40 years ago: Johnny Cash dropped by Columbia Records after 28-year partnership

Wednesday marked the 40th anniversary of a not-so-great day for this country legend, getting dropped by his record label ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1955, Johnny Cash Released This Iconic Song With Inaccuracies He Would Later Explain With Four Simple Words

A good singer-songwriter tells a story. But a great singer-songwriter makes you believe that what they’re saying comes from true experience. Johnny Cash excelled at this sort of musical embodiment.
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1955, Johnny Cash Recorded His Signature Song “Folsom Prison Blues” for the First Time at Sun Studios in Memphis

On this day (July 30) in 1955, Johnny Cash stepped into the Sun Recording Studio in Memphis, Tennessee to record “Folsom Prison Blues” for the first time. The song would go on to be a major hit for ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

‘Country Boy’ considers Arkansas’s effect on the Man in Black, Johnny Cash

So many things come to mind when we think of Johnny Cash. There is the distinctive sound of his early Sun Records hits; the somber image he cultivated as the Man in Black; his devotion to Christianity ...