American Recordings

American Recordings is the 81st album by American country singer Johnny Cash. It was released on April 26, 1994 by American Recordings, after it had changed its name from Def American.

TAt the end of 1994, American Recordings was voted the seventh best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics nationwide. In other year-end lists, it was ranked 36th by Select, 23rd by NME,[22] 19th by Rockdelux, 17th by Les Inrockuptibles, 15th by The Face, 5th by the Los Angeles Times, 4th by Mojo,] and 2nd by OOR.] At the 1995 Grammy Awards, it won Cash a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. In 2006, Country Music Television (CMT) ranked the record number 27 on the network's list of the top 40 greatest country albums in 2006, and in 2009 Rolling Stone placed it at number 366 on the magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.