Nathan Kalish Brings Johnny Cash's Abandoned 'Delta Woman' to Life: Exclusive

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Nathan Kalish never met Johnny Cash. But he's co-written a song with the late icon -- "Delta Woman," premiering exclusively below, from Kalish's new album, Songs for Nobody.

Kalish's connection to Cash came last fall, when he was touring in Sweden and was introduced to a memorabilia collector who specialized in Elvis Presley but had also acquired a cache of Cash items from one of the Man in Black's Scandinavian friends.

On the wall, Kalish saw framed copies of handwritten lyrics for songs Cash never recorded. "They were all in his handwriting, and some of them were pretty hard to read," he says. "I went back to the place I was staying and finished 'Delta Woman' that night, totally based off a Johnny Cash style of guitar playing.