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On This Day in 2006, Unreleased Johnny Cash Songs Become His 92nd Album, ‘Personal File’
Johnny Cash released a posthumous album in 2006 that featured 49 lost recordings from the 70s and 80s, which were stored at his studio.
Trump Thinks It Was ‘Stupid’ Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term. He’s Making Up for It
Trump seeks crypto profits, foreign luxury gifts, as he wields the public office of the presidency for his private enrichment ...
The Rolling Stones Debut A New Album — One That’s Already Become A Hit
The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. debuts on several U.K. charts after becoming a bestseller again, appearing on three ...
Spotify to Add Over 50 Audiobooks About Albums, From Kendrick Lamar to Britney Spears and More
The streaming platform Spotify will incorporate 33 ⅓ book series on the platform, including books about albums by Celine Dion ...
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The Elvis Costello Song Johnny Cash Recorded First, “Hidden Shame,” and the Other One That Got Away
In 1987, Johnny Cash covered Elvis Costello‘s “The Big Light” on his album Johnny Cash Is Coming To Town. Costello first released the song a year earlier on King of America. By the late ...
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The 2 Songs Roy Orbison Wrote for Johnny Cash in 1959 and 1969
Though Phillips said, “Well, Johnny Cash doesn’t run this operation, I do, thank you very much,” before hanging up on the young singer, Orbison eventually made his way into Sun with his ...
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The Remarkable Life Of June Carter Cash, The Wife Of Johnny Cash Who Won 5 Grammys Of Her Own
June first performed at one of Johnny Cash’s shows in 1961 ... him — and it wasn’t a convenient time for him to fall in love with me,” June told Rolling Stone in 2000. “I was miserable, and it all ...
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3 Johnny Cash Songs Covered by Waylon Jennings
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 ...
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On This Day in 1956, Johnny Cash Recorded His First No. 1 Single in the Legendary Sun Studio
On this day (April 2) in 1956, Johnny Cash stepped into Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and recorded “I Walk the Line.” Sun released the song as a single a month later, and it caught on like ...
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Behind the Failed Attempt To Censor Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson: The Rebellious Ryman Performance of 1970
Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson were hard to tame. Both artists were passionate, convicted, admirably idealistic, and would seemingly not bend or break for anyone or anything. That’s simply ...
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The 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time
This is probably the only Rolling Stone list to ever feature Phil Ochs, the Dead Kennedys, and Beyoncé side by side, but each of those artists is a vital participant in the long story of ...
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3 Songs That Sound Like Johnny Cash but Actually Aren’t
There isn’t anyone like Johnny Cash. No one who could command a honky tonk stage as well as one in the middle of a prison. No one who could be married to a star like June Carter and still be ...