Johnny Cash – Four Years On
Today is the 4th anniversary of Johnny Cash’s death at 71 years of age while hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. I just had to put on Johnny Cash at San Quentin really loud…
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The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show – 9/18
From Pitchfork.com – On September 18, CMV/Columbia/Legacy will release The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show, a 2xDVD compiling 66 live performances from the 58 episodes of Johnny Cash’s 1969-1971 “The Johnny Cash Show”.…
Johnny Cash’s First Wife, Vivian, Book Due Sept. 4
Johnny Cash’s first wife, the late Vivian Liberto Distin, will have her book I Walked the Line: My Life With Johnny posthumously released on Sept. 4 by Scribner Books. Before her death in 2005, Vivian…
Pop Matter DVD Review – Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music
Popmatters.com has an excellent review of Robert Elfstrom’s documentary Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, and His Music (1969). The film highlights Cash at his career pinnacle and looks back at his upbringing in rural…
Johnny Cash’s “The Great Lost Performance” to Be Released July 24, 2007
A first-ever release of a performance by the Man in Black at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, New Jersey on July 27, 1990 will be released as “Johnny Cash – The Great Lost Performance”…
Country Radio Lives!
Just got back from seeing the family in Dallas for the 4th. While tooling around in Mom’s Merc I checked out the local flavor and tuned into Lone Star 92.5, the Clear Channel radio station…
Lost Along The Way
Recently I posted that music industry gadfly Bob Lefsetz has recently discovered mainstream country radio on satellite radio. And he’s been posting them a big sloppy one ever since (Ooooo little Big Town , how…
Austin’s Mean Eyed Cat needs your help
Thanks to the 9513 for putting this on my radar. Inspired by the Johnny Cash song of the same name, Austin’s one-of-a-kind Mean Eyed Cat bar is facing possible closure. The property that the bar…
Johnny Cash Final Performance – July 2003
Two months before he passed. Sad but beautiful. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYFmQK2nOoU
Lone Star 92.5
Has Clear Channel lost it’s little rigid, corporate mind? The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram’s Cary Darling (great name!) has an interesting article on a local radio station with went from the old tried-and-true classic radio format…