Johnny Cash

Punk Remembrance 

Jon Langford Remembers Chris Bailey

April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 Jon Langford 0 Comments Chris Bailey, Down on the Farm Festival, Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire, The Mekons, The Saints

Mekons founder fondly recalls the great Aussie leader of The Saints

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Country and/or Western Remembrance 

He Heard The Train A-Comin’: Johnny Cash at 90

February 26, 2022February 26, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 90th Birthday, American Recordings, Country Music, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Marty Stuart, Shel Silverstein, The Man In Black

Looking back on the one-of-a-kind career of The Man In Black

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Power Pop 

Video Premiere: Jeffrey Dean Foster Shares New Single

December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 Ron Hart 0 Comments David Bowie, Don Dixon, Hunky Dory, I'm Starting To Bleed, Jeffrey Dean Foster, Johnny Cash, Video Premiere, When Was The Last Time

The North Carolina power pop laureate looks back through the picture tube of on “When Was The Last Time”

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Country and/or Western Folk Remembrance 

Remembering Nanci Griffith: A Love Light Lost

August 16, 2021March 29, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 2 Comments Bob Dylan, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, Pete Seeger, Richard Thompson, Sandy Denny, Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson

Reflections on the loss of an American country-folk poet

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Rock 

Robbie Robertson Remembers 

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Garth Hudson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Levon Helm, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, The Band, The Everly Brothers

With the release of a sprawling Stage Fright box set, the Canadian guitar icon relives The Band’s legacy

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Folk Rock 

Another Prine Makes It Two of a Kind

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 2 Comments A Place I Used To Know, Billy Prine, Bob Dylan, Elizabeth Cotton, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Oh Boy Records

John’s younger brother Billy makes it known that he can make music of his own

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Rock 

The Killer at 85!

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment Bill Clinton, Billy F Gibbons, Bonnie Raitt, Chris Janson, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Great Balls of Fire, Jacob Tolliver, James Burton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Phillips, Jimmy Swaggart, Joe Walsh, Johnny Cash, Lee Ann Womack, Linda Gail Lewis, Lindsay Ell, Marty Stuart, Mickey Gilley, Mike Love, Priscilla Presley, Roy Orbison, The Beach Boys, Tom Jones, Willie Nelson, Wink Martindale

No one thought Jerry Lee Lewis would be the last man standing, least of all Jerry Lee Lewis

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Country and/or Western 

Strangers When We Met: Merle Haggard’s Debut Album at 55

October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 Mitchell Cohen 1 Comment 1965, Bakersfield Sound, Johnny Cash, Liz Anderson, Merle Haggard, Merle Haggard and the Strangers, Strangers, The Byrds. The Everly Brothers

Looking back at the opening salvo of the country great’s vast musical canon

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Country and/or Western Remembrance 

We Got Hooked on Mac Davis

October 1, 2020October 3, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Bobby Goldsboro, Bruno Mars, Cheaper to Keep Her, Conway Twitty, Dolly Parton, Frank Sinatra, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, King of the Hill, Lou Rawls, Mac Davis, Merle Haggard, Murder She Wrote, North Dallas Forty, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, Tammy Wynette, The Muppets, The Sting II, Webster

The iconic country singer, songwriter and actor dead at age 78

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Blues Folk Rock 

Is Rough and Rowdy Ways A Beginning or an End for Bob Dylan? 

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 Tim Sommer 4 Comments 2020, Bob Dylan, Bob Wills, Columbia Records, Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Rough and Rowdy Ways, Sinatra, The Never Ending Tour

Reckoning with Dylan’s forthcoming double LP against the future of the Never Ending Tour

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Radio 

Rockin’ Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Revisited

April 26, 2020April 26, 2020 Jim Sullivan 1 Comment Bloodrock, Carole King, Chuck Berry, Desmond Dekker and The Aces, Jane Birkin, Johnny Cash, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Radio, Serge Gainsbourg, The Ramones

Jim Sullivan recounts 10 songs outside of rock that defined the FM airwaves for him

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Country and/or Western Pop Remembrance Rock 

The Gambler Leaves the Table

March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 Meghan Roos 0 Comments Country Music Awards, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Islands In The Stream, Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, RIP, The Gambler

Kenny Rogers died on March 20 at age 81

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Country and/or Western Rock Roots 

Come On, Pilgrim: The Odyssey Of A Marty Stuart Masterpiece

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 Robert Baird 0 Comments 1999, Carter Family, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Lefty Frizzell, Marty Stuart, Patsy Cline, The Pilgrim

New coffee table book gives a “wall-to-wall” look into the singer’s star-studded, ill-fated 1999 LP

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Country and/or Western Folk Rock 

Bob Dylan, The Nashville Cat

November 11, 2019November 12, 2019 Lee Zimmerman 1 Comment 1967–1969, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, Bob Johnston, Earl Scruggs, Folsom Prison Blues, Girl from the North Country, I Threw it All Away, Johnny Cash, Living the Blues, Nashville Skyline, Ring of Fire, The Story of Traveling Thru, Travelin' Thru, Travelin' Thru: The Bob Dylan Bootleg Series Vol. 15, Video Travelin' Thru, Vol. 15 1967-1969

The latest entry in the Bootleg Series finds the Bard sharing country comforts with Earl Scruggs and Johnny Cash

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North Americana 

Chris Knight Rises

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Jason Scott 0 Comments Almost Daylight, Chris Knight, Decca Records, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Lee Ann Womack, Thirty Tigers

The Kentucky-based Americana vet proves his staying power on Almost Daylight

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