After the extremely successful run of covers albums, Johnny Cash's estate now takes us to his back catalogue with a full album of unreleased 1993 tracks called Songwriter, Cash's new video for Hello Out There, a song that takes the side of presenting planet Earth to alien civilizations in bit of a cry for help, and mixes it in with the singer's usual religious inclinations: As per with the award-winning video for Hurt, this black-and-white video's story owes a lot to the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville, this time concentrating on a child finding out about the songwriter's craft or, as per the video's YouTube page:
“Hello Out There” was directed by Matt Paskert and starring Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash’s youngest granddaughter, six-year-old Grace June Cash, the daughter of John Carter and his wife Ana Cristina Cash. In the black and white video, Grace sets off alone on an adventure and comes upon the Cash Cabin, Johnny’s hallowed sanctuary in Hendersonville, Tennessee where he wrote and recorded some of his final songs, and where ‘Songwriter’ was produced.The cynic in me took a hard listen and my conclusion was that this was worthy of release and of inclusion in my Country, Johnny Cash, and Current playlists - and maybe in time my Eternal Playlist as well.
