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Forever Words

Forever Words
Studio album by various artists
Released	April 6, 2018 (2018-04-06)
Genre	Country Folk, Americana
Language	English
Label	Legacy
Producer	John Carter Cash

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Classic Rock Germany	8/10[2]
Gaffa	[3]

Forever Words is a 2018 album by various artists recording poetry and lyrics by Johnny Cash set to music for the first time. The album follows a 2016 book release of the poems entitled Forever Words: The Unknown Poems (ISBN 0399575138).^[4] The album includes a posthumously released track by Chris Cornell, who died in 2017. In 2020 and 2021, a deluxe version of the album was released in four waves, with a total of 18 additional songs. The first and second waves were released on October 23 and December 11, 2020 with the two remaining waves set for release on February 5 and April 2, 2021 respectively.^[5][6][7]

1. "Forever/I Still Miss Someone" – Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson
2. "To June This Morning" – Ruston Kelly and Kacey Musgraves
3. "Gold All Over the Ground" – Brad Paisley
4. "You Never Knew My Mind" – Chris Cornell
5. "The Captain's Daughter" – Alison Krauss and Union Station
6. "Jellico Coal Man" – T-Bone Burnett
7. "The Walking Wounded" – Rosanne Cash
8. "Them Double Blues" – John Mellencamp
9. "Body on Body" – Jewel
10. "I'll Still Love You" – Elvis Costello
11. "June's Sundown" – Carlene Carter
12. "He Bore It All" – Dailey & Vincent
13. "Chinky Pin Hill" – I'm with Her
14. "Goin', Goin', Gone" – Robert Glasper featuring Ro James and Anu Sun
15. "What Would I Dreamer Do?" – The Jayhawks
16. "Spirit Rider" – Jamey Johnson

Deluxe Edition:

17. "Big Hearted Girl"  – Hard Working Americans
18. "I'm Comin' Honey"  – Shawn Camp
19. "Brand New Pair of Shoes"  – Ana Christina Cash
20. "If You Loved Me"  – Elvis Costello and the Imposters
21. "I've Been Around"  – Marty Stuart
22. "Who's Gonna Grease My Skillet?"  – John Popper
23. "California Poem"  – Jamey Johnson, Sam Bush and Jerry Douglas
24. "Little Patch of Grass"  – Brandon Robert Young and Clare Bowen
25. "The Dogs Are In The Woods"  – John McEuen
26. "Does Anybody Out There Love Me?"  – Jewel
27. "Autumn"  – Watkins Family Hour
28. "Let It Be Tonight"  – Ira Dean
29. "Pretty Pictures in My Mind"  – The Lumineers
30. "Outta Site Tonite"  – Ronnie Dunn and Brad Paisley
31. "My Song"  – Runaway June
32. "Dark and Bloody Ground"  – Ruston Kelly
33. "The Third Degree"  – Aaron Lewis
34. "Tecemseh"  – Bill Miller

• T. Bone Burnett
• Chris Cornell
• Elvis Costello
• Jamey Johnson
• Kris Kristofferson
• Jewel
• Willie Nelson
• John Mellencamp
• Brad Paisley
• Kacey Musgraves
• Rosanne Cash
• Alison Krauss
• Carlene Carter
• I'm with Her (band)

• New Multitudes (2012), a similar project for Woody Guthrie lyrics
• Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes (2014), a similar project for Bob Dylan lyrics and featuring Burnett and Costello
• Out Among the Stars (2014), a posthumous Cash album composed of abandoned sessions which also features Elvis Costello

• Official website