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  • Book Review: The Complete Johnny Cash: Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting

    Book Review: The Complete Johnny Cash: Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting

    June 8, 2026 205 hits · Books
  • What’s New in  Johnny Cash Infocenter - May 2026

    What’s New in Johnny Cash Infocenter - May 2026

    June 5, 2026 94 hits · Archive Updates
    A monthly archive update from the Johnny Cash Infocenter, highlighting new additions, corrections, source material, discography work, and behind-the-scenes improvements from May 2026.
  • A Renewed Johnny Cash Infocenter for a growing archive

    A Renewed Johnny Cash Infocenter for a growing archive

    May 25, 2026 510 hits · Archive Updates
    In February 2026, the Johnny Cash Infocenter was relaunched with a renewed structure, expanded archive pages, and a clearer goal: to build a growing, searchable reference archive for Johnny Cash’s music, live shows, recordings, articles, and related source …
  • Book Review: Johnny Cash (1997) by Frank Moriarty

    Book Review: Johnny Cash (1997) by Frank Moriarty

    May 18, 2026 172 hits · Books
  • Book Review: A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears

    Book Review: A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears

    May 11, 2026 489 hits · Books
  • When Johnny Cash got his moose

    When Johnny Cash got his moose

    July 14, 2021 11164 hits · Latest news
    When Johnny Cash Got His Moose is a new movie about how a 1961 Newfoundland moose hunt led to Johnny and June. Newly discovered photos and new interviews tell the remarkable story of the 1961 Canadian moose hunt …
  • Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968

    Johnny Cash at the Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968

    July 7, 2021 7512 hits · Latest news
    A new Johnny Cash live album, recorded in San Francisco in 1968 by famed taper and audio engineer Owsley Stanley, is set for release September 24th via the Owsley Stanley Foundation and Renew Records/BMG. Johnny Cash, At the …
  • Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru’ released November 1, 2019

    Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru’ released November 1, 2019

    October 22, 2019 7733 hits · Latest news
    The Bootleg Series Vol. 15: Travelin’ Thru’ will be released on November 1, 2019. The latest chapter in Columbia/Legacy’s highly acclaimed Bob Dylan Bootleg Series revisits Dylan’s pivotal musical journeys to Nashville, from 1967 to 1969, focusing on …
  • Video: Old Rugged Cross

    Video: Old Rugged Cross

    April 5, 2015 10612 hits · The Songs
    We'd like to share this special version of 'Old Rugged Cross' with you on this Easter Day. Johnny decides to do this version in the middle of the show without the band knowing. It was taped in Des …
  • Unreleased until now: Love is a Gambler (1987)

    Unreleased until now: Love is a Gambler (1987)

    April 4, 2015 9333 hits · The Songs
    In 1987 or early 1988, Johnny Cash entered a studio in Hollywood, California and cut several songs for a Peter Bogdanovich comedy called Illegally Yours, which starred Rob Lowe and Colleen Camp.  All songs, including tracks titled "One …
  • Show 30, February 21, 2015

    Show 30, February 21, 2015

    February 21, 2015 4817 hits · CashBack
    This special episode features a musical history lesson in the people and the places and, of course, the music that made the man in Black the Man.   This week, our train celebrates the birthday of the Man, …
  • LIVE In Memphis - W.S. Holland Band

    LIVE In Memphis - W.S. Holland Band

    February 18, 2015 5609 hits · Album Reviews
    W.S. Holland, Johnny Cash’s only drummer, is an individual who needs no introduction.  There are many stories on how Johnny Cash managed to snatch W.S. Holland from Carl Perkins’ band, though as W.S. “Fluke” Holland explains it, there …