Johnny Cash's favorite (and least favorite) Johnny Cash songs

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

Sonny Rollins, giant of jazz saxophone whose muscular sound set the style in the mid-1950s

Sonny Rollins, who has died aged 95, was, as the title of his most celebrated album declared, a Saxophone Colossus.
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Country Music Folsom Prison Blues Lyrics by Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was one of the most influential country music singers in American music history. Known for his deep voice and ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 2005, We Said Goodbye to Johnny Cash’s First Wife and the Subject of This Enduring Hit

So sang country legend Johnny Cash in his 1956 hit single “I Walk the Line”. He had penned the song for his then-wife, Vivian Liberto, who worried his long stretches on the road would lead to ...
American Songwriter

Born 111 Years Ago Today in the Big Easy, the Unsung Musical Genius Behind Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” and Countless Nashville Classics

Bill McElhiney, one of Nashville's most prominent musical arrangers in the 1960s and 1970s, was born May 20, 1915, in New ...

From Elvis to GloRilla, how Memphis has shaped music in America

Memphis has been many things: the birthplace of the blues, ground zero for the revolution of rock 'n' roll, and the city that ...