Chris Cornell – “You Never Knew My Mind”

In 1996, on his Rick Rubin-produced album Unchained, Johnny Cash covered Soundgarden's stomp-rock howler "Rusty Cage," transforming its Zeppelin wails into dusty, hardbitten poetry and its battering-ram riffs into elemental acoustic country and then back into battering-ram riffs. Years later, after Cash died, Chris Cornell took Johnny Cash's words and turned them into his own…

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