On the "Johnny Cash: Forever Words" tribute album, who did "Them Double Blues"?

On “Johnny Cash: Forever Words,” John Mellencamp performed “Them Double Blues.” The track is part of the 2018 collaborative album that turns previously unpublished Johnny Cash poems, lyrics, and letters into finished songs by contemporary artists.

Mellencamp’s contribution uses Cash’s words as the foundation for a blues-influenced performance. The project was assembled after Cash’s writings were discovered and curated, with musicians creating new music around material Cash had not released as recordings during his lifetime. That makes the album different from a conventional tribute collection: most performers are not simply covering familiar Cash songs.

“Forever Words” includes artists from country, rock, folk, jazz, and alternative music. Other contributors include Chris Cornell, Rosanne Cash, Brad Paisley, T. Bone Burnett, Jewel, and Kris Kristofferson with Willie Nelson. “Them Double Blues” is sometimes confused with a John Mellencamp song from his own catalog, but its defining connection is that the lyrics originate with Johnny Cash and the recording appears on this collaborative album.