Snoop Dogg. Pete Rock & Others Set For Johnny Cash Remixed Posted by Mitch Michaels on 07.11.2008
Cash gets the hip-hop treatment...
Compadre Records/Music World Music has announced the release of Johnny Cash Remixed, featuring new interpretations of Johnny Cash classics from music remixers and producers who were recruited to take the original master recordings and infuse them with the sounds and technology of modern music styles such as hip hop and dance music. The album, which includes a performance from Snoop Dogg, will be available in stores and online on October 14th. A vinyl deluxe-edition will be available on September 23rd in select independent record stores.
"My father made his stead by defying the expected and accepted way of things" says John Carter Cash. "He set the standard at the same time. He would have loved this remix record. While it stays true to the original recordings, this CD touches on undiscovered ground. This is what my father was about: staying true to tradition while creating groundbreaking new music."
Johnny Cash classics were licensed from Cash's first record label, the legendary Sun Records. The remixed tracks (and remixers) include:
"I Walk The Line" featuring Snoop Dogg (QDT, the new production team led by Snoop Dogg – featuring Snoop, Teddy Riley and DJ Quik)
"Country Boy" (Sonny J, whose album will be released in August on Astralwerks US)
"Get Rhythm" (Philip Steir, the only remixer allowed to work with the Reprise Records Frank Sinatra collection)
"Leave that Junk Alone" (Alabama 3, creators of The Sopranos theme song)
"Folsom Prison Blues" (the legendary Pete Rock)
"Hey Porter" (Mocean Worker, whose remix of Elvis Presley's "Burnin' Love" was used as a soundtrack to Honda's Superbowl TV commercial)
"Sugartime" (Kennedy, cornerstone of the new UK Dirty Pop movement)
"Trail to Mexico (indie favorite Mexican Industry of Sound/MIS)
"Doin' My Time" (The Heavy, critically-acclaimed UK-based band)
"Wide Open Road" (Count de Money)
For more info, check out the project's official site.
