New Johnny Cash Record a Classic...

The late country music legend Johnny Cash is shown with his wife, the late June Carter Cash, in their Hendersonville, Tenn. home in this 1999 file photo. Diabetes cost Johnny Cash much of his sight, and he needed a wheelchair, and losing his wife June was crushing. Yet, in retrospect, producer Rick Rubin wasn't surprised to hear Cash's plea the day after June died in May 2003. He needed to work. He HAD to work to keep himself going. Results of some of those recording session after her death and before his, are evident with Tuesday's release of "American V: A Hundred Highways," the fifth and penultimate in a series of discs made with producer Rick Rubin that memorably capped Cash's career.