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A video of the Highwaymen appearing on a talk show in 1991 has been making the rounds on social media since the 2024 presidential election, not because of any song they sang, but because of what they said. At least three members of the country supergroup called out the good …

Somewhere out there is a recording of Billy Bob Thornton and Johnny Cash playing Cash’s 1958 song “I Still Miss Someone” together. In a new interview with The Guardian, Thornton revealed that he collaborated with Cash on the tune, but it has never been released. The actor answered a series …

He’s just a boy from the north country — Hibbing, Minnesota, to be exact, though trust us, you do not want to get caught up in the facts here — in the back of a station wagon, hitchin’ a ride to New York City in search of a hero and …

This story was originally published May 20, 2016, on rollingstone.com. When the Highwaymen recorded “Desperados Waiting for a Train,” written by visionary songwriter Guy Clark,who died in 2016, the supergroup of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson landed on their most poignant song. While Jimmy Webb’s “Highwayman” …

Let’s say that, in January of 1972, you had never heard a note of Kris Kristofferson‘s music. You didn’t know the former helicopter pilot and Rhodes scholar had written “Me and Bobby McGee,” which Janis Joplin had turned into her signature song. Or “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” which he gave …

Johnny Cash will become the first professional musician to receive a statue in the U.S. Capitol. The likeness of the Man in Black will be unveiled during a morning ceremony at the Capitol’s Emancipation Hall on Sept. 24 and become part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. Each U.S. state …

Tommy Cash, country singer and brother of the late music icon Johnny Cash, has died at the age of 84. The Johnny Cash Museum confirmed Tommy’s death in a statement Saturday, “We are saddened to announce that the world lost a bright light last evening with the passing of Tommy …

On the cover of American Recordings, Johnny Cash‘s stunning 1994 comeback album, the Man in Black stands squarely between Sin and Redemption — literally, since that’s what he named the black-and-white dogs that flank him as he glares into your soul. At the time, he also felt between sin and …

Johnny Cash has a new posthumous release out Friday called “Spotlight,” featuring guitar parts from the Black Keys‘ Dan Auerbach. “Spotlight” is the second single released ahead of Cash’s upcoming album Songwriter, comprised of demos Cash wrote over several years and recorded at Nashville’s LSI Studios in 1993. Cash’s son, …

A new posthumous Johnny Cash album, Songwriter, filled with previously unreleased tunes written and performed by the Man in Black is set to arrive June 28 via Mercury Nashville/UMe. The 11-track collection features songs Cash had written over many years, then finally put to tape during a demo session at …