The album a beauty, too - as compelling as anything Cash released in the 1980s, when it was recorded. It was shelved, however, for a couple of decades after Cash's label at the time (Columbia) chose not to release it. The music is finally seeing now daylight thanks to John Carter Cash. The only child of Cash and his wife June (both of whom passed away in 2003), John Carter found the master tapes among his late parents' archives and was knocked out by the quality of the songs. "What a blessing to find this music," John Carter Cash told the Guardian.

The songs on Out Among the Stars were cut in 1981 and '84. They were produced by Billy Sherrill (famed for his work with Tammy Wynette and Charlie Rich) and backed by a group of stellar musicians that included a young Marty Stuart on guitar and mandolin as well as Nashville A-Team members Jerry Kennedy (guitar), Pete Drake (steel guitar), Country Music Hall of Fame member Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano) and Henry Strzelecki (bass).