Johnny Cash News

St. Cloud Times - 02-02-12

13, my wife and I spontaneously decided to drive to the Cities for the Johnny Cash Tribute (Cash Only VIII) at the Cabooze. Our main reason forgoing was to hear Bob Wootton perform with Six Mile Grove. Wootton was Cash's guitar player for 30 years, ...

Restorations To Begin On Johnny Cash's Boyhood Home

KUAR - 02-02-12

After much planning, work is finally set to begin later this month to restore Johnny Cash's boyhood home in theeastern Arkansas town of Dyess. A ceremony is planned for Sunday, Feb. 26,which would have been Cash's 80th birthday.

Live Music: Johnny Cash tribute mainstay, feel-good festival and Open Mic

San Diego Community Newspaper Group - 02-02-12

Courtesy photo One of the most popularcountry bands in the area, The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash perform at the Caf -Bar Europa on Feb. 3. Fronted by Mark Stuart, the band plays a mix of classic-sounding country tunes like "Texas Sun" - which wouldn ...

Article sparked recall of Johnny Cash in Syracuse

Syracuse.com (blog) - 02-02-12

Bob Stockdale's comments reminded me of the first time I met Johnny Cash. I was working at WSEN radio in the mid-1970s and was backstage at one of his War Memorial concerts. I'm pretty sure it was 1976. Although I had interviewed several country ...

Tommy Hunter hangs up guitar at 75, final tour includes Perth

EMC Perth - 02-02-12

EMC News - He's played music with country legends Johnny Cash, Hank Snow and Roy Acuff and had a television show that spanned nearly 30 years. Now, Tommy Hunter is doing his final tour and will be stopping in Perth on March 9 at 7 pm.

Questions and answers with Richard Sterban of The Oak Ridge Boys

Daily Herald - 02-02-12

Q: Looking back at the history of country music now -- you've actually worked with Johnny Cash and Elvis. What was it like working with them, looking back? A: Prior to joining the Oak Ridge Boys, I sang in a group called JD Sumner and the Stamps ...

Giveaway: Million Dollar Quartetat Walton Arts Center

Fayetteville Flyer - 02-02-12

By Dustin Bartholomew, Staff Writer One night in 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins gathered at Sun Record Studiosin Memphis for a one-time jam session. A Memphis newspaper caught wind of the gathering, and dubbed the ...

Why Non-American English Speakers Sing In An American English Accent (VIDEO)

Huffington Post - 02-02-12

What are two young (born in the 90syoung) Swedish gals doing writing songs titled "Emmylou," after the one and only country singer Emmy Lou Harris and her pals Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash and June Carter, in a style that pays tribute to the legends ...

Cash sings, and is sung to

Philadelphia Inquirer - 02-02-12

That couldn't be said for the songs that Cash sang at SCH Academy, such as her 1981 country hit "Seven Year Ache," which she wrote when she was 23, or "Black Cadillac," composed in 2003 after the death of her father, country giant Johnny Cash.

Disney jacks Joy Division and other great moments in copyright infringement

Westword (blog) - 02-02-12

Johnny Cash and Jim Marshall Jim Marshall's iconic 1969 photo of Johnny Cash flipping off the camera during his legendary performance at San Quentin prison is undoubtedly one of the most badass photos in the entirety of rockhistory.

Johnny Cash Boy Named Sue Demo - YouTube

- 02-02-12

http://www.learn-classic-rock-songs.com/boy_named_sue_lyrics.html ... here is an ole classic ...

Johnny Cash | Bootleg III - LIVE Around the World (Columbia/Legacy)

Play by Play - 02-01-12

Johnny Cash released quite a few albums during his lifetime (his website says he was one of just a few artists to sell over 90 million records) but there's even more in the vault. Those recordings are now being released as part of the Cash Bootleg ...

"Opry" stage that once held Cash and Presley to bereplaced

Chicago Tribune - 02-01-12

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - For six decades the stage supported the likes of Patsy Cline,Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, with the "hillbilly dust" sprinkled across its blonde oak planks adding to the legend of the Grand Ole Opry.

Darling Companion? Try dogged by a sense of impending doom

The Guardian (blog) - 02-01-12

It's namedafter a Johnny Cash song. It's directed by the man behind The Bodyguard. It stars a brace of surprisingly big-name actors. Everything about it suggests that you'll spend the entire third act crying and blowingsnot up and down your sleeve.

Born to Rockabilly Musician draws inspiration from Cash, Lewis and others

Canon City Daily Record - 02-01-12

His inspiration came from Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and numerous other rockabilly musicians. "They just thrilled me to no end," Emery said. "I said Iwanted to play a lead guitar so (my parents) bought me a $29 guitar."To learn to play, ...

RIAA Certifications GoCountry

All Access Music Group - 02-01-12

... Life" were awarded Gold for digital sales of over 500000 copies. Country artist TIM McGRAW's album "NUMBER ONE HITS" received Platinum certification, and Country legend JOHNNY CASH's "BEST OF JOHNNY CASH" reached Gold status after its release in 1991.

Oxy Music: Justified, Episode Three

Grantland (blog) - 02-01-12

And to paraphrase Will Oldham (while thinking of the Johnny Cash version of the song), we see adarkness. Mags Bennet's death has created a vacuum and it's sucking a lot of lawyers criminals, guns and money into the Kentucky.

Music Review: Johnny Cash - Bootleg Volume III: Live Around the World

Blogcritics.org (blog) - 01-31-12

Bootleg Volume III: Live Around the World is a two-disc set of concert material by Johnny Cash, recorded between 1956 and 1979. The majority of the performances (37 of 53 tracks) are previously unreleased. While mostof this material doesn't exactly ...

Jason Edwards to Star in Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash

TheaterMania.com - 01-31-12

By Bethany Rickwald Jan 30, 2012 Los Angeles McCoy Rigby Entertainment and Bill Malone of FX Arts are set to present Ring of Fire: The Music ofJohnny Cash, February 17 and 18 at the Fox Riverside Performing Arts Center. The show is directed by and ...

The Little Willies:for the good times

ABC Online - 01-31-12

By Anne-Marie Middlemast Inspired by country music artists like Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn, The Little Willies deliver their new album For the Good Times. Hailing from New York City, and fronted by Norah Jones along with good friends ...

Listen Up: Leonard Cohen, Gotye, Ruth Foster

USA TODAY - 01-31-12

Foster fashions a stirring blues album from an eclectic set of hymns, originals and covers of the likes of William Bell, Johnny Cash, David Crosby and Adele. She reworks the classic songs so that they sound new. Four tracks with The Blind Boys of ...

Ryman Upgrades with New Stage

NewsChannel5.com - 01-31-12

"This stage has hosted everyone from MaeWest to Louis Armstrong, Johnny Cash and all of the great country music artists," said Brenda Colliday. Since 1951, all the greats stepped across the Ryman's creaky wooden floor stage and took the microphone ...

Buy the Home Where Johnny Cash Spent His Very Last Days ...

By Sarah Firshein - 01-31-12

While not officially on the market, the Hendersonville, Tenn., home where Johnny Cash lived out his life is quietly available forsale. According to Zillow Blog, the house, built by architect Braxton Dickson, was last listed for $595K and is ripely ...

Tennessee Home Where Johnny Cash Lived His Final Days for Sale ...

- 01-31-12

One of the most famous homes in country music -- or any musical genre, given the reach of Johnny Cash's career -- was the home of Cash and his wife,

Saturday Song: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff, Ricky ...

- 01-31-12

Saturday Song: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Johnny Cash, Roy Acuff, Ricky Skaggs, Bruce Hornsby, Michael Martin Murphey,Earl Scruggs, Emmylou Harris, Mark ...