About & Credits

About the Johnny Cash Infocenter

The Johnny Cash Infocenter is an independent, non-commercial research archive dedicated to documenting Johnny Cash’s work and the history surrounding it. Founded in 2007, the site brings together live shows, tour dates, setlists, recordings, sessions, songs, albums, articles, interviews, books, film and television appearances, awards, source material, and related historical context.

The archive is built for fans, researchers, writers, collectors, musicians, and anyone who wants to explore the Man in Black in more detail. It is not an official website and is not affiliated with the Johnny Cash estate, record labels, publishers, or rights holders.

Mission

The goal is simple: make the history discoverable. The Infocenter connects dates, places, performances, recordings, personnel, releases, articles, images, and source material in one searchable archive.

A major part of this work is fact-checking. Many details about Johnny Cash have been repeated for years across books, websites, databases, and fan pages. Some are accurate; others are incomplete, misdated, misunderstood, or simply wrong. The Infocenter works to compare claims against source material and update the archive when better evidence is found.

What we document

• Live shows & tour dates — concerts, venues, locations, setlists, cancellations, source material, and performance context.
• Recordings & sessions — studio sessions, takes, masters, personnel, release context, and recording details where available.
• Songs & albums — canonical song pages, aliases, variants, album appearances, and links between songs, recordings, and performances.
• Articles & interviews — original writing, restored archive material, interviews, reviews, and research features.
• Books — books by and about Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, family members, collaborators, and the wider Cash world.
• Film, television & video — screen appearances, television work, clips, broadcasts, and related references.
• Awards, honors & milestones — public recognition, career landmarks, and historically important moments.
• Source material — newspaper clippings, photos, tickets, posters, ads, programs, and other archive media.

How the archive is built

The Infocenter is a living archive. Some entries are detailed and well sourced; others are placeholders waiting for better evidence. New source material can change what is known about a show, a recording, a date, a broadcast, or a long-repeated story.

• Source-aware curation — corrections are made carefully, with preference for verifiable sources.
• Structured linking — pages connect across songs, shows, sessions, recordings, articles, books, film, television, and source material wherever possible.
• Work-in-progress transparency — incomplete setlists, uncertain dates, missing personnel, and open research questions are treated as part of the archive.
• Ongoing recovery — older Infocenter material is still being restored, checked, rewritten, and reintegrated.

Archive history

The Johnny Cash Infocenter was founded in 2007 by Elvira. What began as a fan-built information project grew into an international archive shaped by years of collecting, writing, comparing, and rebuilding.

Over the years, the Infocenter published a large amount of information contributed by fans and researchers. The project also expanded to YouTube, where rare audio recordings, television appearances, and interviews reached a wide international audience.

Some content was lost over the years due to server crashes and technical setbacks. Behind the scenes, work continued. In 2026, the Infocenter returned with a completely rebuilt archive, restored material, and new research tools including On This Day, improved live-show pages, source material, article support, and expanded cross-linking across the site.

Credits & acknowledgements

This archive is built through years of research, collecting, checking, comparing, correcting, preserving, and rebuilding. The Johnny Cash Infocenter is grateful to everyone who has contributed information, setlists, recording details, images, newspaper clippings, corrections, interviews, research, encouragement, and technical help over the years.

Current archive work

• Jeff — long-time contributor; film and television research, original interviews, archive content, reviews, and ongoing research support.
• Ivar — long-time contributor; live-show research, setlists, source checking, archive development, and ongoing research support.
• Zach — research contributor; source checking, live-show research, archive review, and ongoing support as the rebuilt archive expands.
• Elvira — founder of the Johnny Cash Infocenter; site development, archive architecture, content, research, restoration, and ongoing maintenance.

Early team and archive history

From its early days, the Infocenter was shaped by a small, dedicated team of fans:

Last Midnight · UnderstoodMan · Cortex · Jeff · Ivar · Elvira

Together they wrote original content, compiled databases, shared research, and helped create a home for Johnny Cash fans and researchers.

Primary data foundations

Live shows database

The Infocenter’s live shows database was originally built by UnderstoodMan and Cortex, with later contributions from Jeff, Ivar, Elvira, Zach, and others. It became one of the earliest major Johnny Cash live shows and tour databases published online. Much of what appears elsewhere on the internet is derived, directly or indirectly, from this work. The Johnny Cash Infocenter continues to update, correct, expand, and source this database.

Session & recording data

The foundation of the session and recording data is based on the research of J. L. Smith, whose extensive discographic work on Johnny Cash remains an invaluable resource for researchers. Session data was compiled via JazzDiscography.com, which hosts Smith’s research alongside additional contributions from Bear Family Records liner notes. The Infocenter continues to add, check, and connect information around this foundation.

Troy King & The CASHback Show

A special thank you to Troy King, host of the CASHback Show. Troy’s broadcasts took listeners through Cash’s sessions, tours, recordings, stories, and myths with deep knowledge and passion. The Johnny Cash Infocenter is grateful to Troy for allowing the archive to host and share his audio broadcasts with its international community.

Contributors

Over the years, many fans, collectors, writers, and researchers have helped shape this archive by sharing photos, lyrics, research, interviews, corrections, recording information, and other materials.

• Keith Griffiths — extensive contributions of lyrics and detailed songbook documentation, including publisher information and photographs covering over 20 songbook entries.
• Peter Lewry — British author of Johnny Cash Chronicle: I’ve Been Everywhere and leading Cash authority; provided interviews and served as a valued source of information.
• CashandWaylonFan — photos and research contributions.
• Cortex — photos, database work, and research contributions.
• WomaninBlack — extensive photo contributions.
• JohnnyCashShow — research and information.
• Summer1776 — research and information.
• Jussel44 — original wallpaper designs.
• Johi — photo contributions.
• Willardxc — photo contributions.
• Promagnum — photo contributions.

Community history

The Johnny Cash Fanclub

The Infocenter had an association with the Johnny Cash Fanclub in the Netherlands, led by Jan Flederus. Active since 1959, the Fanclub’s collaboration with the Infocenter helped bring Dutch, German, and English-language content to a wider audience.

The Bootleg Forum community

Much of the early growth of the Infocenter was fueled by the Johnny Cash Bootleg Forum, originally hosted at the RideThisTrain URL before being migrated to the Infocenter. It was a community of fans, collectors, and traders who shared rare recordings, concert information, and research. Many details in the live shows database originated from discussions and contributions within this community.

If you were part of the Bootleg Forum and would like to reconnect, JCI would love to hear from you. The archive is growing again, and your knowledge and materials are as valuable now as they were then.

Corrections & contributions

This page, like the archive itself, is a work in progress. If you contributed to the Johnny Cash Infocenter over the years and do not see your name here, please get in touch. JCI is actively working to build a more complete record of everyone who helped shape the archive.

The same applies if you have corrections, sources, clippings, photos, recordings information, show details, book references, awards information, or other material to share. Every contribution helps make this resource more accurate and complete.

Copyright & disclaimer

This site is a reference archive. All trademarks, copyrights, images, recordings, videos, publications, and other materials belong to their respective owners. Where media is embedded or linked, it remains hosted by the original platform or uploader. The Infocenter documents and contextualizes material for research, educational, historical, and archival purposes.