the 309" (Johnny Cash) – 4:35
6. "If You Could Read My Mind" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 4:30
7. :<small>Originally recorded by Lightfoot for Sit Down Young Stranger (1970)</small>
8. "Further On (Up the Road)" (Bruce Springsteen) – 3:25
9. :<small>Originally recorded by Springsteen for The Rising (2002)</small>
10. "On the Evening Train" (Hank Williams) – 4:17
11. "I Came to......
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