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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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Friday Five: Country Stars and Their Cars
They just don’t make cars—or country singers—like they used to.
5. “Ol’ Webb’s Bullhorn Pontiac” – Gin Palace Jesters
There are countless Nudie suits floating around out there, but only a few Nudie cars. Webb Pierce’s ‘62 Bonneville was decorated with over 300 silver dollars, six-shooters, and longhorns. The unabashedly old school Gin Palace Jesters, fronted by [...]Continue reading "Friday Five: Country Stars and Their Cars"
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Michael Martin Murphey Inks Multi-Album Deal; Josh Turner’s Groovin’ Video; Corb Lund Acoustic
Michael Martin Murphey signed a multi-album contract with Rural Rhythm Records during last week’s IBMA convention and will release his second set of bluegrass tunes, Buckaroo Blue Grass 2, next February. The first single is a remake of “Wildfire” as a duet with Carrie Hassler.
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The Best of Johnny Cash: The Man In Black’s 15 Most Essential Songs
For the first installment of our brand new feature, The 9513’s Best Of… series, we’ve put our heads together and endured the harrowing process of paring down the entire Johnny Cash catalog to a list of his 15 most essential recordings.
Neither a Greatest Hits list nor personal musings on our “favorite” tracks, this new [...]Continue reading "The Best of Johnny Cash: The Man In Black’s 15 Most Essential Songs"
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Forgotten Artists: Narvel Felts
Give Me The Beat Boys and Free My Soul
I Want To Get Lost In Your Country Song
And Drift Away
Sam Phillips’ Sun Studios in Memphis had quite a coterie of performers during the mid 1950s: Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Harold Lloyd Jenkins (aka Conway Twitty), Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, Carl Mann, Warren Smith, [...] -
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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