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 ...

The lyrics of over 500 songs written by a songwriting and performing icon are contained in the new book, “The Complete Johnny Cash: Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting.” John Carter Cash, the son 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 ...

Johnny Cash didn’t just sing country music; he was country music. We need not explain why that is the case, but the bottom line is that Johnny Cash was and always will be the epitome of country music.

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 ...