After 1994's American Recordings revitalized Johnny Cash's career, he and producer had to come up with an encore, and in some respects 1996's Unchained was the sort of album many were expecting to be. Instead of the solo acoustic approach of Unchained paired Cash with a noted rock band。A rollicking tear through "I've Been Everywhere" for the finale. If Unchained didn't seem like an event or an instant classic like its immediate predecessor, it confirmed Cash was still a vital artist with plenty of life in him, no mean feat for a man of 64 who'd been making records for more than 40 years。