And there’s nobody better suited to honour and revitalize this legacy than Australian outlaw country founding-figure and brooding baritone Henry Wagons.

Known as the “Man in Black”, Cash’s music has always embraced the existential void and stared down the darkness head-on. No period of his esteemed career did this more so than his infamous, late-career American Recordings albums recorded with creative guru Rick Rubin. Across the course of these six albums released between 1996 and 2006, Cash’s every syllable serves as both a show-down and an embrace of death itself. These American Recordings records were the instigators for Henry Wagons to pick up the guitar and serve as the embryo for an esteemed career playing his own brand of gothic country music over a quarter century. Now, spanning space and time, these two Titans of twang, Cash and Wagons, perfectly intertwine in this new show honoring the songs, arrangements and stories behind these perfectly curated songs.

In CASH: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE AMERICAN RECORDINGS, HENRY WAGONS will lean into the deep mythology and sound of The American Recordings Albums. Featuring the favourites Solitary Man (Neil Diamond), I Hung My Head (Sting), The Mercy Seat (Nick Cave), Hurt (Nine Inch Nails), One (U2) and more, Wagons and his band The Tennessee Studs will re-create the sonic depth, poise and ominous force of the original recordings, as if you were sitting with Cash and Rubin in the control room.

Henry Wagons has a unique knack for seizing your attention in a way that can only come from years of performing on hundreds of stages around the world as one of Australia’s most gifted musicians, performers and radio/TV hosts. Often described as a “professor of song” and instigator of the Australian movement of Indie-Country music, Henry is a master craftsman of the stage and carves out his place upon it like no other.

Henry’s fierce intellect was once hurtling toward a career as a philosopher but was derailed by a record deal and an insatiable need to make noise. No songwriter casts the same kind of ever-curious, startlingly present shadow during a performance. Henry has been nominated for multiple ARIA awards, won multiple AIR awards and been honoured by Music Victoria on numerous occasions for both his solo work and with his band “Wagons”.

All in all, Mr. Wagons is a vibrant creative dynamo that is truly reaching the full extent of his powers and with many a grand scale project set to unfold in the near future… doubtless, he is a creative dynamo, and unique tour de force you need to witness and not soon forgotten.