The treatment for the all-star video clip was written by Justin Timberlake, who came up with the video\'s concept while he was taking a break from recording with producer Rick Rubin, who helmed Cash\'s award-winning \"American Recording\" album series and Timberlake\'s (Another Song) All Over Again).

Says Rick Rubin on mtv.com:

\"I had no idea yet how to market the album, which I\'d just finished, since Johnny [Cash, who passed away in 2003] was not there and I wasn\'t thinking about doing a video.\"

Justin Timberlake then laid out a plan for a video to accompany the spare, moody song, which would feature a series of stars dressed in Cash\'s signature black.

Other stars who appear in the video include Iggy Pop, Kanye West, Q-Tip, Coldplay\'s Chris Martin, Anthony Kiedis and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Maroon 5\'s Adam Levine, Sheryl Crow, the Dixie Chicks, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, U2 frontman Bono, Kid Rock, Jay-Z, Chris Rock, Kate Moss, Woody Harrelson, Dennis Hopper and Johnny Depp.