A Christmas dinner that the Cash family never forgot is now getting the documentary treatment. A&E recently announced the order of "Johnny Cash: The Man Comes Around," which is set to be a two-hour ...

In the cultural landscape of midcentury America, few transformations were as subtly seismic as the slow, sometimes reluctant, elevation of country music into the national consciousness. The genre, ...

Johnny Cash didn’t just sing country music; he was country music. We need not explain why that is the case, but the bottom line is that Johnny Cash was and always will be the epitome of country music.

There is a lot about Johnny Cash that is recognizable. There’s his low country voice, black wardrobe, country twang, and his songs about hard-working folks. It’s a combination of all those things that ...

Of his many timeless hits, one rose above the rest. Billboard ranked Johnny Cash’s 1956 classic “I Walk the Line” at No. 5 on its 100 Best Country Songs of All Time list, just behind George Jones’ “He ...

I love to visit the boyhood homes of famous people because it says a lot about the person to see where they came from. In the case of Johnny Cash, a visit to his home was more than just a walk through ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Next in our series of interviews on R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll, we have my 1997 interview with Johnny Cash, one of country music's most influential ...

Cash was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1997 about his career, from touring with Elvis to singing at prisons. He died in 2003.