News Round Up: Happy Birthday J.R. Cash
On this day in 1932 Johnny Cash was born J. R. Cash in Kingsland, Arkansas, to Ray (1897–1985) and Carrie Cash (1904–1991) Johnny Cash scholars are lobbying Sony records to release Cash’s 1964 album Bitter…
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News Round Up: New Johnny Cash Recording in February
The big for fans of the Man In Black is that Rick Rubin’s American Records will release American VI: Ain’t No Grave, the final volume in the American series that helped revitalize Johnny Cash’s career…
News Round Up: New Roky Erickson/Okkervil River in April
The Rick Rubin produced American recording done by Johnny Cash near the end of his life featured some inspired covers (most famous being the cover of Trent Reznor’s Hurt on 2002’s album, American IV: The…
News Round Up: Re-releases from Waylon Jennings / New Release from Hank Williams
Country music legend George Jones seems to be popping up on all the TV shows recently to promote his new Cracker Barrel exclusive album, A Collection of My Best Recollection. This Sunday morning the Possum…
News Round Up: Jamey Johnson Pays Respect
Country Music Neo-Outlaw Jamey Johnson shows his respect for the classics by covering Vern Gosdin, George Jones, George Strait and, his most obvious influence, Waylon Jennings, at the Chicago Country Music Festival. Break out a…
News Round Up: Country Music Is Dead (RIP Johnny Cash)
Has the monetary success of Miranda Lambert and Jamey Johnson allowed mainstream Nashvegas artists, Like Tim McGraw, to explore their dark side? (Country’s Raw Side: Don’t Like It? Tough! – New York Times) The 9513’s…
Happy Labor Day – Top 10
Labor Day originated in Canada from labor unions fighting for a nine-house work day. The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City as a result…
News Round Up: Jerry Lee Lewis Gets Mean with Kris Kristofferson
Hey Bay Area twang fans! The San Francisco Weekly features a story on Joe Goldmark and the Seducers and their ongoing Sunday night residency at the Outer Sunset bar Riptide which bills itself as “the…
News Round Up: Johnny Cash Graphic Novel & Do You Look Like Tanya Tucker?
PopMatters.cam has 20 questions for Austin’s neo-trad honky-tonker Wayne “The Train” Hancock. Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness, ia a new comic book/graphic novel by Abrams ComicArts based on the life of Johnny Cash. It…
News Round Up: Willie Twitters & A New Langhorne Slim Download
Check out the “twitterview” – a cute way of describing an interview conducted on twitter – between TheBoot.com and Willie Nelson as was gearing up for his MySpace free secret concert in Maui, Hawaii. Speaking…