At what point does a piece of recorded music—in whatever brown paper or pixel-fabricated package it’s delivered in—pass beyond “product” into the realm of “art object”? Johnny Cash spent the last decade of his half-century career recording a series of sepia-toned albums with producer Rick Rubin, records that recontextualized Cash’s gritty Americana for a new … Continue reading Essential New Music: Johnny Cash’s “Unearthed”