So many words spilled, already. All this wrestling with the body of work Johnny Cash left behind, for it is all we have left, and, like the songs of his friend Merle Haggard, it contains multitudes. Indeed, it is possible […]
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At the time these four albums were originally released, Johnny Cash was in his 50s, already having weathered countless changes in the musical marketplace over the decades since his defining emergence in the 1950s. Each of these titles tries to […]
“Hello, I’m Pure Charisma.” That might as well have been Johnny Cash’s self-introduction from 1959 to ’67, when these new reissues first appeared. One of 1958’s hotter acts, with hits extending from “I Walk The Line” through “Ballad Of A […]
It’s always been tempting to dismiss Johnny Cash’s so-called “patriotic-themed” albums — he recorded several for Columbia — as little more than cartoonish curiosities. Who wouldn’t rather hear Cash sing “Big River” or “Folsom Prison Blues” than recite the Gettysburg […]
It is a long-established romantic conceit of country music and its audience that the singer is a simple, unsophisticated soul untouched by modern urban catastrophe, who touches us by serving up American innocence on a platter. Johnny Cash is not […]
It’d take a real “stop the presses!” type of thang to shock the fans of Johnny Cash at this point, but that doesn’t mean news of The Man In Black’s own career overview shouldn’t worry up some attention. Ol’ John […]
Johnny Cash didn’t shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, and though he spent a few nights in jail, he never went to prison. Except for January 13, 1968, to record At Folsom Prison and, in February […]
It’s the K.I.S.S. formula (not the rock band, but “keep it simple, stupid”) — two stools, two guitars, and two of country’s biggest superstars playing live in a casual, acoustic setting, a pair of old friends swapping songs and stories. […]
If there’s a voice that spans the imagined gulf between country music and rock, it belongs to Johnny Cash. Not because he started out at Sun Records, roomed with Waylon, married June Carter, booked rock stars on his variety show, […]
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