Despite there being many Johnny Cash songs about failing and being down on your luck, that certainly wasn't true when it came to the singer's career. From the second his debut album — With His Hot and ...

Johnny Cash might best be known as an outlaw country singer who changed the mold, but he’s also known as an accomplished protest songwriter. Many of his songs have held poignant political and cultural ...

He’s a legendary voice of American music, but his last years impacted a new generation of music fans with unadorned and fragile albums. Cash’s final recordings are full of tear-jerking reflection, and ...

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Johnny Cash’s 1968 song from The Holy Land stands as one of his most powerful gospel-inspired tracks from his classic concept ...

He’s a near-mythical figure in the world of country and rockabilly, with a body of work that still holds immense power to this day. His characterful bass baritone voice is immediately recognisable, ...

While country music icon Johnny Cash left this world more than 20 years ago just months after the death of his beloved wife June Carter Cash, the singer and songwriter has more music coming. Tracks ...

This month sees the release of Songwriter, an album of unearthed songs that the late Johnny Cash recorded in 1993, right before he linked up with Rick Rubin and had his grand late-career comeback. At ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts.

They explain how Cash went into a studio with members of his touring band in 1993 and quickly recorded these 11 demos of songs he’d recently written, and then set the recordings aside as he soon moved ...

Kris Kristofferson did his best to get Johnny Cash to listen to his songs when he was still a struggling artist. At the time, though, Cash was a major star and had grown accustomed to receiving tapes ...