Johnny Cash’s Vault Opens – Revelatory, stripped-down tapes from the early 1970s discovered in archive: “Personal File delivers a Cash even his most devoted fans have never heard before: at the height of his career and vocal power, telling the story of his life in music, as if he were sitting across from you.”
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Johnny Cash Auction
Sotheby’s is selling a bunch of amazing stuff from the estate of June Carter and Johnny Cash.
Johnny Cash mugshot
Johnny Cash’s mugshot from a 1965 drug bust.
Rick Rubin on Cash’s Legacy
Rick Rubin on Cash’s Legacy – discusses upcoming box set.
O Death, Where Is Thy Sting? O Grave, Where Is Thy Victory?
I originally wrote this piece in November 2002 as a review of The Man Comes Around for Doog Magazine. It is reproduced here with permission from Doog.
Johnny Cash is on his way out. He is dying. But so are you. And so am I. We all are.
Rock and roll is rife with tales of death and mortality. Hank Williams said it best with “I’ll never get out of this world alive.” And then Jim Morrison paraphrased this sentiment with “No one here gets out alive.” Both of those guys were dead by thirty. But Johnny Cash has lived to be an old man. He’ll turn 126 this year and he just released the fourth album in his American Recordings series, produced by Rick Rubin.
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Cash’s American Outtakes Unearthed
Johnny Cash to release 5-disc collection of outtakes from his American recordings! Wow.