Despite there being many Johnny Cash songs about failing and being down on your luck, that certainly wasn't true when it came to the singer's career. From the second his debut album — With His Hot and ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Johnny Cash historian Mark Stielper and Cash's son, John Carter Cash, on their book, Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics and the Man in Black's legacy as a songwriter.

On the other side of Johnny Cash‘s more intense songs like “Folsom Prison Blues,” the apocalyptic “The Man Comes Around,” “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” or “Cocaine Blues,” were more amusing stories of ...

Johnny Cash was on another level. He was a go-to outlaw country singer and songwriter who made a whole brand out of being an all-black-wearing crooner who performed at prisons. That core identity ...

Very few people would have guessed that we’d be getting an album of previously unreleased original material from Johnny Cash in 2024 — a collection that really feels like a “new” album from the ...

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 ...