After the album failed to see the light of day, though, the tapes remained in the vault at Columbia (which was Cash's label at the time) and eventually wound their way to the Cash family archives. John Carter Cash, the son of Johnny and June Carter Cash, recently came across the tapes while cataloging his parents' extensive archives.

"When my parents passed away, it became necessary to go through this material," John Carter Cash said. "We found these recordings that were produced by Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s�they were beautiful."