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A Conversation with Music Author Alan Light
by Nenad Georgievski
It is not an overstatement to label music journalist and writer Alan Light as one of the premier biographers and music historians. Light's heralded books include The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of Hallelujah," Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain," The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys," What Happened, Miss Simone?" and the recently published illustrated biography of Johnny Cash Johnny Cash: The Life ...
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by Nenad Georgievski
Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in Black Alan Light 216 Pages ISBN: 1588346390 Smithsonian Books 2018 In recent years, there hasn't been a shortage of books and documentaries on the subject of late singer and songwriter Johnny Cash. During his lifetime, Cash himself wrote two autobiographies and his wife and children wrote their memoirs and there are plenty of books that have explored his legacy. Since his death in ...
read moreJohnny Cash: Johnny Cash: American VI: Ain't No Grave
by C. Michael Bailey
In his tribute to Johnny Cash on the artist's death in 2003, commentator and VH1 Executive Director Bill Flanagan put forth this bit of wisdom on the CBS program Sunday Morning: It's becoming more apparent with every year that goes by that the period from the mid-'50s to the mid-'70s was a golden age for popular music. To have lived in the era where Cash and Presley and the Beatles and Stones and Aretha and Dylan and Miles Davis were ...
read moreJohnny Cash Family Condemns Neo-Nazi Use Of Father's Image
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HypeBot
The family of Johnny Cash have demanded that Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups not associate the image of their late father with the discriminatory ideas. In an open letter posted to Roseanne Cash's Facebook page, the family took issue with a protester during the confrontation in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend who appeared in a video wearing a Johnny Cash t- shirt. We were alerted to a video of a young man in Charlottesville, a self-proclaimed neo-Nazi, spewing hatred ...
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Johnny Cash to be Celebrated with "We Walk the Line" Concert April 20th
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Sony Music Entertainment/Legacy
JOHNNY CASH TO BE CELEBRATED WITH WE WALK THE LINE: A CELEBRATION OF THE MUSIC OF JOHNNY CASH" IN HONOR OF HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY Concert Will Feature a Star-Studded Lineup Including Kenny Chesney, Kris Kristofferson, Chris Cornell, Ronnie Dunn, John Hiatt, Amy Lee, Shooter Jennings, Lucinda Williams, Ray LaMontagne, and Jamey Johnson with more Legendary Surprise Guests to be Announced LOS ANGELES, CA: On April 20, 2012, music stars and friends will join together to celebrate the life of Johnny ...
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Google Music Marketing: Will.I.AM on Hangouts, the Johnny Cash Project and Chrome
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HypeBot
With yesterday's looming debut of new Facebook features and partnerships, it's no wonder that Google+ opened to the general public on Wednesday. That introduction included a shaky Hangouts session with will.i.am but that's just one example of how Google is currently marketing new services with music products, including their Chrome browser and even Google Music Beta. The Johnny Cash Project: Ain't No Grave Wednesday evening, ...
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Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (2006)
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Something Else!
By Derrick Lord Four large letters printed across the top of a black and white photo on a CD cover: CASH. A picture of him sitting quietly, microphone hanging before him, head bowed, eyes closed and listening to the music track over headphones. Waiting for his cue to sing, it is hard to tell if the expression on his face is one of humility, impatience, reverence or disappointment. But was it ever really possible to tell with Johnny Cash? The ...
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Johnny Cash: Bootleg Vol. 2
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you've ever been down South and driven the Interstates shoulder to shoulder with eight-wheelers or stopped for a chicken lunch and sweet tea at a diner filled with locals, then you surely already appreciate the soul of Johnny Cash. If you haven't done any of this, Cash will leave an impression on you if you give him a chance. Unlike Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis or the other slickers who came out of Memphis in the mid-1950s ...
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Crowdsourced Art Fuels the Johnny Cash Project
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HypeBot
The Johnny Cash Project is an online collective art project that utilizes crowdsourced art to produce a video for Johnny Cash's Ain't No Grave," his final studio recording. The goal of the project is to create a moving, ever evolving homage to their beloved musical icon. Thus far, they have done an amazing job and as new people discover and contribute to the project, the video will continue to transform and grow. Take a look below:
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Previously Unreleased Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters Features Never-Before-Heard Ray Charles / Johnny Cash duet
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Arlene Garcia
Concord Records is proud to announce the release of Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters, an incredible collection of newly discovered Ray Charles recordings. The tracks embody the remarkable breadth of musical styles that were synonymous with this classic American artist. In 2009, after six months of sifting and sorting through four decades worth of demos and other previously unissued material at Charles' R.P.M. International studios on Los Angeles' Washington Boulevard, Concord Music Group's executive vice president of A&R, John Burk, ...
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Unearthed Ray Charles Rarities Set for Oct. 26 Release on Concord; Johnny Cash Duet
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CHC Network
THE GENIUS IS BACK Unreleased Ray Charles Recordings Are Focus Of Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters Oct. 26 Concord Records Release Features Surprise Duet With Johnny Cash LOS ANGELES, Calif. Concord Records is celebrating the 80th birthday of the legendary Ray Charles with a special gift for his legions of fans: Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters. This treasure trove of newly discovered recordings, highlighted by a duet with fellow icon Johnny Cash, will become available at ...
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Johnny Cash: The Hospice Sessions
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Michael Ricci
On 'Ain't No Grave,' it's a vulnerable Johnny Cash, accepting his physical state and making the best of it. Anyone who has lived with the decline of a loved one will feel the raw emotion.
Let me tell you a story about my dad and Johnny Cash. Many American music lovers of a certain age could spin out such a connection; Cash is primary among artists who represent the tough psyche of the post-war patriarchal male, his music exposing the ...
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Final Johnny Cash Volume
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JamBase
JOHNNY CASH'S AMERICAN RECORDINGS ALBUM SERIES CONCLUDES WITH IV RELEASE
Johnny Cash American VI: Ain't No Grave, the sixth and final installment of Johnny Cash's critically-acclaimed American Recordings album series, will be officially released on February 26 (American Recordings/Lost Highway), the day that would have been The Man in Black's 78th birthday. As with the previous five albums in the American Recordings series, American VI was produced by Rick Rubin.
American VI is deeply elegiac and spiritual, with each song ...
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