This September, Love Police presents CASH: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE AMERICAN RECORDINGS with Henry Wagons and The Tennessee Studs in a limited season upstairs at Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre.
Known as the “Man in Black”, Johnny Cash’s music has always embraced the existential void and stared down the darkness head-on. No period of his esteemed career did this more so than his infamous, late-career American Recordings albums. Across the course of these six albums released between 1996 and 2006, Cash’s every syllable serves as both a show-down and an embrace of death itself.
Under the genius curative lens of producer and creative guru Rick Rubin, Cash reimagined songs by artists you would least expect, from Nine Inch Nails to Sting, Nick Cave to Neil Diamond. The recordings are revealingly raw, acoustic, beautifully stripped bare. The results of these odd couplings have a synergy unmatched, stretching the boundaries of country music as we know it.
In this brand-new show, CASH: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE AMERICAN RECORDINGS, Australian outlaw country founding-figure and brooding baritone HENRY WAGONS will lean into the deep mythology and sound of The American Recordings Albums. Featuring the favourites Solitary Man (Neil Diamond), Hung My Head (Sting), The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave), Hurt (Nine Inch Nails), One (U2) and more, Wagons and his band The Tennessee Studs will re-create the sonic depth, poise and ominous force of the original recordings, as if you were sitting with Cash and Rubin in the control room.
LOVE POLICE PRESENTS CASH: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE AMERICAN RECORDINGS WITH HENRY WAGONS AND THE TENNESSEE STUDS
UPSTAIRS AT THE ATHENAEUM, MELBOURNE
Wednesday 18 September
Thursday 19 September
Friday 20 September
TICKETS ON SALE 9AM, JULY 1 AT LOVEPOLICE.COM.AU