On Thursday, March 28th, Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives and Connie Smith will perform at Philadelphia, Mississippi’s Ellis Theatre, the future site of The Marty Stuart Congress of Country Music, ahead of a special screening of Ken Burns’s upcoming 16-hour documentary series, “Country Music.” Following the screening, there will be an audience Q&A with […]
When Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash passed, they left behind undiscovered material that includes Johnny Cash’s handwritten letters, poems, and documents, that spans across his whole life. Over the past two years, album producers John Carter Cash, son of Johnny and June, and Steve Berkowitz invited a star-studded line-up of musicians to create music […]
In 1996, Johnny Cash recorded a cover of Soundgarden’s hit “Rusty Cage,” written by frontman Chris Cornell, on his Grammy-winning album ‘Unchained.’ Twenty years later, Cornell wrote the next chapter in this unique musical relationship by setting a newly discovered poem of Cash’s to music, to create the stunning all-new song “You Never Knew My […]
Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release “Johnny Cash: Forever Words”…a collaborative album consisting of songs created from Johnny Cash’s unknown poetry, lyrics, and letters set to music by an astounding array of contemporary artists…on Friday, April 6th. “Johnny Cash: Forever Words” will be available on CD, 2LP Vinyl and Digital formats…pre-order the album here. […]
We were fortunate enough to meet up with Rosanne Cash backstage at a recent performance/reading at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, and she was gracious enough to sign a couple of copies of her book for us despite our incoherent and fawning blather. One book will go into our archives and the other will […]
Rosanne Cash, firstborn child of country music icon Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian, was a writer long before she became a musician, singer and songwriter. A light went on with the assignment of a seventh-grade English project for which she created an original metaphor. When revisiting that moment in time Cash writes, “I […]
By Joseph Scott Charlie Haden’s place in music history is secure. As the bassist with Ornette Coleman on the avant-garde masterpiece The Shape of Jazz to Come, Mr. Haden’s “harmelodic” style of bass playing broke new ground and shed new light on just what could be done on an upright bass. Charlie’s work on the […]
