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Johnny Cash: Years in the Wilderness
The story of Johnny Cash has been told and retold so many times and in so many forms over the past 15 years that it has accrued as much legend as fact. In two autobiographies, numerous histories and critical studies, a Hollywood biopic and even a graphic novel, the major events of his life become [...]
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Album Review: Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison Legacy Edition
Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.
More than forty years after Johnny Cash first uttered his famous greeting to kick off his concert at Folsom State Prison in January 1968, the recordings have finally been released in their entirety with At Folsom Prison: The Legacy Edition, a two CD, one DVD box.
Cash played two sets for the [...]Continue reading "Album Review: Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison Legacy Edition"
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Johnny Cash, An Appreciation
The recent release of the complete Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison concerts seems an ideal time to assess Johnny Cash’s importance to the world of Country Music.
Make no mistake about it: Johnny Cash was a huge commercial success, despite his own apparent lack of concern about how commercial his music was at any given [...]
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As the title track off his upcoming album, “Better Than I Used to Be” is a straight-up look back on the career of a country music staple.
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In each and every instance, the best country albums of the past ten years were built on the backs of songs -- stories about you and me from birth to death and stories that paint landscapes rooted in every region of America and beyond. These are the top country albums of the decade.Current Discussion
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- Mayor JoBob: Actually Rick, in Randy Travis' song, he tells them to "bury me under mama's apple tree"
- real talk: some of you people are being ridiculous, this song was specifically written for the radio, and its going to do ...
- TexasVet: Actually, her fans in defending it are trying to convince us that writing this bad is a specific FORM of ...
- TexasVet: According to Billboard, two of her singles went to #2 while the last one peaked at #3. If you are referring ...
- Rick: Altough burial is not in the title, my vote goes to Doug Supernaw's "Honky Tonkin' Fool" about a friend who ...
- Stormy: K: Actually, her fans in defending it are trying to convince us that writing this bad is a specific FORM of ...
- Ron: I couldn't make it to the end. Horrid.
- Steve M.: According to Billboard, two of her singles went to #2 while the last one peaked at #3.
