The Man in Black had a few favorites and an entire album's worth of tracks that exposed the worst side of himself.

It’s impossible to list songs by Johnny Cash and not include “Ring of Fire.” Ironically, the song was written by June Carter, along with Merle Kilgore, and released by Cash in 1963, five years before ...

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 ...

On the other side of Johnny Cash‘s more intense songs like “Folsom Prison Blues,” the apocalyptic “The Man Comes Around,” “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” or “Cocaine Blues,” were more amusing stories of ...

Decades before co-founding the Highwaymen in 1985, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings formed a close friendship since the mid-1960s when both became roommates in Nashville, and their mutual struggles ...

Even when Johnny Cash wasn’t performing gospel music, he often turned earthly tunes into celestial hymns. A heartrending example of such a transformation is his eternal cover of “Hurt” by Nine Inch ...

Johnny Cash is up there with the greats of country music, and plenty of people in and out of country music fandom know his tunes very well. But if you’re not a fan of country music, you might have ...