Last song Johnny Cash wrote part of No. 1 album
A 1977 photo of country western musician Johnny Cash.
AP 1977
Today's Morning Edition music is from Johnny Cash with the song "Like the 309."
It was on his posthumously released album "American Five: A Hundred Highways," which was No. 1 on the U.S. album chart 10 years ago.
The album includes covers and re-recordings of past songs. This one was an original, and was the last song Cash wrote before he died. He recorded it in August 2003, about a month before he passed away at the age of 71.
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