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Johnny Cash is considered one of the best American songwriters, and now fans have a chance to get their hands on the most comprehensive collection of his lyrics and writings to date.

The Complete Johnny Cash: Lyrics from A Lifetime of Songwriting (pre-order here) collects Cash’s lyrics and entries from his personal notebooks, diaries, pronouncements, and private pages. The book will be published on October 14th. It is 720 pages and will cost $60.

The Complete Johnny Cash features his catalogue of over 500 songs and 38 never-before seen handwritten lyrics and poems including “A Man Should Try” and “Everything’s Alright,” according to a press release. It is organized chronologically and with added commentary by Mark Stielper. The foreword is written by the singer’s son, John Carter Cash.

Cash, who died in 2003, recently became the first musician to have a statue in the US Capitol as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.

For the first time, Johnny Cash’s lyrics will be compiled in a comprehensive new book called Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics, due out November 14th via Little, Brown and Company imprint Voracious Books.

The late, great country artist wrote over 600 songs in his lifetime. The Life in Lyrics hosts the words to 125 of them, fleshed out with commentary from longtime Cash historian Mark Stielper as well as Cash’s son, John Carter Cash. Photos of the artist and additional handwritten letters, lyrics sheets, and more round out the package.

Hardcover copies of Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics retail for $55, while a deluxe edition goes for $125. The latter boasts a never-before-published photograph of Cash performing in 1975; a reproduction of the Cash coat of arms, handdrawn by the artist himself; a double-sided reproduction of the handwritten lyrics to “Flesh and Blood” featuring ornamental drawings and a note to June Carter...

A new Johnny Cash live album, recorded in San Francisco in 1968 by famed taper and audio engineer Owsley Stanley, is set for release September 24th via the Owsley Stanley Foundation and Renew Records/BMG. Johnny Cash, At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24th, 1968 finds the country legend performing in the heart of Haight-Ashbury, and the performance has been teased with Cash’s rendition of “I’m Going to Memphis.”

Recorded just days before the release of his best-known live album, Live at Folsom Prison, Cash historian Mark Stielper tells Rolling Stone...