Pitchfork

Best hit the ATM for some, er, dough, because the Man in Black is back on record shelves in earnest this holiday season, with the previously reported Johnny Cash at San Quentin deluxe reissue hitting shops November 14, and the recently announced The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II following up on November 21 via Island/UMe.

Like its predecessor, released last fall, Vol. II chronologically collects Cash favorites, running from 1956's "There You Go" to recent covers of Tom Petty ("I Won't Back Down"), Sting ("I Hung My Head"), and Leonard Cohen ("Bird on a Wire")-- the third a live orchestral version previously only available on the 2003 Unearthed box set. The new collection also boasts the Bob Dylan-bolstered "Girl From the North Country".

Loads of famous folks-- including Iggy Pop, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Chris Martin, Kanye West, Flea, Johnny Depp, Brian Wilson, and, um, Kid Rock-- pay tribute to Cash in the new video for the Man's "God's Gonna Cut You Down", from his 2006 posthumous set American V: A Hundred Highways. You may view it right now on MTV's godawful website or YouTube.

The Legend of Johnny Cash Vol. II:

01 There You Go
02 Home of the Blues
03 Ballad of a Teenage Queen
04 The Ways of a Woman in Love
05 I Still Miss Someone
06 Don't Take Your Guns to Town
07 The Long Black Veil
08 The Ballad of Ira Hayes
09 It Ain't Me Babe
10 Girl From the North Country
11 Daddy Sang Bass
12 Flesh and Blood
13 The Night Hank Williams Came to Town
14 That Old Wheel
15 The Beast in Me
16 Unchained
17 I Won't Back Down
18 I Hung My Head
19 Bird on a Wire
20 In the Sweet By and By

"God's Gonna Cut You Down" video: