Announced on Friday, June 12, 2020, one of the most diverse and talented groups of sought-after music makers – The Cash Collective – brought together by five-time GRAMMY-winning producer/songwriter/musician John Carter Cash – announces Hey Crow!, a hard-rocking album that started out heading in one musical direction, but evolved into a piece of work that may surprise many CASH fans. Produced by Justin Johnson, Chuck Turner, and John Carter Cash, Hey Crow! was recorded over a two-and-a-half-year period, in part, at the historic Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville, TN. Hey Crow! (Avondale Records) is set for a June 19, 2020 CD and digital release; the CD and digital pre-sales have already begun, and orders can be placed HERE. Details for the release of a limited issue colored 180-gram vinyl album will be announced shortly.
Released on June 12, 2020, is the album’s lead-off track and lyric video, the rousing and inspirational “Rise Up!” Although written a few years back by John Carter Cash and good friend the Reverend John Francis Maher III, the lyrics are prevalent today. They speak to the intensified bond of love and responsibility to family and society in our current unsettled world, focusing on protecting what’s really important, and teaching our children the value of standing strong through challenge. Said John Carter, “Until the past couple of months with the onset of COVID-19, the line ‘…the snake’s in the kitchen, there’s a lion in the tree’ may have meant something completely different. Things have changed now. There were a few times I ‘worked the fields ’til my fingers bled’, as it says in ‘Rise Up!’. Now, my family and I work side by side. It’s enlightening to see how some of the lyrics have come true and become part of my life.” Check out the “Rise Up!” lyric video below:
The Hey Crow! album is a collection of eight original songs, co-written by John Carter Cash and various writers, including Justin Johnson, George Daeger, Dave Daeger, John Francis Maher, AnnaBelle Cash, and Bill Miller. The final track is a cover of “Through The Fire and the Flames,” written and originally recorded by the British heavy metal band, Dragonforce, and rearranged by Justin Johnson to a grungy tempo with an epic ’70s, prog-rock feel. Although folk music may have been part of the foundation of these recordings, in the end, The Cash Collective’s Hey Crow! is straight ahead, rock and roll. “Much of the writing process was stream-of-consciousness,” explained Justin. “It starts with a spark, but when it catches fire, you’ve got to follow that magic. We followed, and it took us to the rock’n’roll side of what we both really love. ‘Hey Crow!’ became this album because we let it become this album.”
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Source: Press Release
