Johnny Cash - "She Used To Love Me A Lot" (Official Music Video)

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On March 25, Columbia/Legacy will release Out Among the Stars, an album of lost songs recorded by Johnny Cash in the early 1980s. Now, a video has been released for the album cut "She Used to Love Me a Lot", directed by filmmaker John Hillcoat (the man behind The Proposition, The Road, and Lawless as well as music videos for Nick Cave, How to Destroy Angels, Depeche Mode, and more). It collects images from the grittier side of the American landscape, filmed during a month-long journey across the country.

Hillcoat shared a statement about the video in a press release:

The lyrics seemed to speak to America as it is now, to the nation that loved him and to the great divide he fought so hard against. This divide has only grown exponentially since he died, so we wanted to show America under this stark light and as a homage to the very reason Cash always wore black: to the shameful increase of the disenfranchised and outsiders. At the same time, we wanted to reference the great man's own struggle and journey from the love of his life to the burnt out ruins of his infamous lake house home, personal photographs, the cave where he tried to take his life but then turned it all around, the place he last recorded in and his last photo before his passing.

"She Used to Love Me a Lot" was written by Dennis Morgan, Charles Quillen, and Kye Fleming. In 1984, a recording of the song by David Allan Coe was released on Columbia.