On this day (August 22) in 1964, Johnny Cash took out a full-page ad in Billboard to take disc jockeys, as well as the managers and owners of radio stations across the country, because they refused to ...
Long before he was singing “Ring of Fire,” country music icon Johnny Cash served in the military during The Cold War.
American musical icon Johnny Cash was at a career highpoint and in the middle of a successful tour of Scandinavia in 1971, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Johnny Cash's cover of Depeche Mode's smash "Personal Jesus" earns the late superstar a new top 10 hit on two Billboard charts this week. 1957: Country singer/songwriter Johnny Cash performs onstage ...
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.