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Jones says the project was partly inspired by a chance meeting with Neil Diamond, another former pop singer who reinvented himself in his sixties with two critically acclaimed albums, made in collaboration with the metal, pop and hip-hop producer Rick Rubin. Rubin's song choices became more focused on death as Cash grew older: his 2002 cover of "Hurt", a song about pain, regret and loss by the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, took on new meaning, delivered in his faltering baritone.
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The Second Coming
If you were a much-loved crooner of advancing years, your pockets nicely lined with the rewards of your career, what would you do? Ease your aching joints on to a gold lamé chaise longue? Embark on a life of long lunches and fine wine? Or look at your track record, rip it to shreds and go back t...
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