Elvis Costello, Chris Cornell, and more helped turn some Johnny Cash poems into songs

In 2016, Johnny Cash’s family released Forever Words, a collection of unpublished poetry that they found among his possessions after he died, and now they’ve teamed up with a number of musicians to try and reinterpret some of those poems—and other artifacts found in Cash’s papers—into proper songs. The artists involve include Kris Kristofferson, Willia Nelson, Brad Paisley, T. Bone Burnett, John Mellencamp, Elvis Costello, and Jewel. There’s also a track from Chris Cornell, coming about 20 years after Cash covered Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage” for his album Unchained, with a press release explaining that Cornell’s contribution was one of the last solo recordings he made before his death.