Johnny Cash

 OH The slowing of the tempos take a bit of time to adjust to; it's music of Johnny Cash by way of James Taylor. It's creative and a different take of the man in black. Right off the bat, the album starts off on a great foot. “I Walk the Line” instantly ...

By Diesel Next up was Live. The York, Pennsylvania band took to the stage to the adoring fans most of which were introduced to them in the 90s. “I Alone” and “Lightning Crashes” seemed to bring the most out of the fans. Moms and Dads who used to rock out to them before they got married and had a mortgage threw...

By Al Barger One of several centerpieces is "Committed to Parkview." Johnny Cash wrote this song some 25 years ago on learning that he and Porter had both spent time in the same Nashville nuthouse. Cash apparently recorded it with the Highwaymen, but this is Porter's first recording. It's decent as a mel...

By Richard Marcus All of which makes the arrival of Folk Uke on the scene all the more timely. You'd be harder to come by better credentials for a folk duo then Amy Nelson and Cathy Guthrie considering their parentage and heritage, and their debut album, Folk Uke, does nothing to dispel that belief.

By Glen Boyd So here it is. The night I went to the Hollywood record release party for Mick Jagger's solo album Wandering Spirit, produced by my boss at the time Rick Rubin. Sadly, that "arrival" was never meant to be. Some three years later, I left L.A., American Recordings, and my career in the music busines...

By Ian Woolstencroft Unlike the Earle gig in the same series, Yoakam takes time to chat with the audience, treating them to his (pretty awful) Johnny Cash impression as he reminisces about meeting the legend, before launching into a cover of "Home Of The Blues." He also regales them with his views on why woman ar...

By Nancy Dunham While Witherspoon’s portrayal of Carter Cash in the recent movie “Ring of Fire” was admirable, Anchored in Love, the 11-track tribute CD to Carter Cash, is the true testament to her legacy. After Carter Cash died in 2003, John Carter Cash, the only child of June and Johnny, set out to pay tri...

By Christopher Rose To launch the series, Christopher presents the first half of a two-part interview with one of the more interesting people out there, one Chris Carpenter, a young American who has gone from working as a waiter in Salt Lake City to living his fantasy beach bum freestyle life in Mexico throug...

By Chris Beaumont That brings me to one more track from disk one that is worth mentioning, "Come to Silver." It is a haunting acoustic track that Glenn had originally written for Johnny Cash, but issues between Glenn and American Records prevented the Man in Black from recording it. It is a dark song that I can i...

By Lisa Alvarado You try to sing along too to something rhinestone but you get the words wrong. Your Papi lights up, a tobacco puff blows your way, fragrant like cinnamon. He does not look at you; instead, he looks around at everything he’ll never own, though he signed for it.

By T. Michael Testi With the release of Nashville Skyline, Dylan, building off his last album John Wesley Harding, went mainstream country instead of the rural folk that many others of the day did. During this time he worked with friend and label mate Johnny Cash. It was during this time that they did some duets...

By Jon Sobel Back in the present day, and up the Hudson a bit, singer-songwriter Charlotte Kendrick and her producer-collaborator husband, Dan Rowe, craft elegant, breathy folk-Americana tunes which Kendrick sings in a velvety voice that's soothing like a soft sofa after a long hard day.

By Richard Marcus First of all there are the people who were interviewed for this book; starting with Arlo Guthrie who wrote the foreword and Studs Terkel who wrote the preface and then proceeding down the line to Steve Martin (Yes the Steve Martin) Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Rait, Jackson Brown, Randy Ne...

By Big Geez His "Guitar Boogie" sold nearly three million copies - an enormous number for that era - and helped propel him to a long and successful career that included his own TV show. He wrote over 500 songs, including another Top Ten hit, "Boomerang", and also supplied songs to many other singers. (On...

By Big Geez As his fans can confirm, Boots has actually been pretty busy in all the years since that era when he and Chet Atkins were the two biggest instrumental stars of country music. He's continued to perform live in various spots, including the successful nightclub he owned for a long time in Nashv...

By Benjamin Cossel So what would you do if one of your best friends, who also happened to be a famous Hollywood personality, invited you to a famous location to record your next album? If you’re Dale Watson and that friend happens to be Johnny Knoxville and the location in question is the Man in Black’s very own...

By Richard Marcus Back in the early 1970's there was a rebirth of sorts that happened in Rock and Roll music in the United States. Rock and Roll got its birth in the United States in the South when people like Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis started to combine the country music they grew up listening to, with the Blues m...

By El Bicho Like a ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds on a balmy London afternoon, "Charlene" rekindles the fire that ignites the spirit. "The Message" follows and is another song of hope and faith, which brings a tear to the eye and a smile to the face. "Hold Tight" is one of those fighting songs...

By Gordon Hauptfleisch …Stay tuned for more. With Traffic and Weather, manic pop thrill-meisters Fountains of Wayne continue their dependable track-by-track record of pure pop for now people, with more witty vignettes and incisive character studies set to hook-filled pop-rock delirium. But as solidly infe...

By Scott Butki Tuesday I was going to tell him that I learned that some human named Ani DiFranco wrote a song about us fish, but then I wondered if he'd just get upset because he can't hear the song due to our cheap, evil poor owner refusing our Christmas requests for matching waterproof stereos.

By Al Barger Contemporary Country, Country-Rock Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock Antelope Reflector Dischord American Underground, Indie Rock Che Arthur Iron Sickroom Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Grunge David Ball Heartaches by the Number Shanachie Contemporary Country

By Simon Barrett I am pretty sure that Elvis Costello has never played the Grand Ole Opry, but he does sing a very fine version of "Ring Of Fire," a song that most people associate with Johnny Cash, yet it was June that actually wrote it. According to the sleeve notes Elvis Costello was a close friend of the fami...

By Diane Kristine You won't find albums by Avril Levigne or Beyonce, but you will find a wide variety of popular artists on indie labels, like Arcade Fire, Snow Patrol, Metric, Stars, Sufjan Stevens, Badly Drawn Boy, and even Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Van Morrison, Ray Charles, and Creedence Clearwater R...

By Simon Barrett Until fairly recently I was not a big Johnny Cash fan, but there is something about his voice that just grows on you. He is the epitome of traditional country music. His style is so unique that even I, a country music neophyte, can spot a Johnny song from 3 miles away!

By Timothy Jarrett Turning, then, to review Josh Haden's first proper solo album, a self-released affair called Devoted, one must ask: are the songs still slow? Is the country twang still there? Are any of them not love songs? In other words, what's new?

By Lisa McKay What do you wish they'd do a series about on TV? Sobel on Sobel Two of my favorites are among my more personal essays: All I Really Need to Know I Learned from John Hiatt Lyrics and Indie-Cision 2006: An American In Nashville. They were both a lot of fun to do.

By Brandon Daviet The 24 tracks on the album encompass four decades, beginning with some of the gospel tracks Cash recorded for the legendary Sun Records in the fifties. Among these early gems are a soul stirring rendition of “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and the gospel masterpiece “This Old Account.” Both song...

By El Bicho My personal favorite is Lorne Green’s “Five Card Stud,” a country song that he talks through rather than sings. He narrates an amusing story about a stranger and a young cowboy, reminiscent of Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue.” It has great novelty appeal that would be right at home on Dr. Dement...

By Stephen V Funk 18] Johnny Cash: Personal FileIt's been a big year for posthumous Johnny Cash releases, including the warm campfire glow of the (not quite) final Rick Rubin-produced American recordings and the tenth-or-so reissue of the now really complete (honest!) Live at San Quentin. The mother lo...

By Modern Pea Pod God, I've never seen anything like it," producer Bob Johnston recalls in the liner notes to Columbia/Legacy's deluxe reissue of Johnny Cash At San Quentin. "When Cash sang 'San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell,' they were on the tables yelling. A lot of the guards were up on the runways wi...

By DJ Freq A lot of things have been said about Walk the Line, which is to be expected since it was one of the most talked about movies of the year. My fellow Blogcritics were among those offering their input: The movie was designed to destroy the man. Cash's humanly faults become the movie, and the movie e...