NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An unreleased recitation by Johnny Cash will be available as part of a new documentary examining Cash's views on America. In "I Am The Nation,"...
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Rosanne Cash is tired of people using her late father's name to further their own political agendas. The singer-songwriter released a statement on her Web site ...
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A 40-year-old documentary about Johnny Cash to air on the Public Broadcasting Service shows him in concert and in casual settings. But unlike the 2005 movie "Walk the Line,"...
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The former Tennessee home of Johnny Cash's parents is on sale for $1.4 million — and that includes a gold record from "The Man in Black." Johnny Cash's brother Tommy...
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Joaquin Phoenix has walked the line, now he's walking the walk. His turn as Johnny Cash was apparently as inspiring as it was inspired: The Oscar-nominated actor is...
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A concert marking the 40th anniversary of Johnny Cash's famous concert at Folsom State Prison has been scrapped, with the prison and the promoter blaming each other for the...
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Johnny Cash is to be honored by Mississippi town Starkville, 42 years after he was arrested there and locked up in the cells for the night.
The Johnny Cash Flower Pickin'...
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Barry Gibb, the former Bee Gee who bought the house that Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived in for decades before their deaths in 2003, said on Monday he...
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Johnny Cash's Tennessee home couldn't escape the ring of fire, but Barry Gibb says that his new house will walk the property's original line.
The former Bee...
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Firefighters were battling flames in a major fire at the home of the late country singer Johnny Cash on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
No injuries were...
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Justin Timberlake, Bono, and Jay-Z are among the stars set to appear in a posthumous Johnny Cash video. The promo clip to "God's Gonna Cut You Down" was premiered yesterday...
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You may have seen the recent photos
of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his
44th album, "Modern Times," shares a title with Chaplin's 1936
classic about...
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Fans of early rock 'n' roll gathered in Jackson this weekend for the annual International Rockabilly Festival. Musicians in town for the three-day festival that ended...
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Music fans got into the American spirit this Fourth of
July.
American V: A Hundred Highways , the latest
posthumous Johnny Cash studio release, cruised right to...
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Diabetes had cost Johnny Cash much of his sight, and he needed a wheelchair. Losing his wife June was crushing. Yet, in retrospect, producer Rick Rubin wasn't surprised to...
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The full details of the final Johnny Cash "American Recordings" album have been announced. The last official chapter in the series, which re-established Cash as a...
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The Man in Black's music is hitting the American road
again this summer.
The last song Johnny Cash ever
wrote will be released on a new album, American V: A...
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The third chart entry proves to
be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the
Billboard Hot 100 with "Let Me Love You" (3rd Street/J). The
single moves 3-2,...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who
survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest
hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of
commercially...
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Of all the acts that have become
prominent figures in the contemporary worship movement, the
Newsboys' impact might be the most surprising.
The band has come a long way...
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Country artists need to try harder
when it comes to international markets, according to talent
executive Bruce Allen.
During a recent keynote speech at the Country Music...
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Less than six months after his death, Ray Charles may be more popular than ever with a movie about his life and a posthumously released album.
Now he is being recognized...
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Unreleased tracks by the late Joe
Strummer , Rancid and others fill out the ranks of the latest
"cheapo" compilation from the independent Hellcat Records
label.
"Give 'Em...
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Stevie Wonder, Usher and Norah Jones
are among the artists who will celebrate Ray Charles at an
October tribute concert that will be taped for later broadcast
on...
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Paul McCartney , the Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Tony Bennett , Sonic Youth, Ben Harper and the Innocent
Criminals, Los Lonely Boys and Tegan & Sara will join event
founder Neil...
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Johnny Cash's guitars, his black
leather boots and a tin cup from Folsom Prison are among the
memorabilia from the late country music star displayed on
Tuesday ahead of an...
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Between an upcoming role in the
Johnny Cash biopic and a deal promoting DKNY clothes, newcomer
Waylon Payne looks to grab more attention than the typical new
artist with...
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A 1929 film clip of country music legend Jimmie Rogers. Scratchy recordings of Mississippi blues godfather Robert Johnson. Images of folk icon Bob Dylan 's early...
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Country Music Television's list of the 100 greatest love songs:
1. "I Will Always Love You" (Dolly Parton )
2. "You Were Always On My Mind" (Willie Nelson )
3. "Sweet...
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Glen Campbell has signed a one-off
deal with Universal South Records for a two-CD set due June 8.
"Love Is the Answer: 24 Songs of Faith, Hope and Love" contains
one disc...
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Brooks & Dunn added to their record 17 Academy of Country Music awards Wednesday, beating out Montgomery Gentry and three other groups for the top vocal duo award.
Alan...
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One of the most famous guitars in the
world of country music, owned by Mother Maybelle Carter and
then her daughter, June Carter Cash , is up for sale.
The asking price is...
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Kris Kristofferson 's return last
year to recording yielded four new songs on "Broken Freedom
Song: Live from San Francisco," the concert set that Oh Boy
Records...
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A guitar owned by the mother of June Carter Cash is up for sale.
A member of one of country music's most influential families, "Mother Maybelle" Carter is thought to have...
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One piece at a time, Johnny Cash 's guitars, banjos, handwritten lyrics, photographs, vintage black leather clothing, Grammy Awards and other belongings will be auctioned...
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Sotheby's will auction possessions of
country singer Johnny Cash , including a black pickup truck and
black fringed suede jacket that belonged to the late star known
as "The...
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Country songwriter and manager Merle Kilgore was scheduled to have quadruple-bypass heart surgery Monday to clear four blocked arteries.
He learned he had a heart problem...
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This city of about 18,000 is going to need a Walk of Fame if it keeps up this pace. While Diana DeGarmo is now among the top five finalists on the Fox television show,...
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Country icon Loretta Lynn and
rocker Jack White of White Stripes fame might appear to be a
musical odd couple. But one listen to Lynn's new White-produced
album, "Van Lear...
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Evan Rachel Wood , Reba McEntire and Peter Krause were honored at the eighth annual Prism Awards, presented for accurate portrayals of drug, alcohol and tobacco use within...
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Toby Keith took home three awards Wednesday in Country Music Television's Flameworthy Video Music Awards show, including video of the year for his patriotic song "American...
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It seems a little thing, but it left a big impression on Reba McEntire . Almost 20 years ago, McEntire was staying at a Holiday Inn in the Northeast when the video for her...
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Carlene Carter was sent back to jail late last week after reportedly failing a drug test. The singer, who is the daughter of the late June Carter Cash and stepdaughter of...
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Carlene Carter , stepdaughter of Johnny Cash and daughter of country singers June Carter Cash and Carl Smith, has been jailed, authorities said Thursday.
Sumner County...
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Producers of an upcoming movie on the life of country music singer Johnny Cash say they may start shooting in June.
The movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as the "Man in Black"...
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Kate Markowitz has done hundreds of
shows in New York, singing backup for the likes of Shawn Colvin
and, for 13 years, James Taylor .
Still, she was admittedly uptight at...
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An 1888 recitation of the Lord's Prayer, the original cast recording of "Oklahoma!" and the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album will be enshrined together...
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Josh Turner isn't offended when people think his current single is a cover of a Johnny Cash song.
In fact, he's flattered, because he wrote "Long Black Train" and no one...
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Thanks to Norah
Jones, the bad boys don't have a chance.
For a fifth
straight week, Feels
Like Home kept Jones in the number one spot despite challenges
ranging from...
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Was Kurt
Cobain ready to say nevermind to Nirvana
in the days before his suicide?
According to a recently
surfaced interview Cobain gave months before his April
1994...
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Grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain dreamed about leaving his band Nirvana to join wife Courtney Love 's group Hole, a music magazine quoted him as saying in an interview months...
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If you're packing your bags for
Texas right now, you might want to check out the plentiful
selection of indie-label showcases during the South by
Southwest Music Conference...
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List of key nominations announced Wednesday for the 39th annual Academy of Country Music Awards:
1. Entertainer of the Year: Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney , Alan Jackson ,...
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Alan Jackson can justify celebrating his leading eight Academy of Country Music nominations on Wednesday as early as he wants, because — as the title of his hit song...
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It puts out some of the most coveted
product for die-hard country music fans, yet Richard Weize's
Bear Family Records has never sold more than 3,000 units of a
title.
"Our...
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When people speak of music
visionaries, artists usually get most of the credit. But in
terms of those who work behind the scenes, few visionaries
stand out more than Rolling...
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Eminem 's "The Marshall Mathers LP"
and OutKast's "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" have each been
certified for U.S. shipments of 9 million copies.
The sets are fast...
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Johnny Cash's children are squelching an ad agency's idea to use the Man In Black's hit song, "Ring Of Fire," in a commercial for a hemorrhoid-relief product. A producer...
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When rap great Jay-Z released his
retirement opus "The Black Album" last year, a hip-hop remixer
called Danger Mouse had an idea -- why not meld the blackness
of rap with...
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Advertising writers in Florida were planning to pitch hemorrhoid-relief products with a commercial featuring the Johnny Cash classic "Ring of Fire," but Cash's family said...
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In a format that is looking for a
breakthrough artist to engage consumers, country newcomer Josh
Turner is a godsend.
His current single, "Long Black Train," has been...
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Coldplay and producer Ken Nelson won the Grammy Award for Record Of The Year for "Clocks." The award was the fourth Grammy Award the group has won. Group front man Chris...
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Janet didn't show. Justin did. Beyonc won--a lot.
The
46th
Annual Grammy Awards, irrevocably shaped by last weekend's 38th
annual Super Bowl, played it safe with a...
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LOS ANGELES - Beyonce captured a record-tying five Grammys for her solo debut album "Dangerously in Love," taking an early lead at Sunday's awards ceremony, while recovering...
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Late country music icon Johnny Cash won a Grammy Award on Sunday for a heartbreaking video clip that served as a nostalgic farewell to his fans.
His wife, June Carter...
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Sting, Dave Matthews, Vince Gill and
the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams have signed on for a Grammy
tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' first U.S.
television...
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Famed New York nightclub the Bottom
Line closed the doors forever at its Greenwich Village location
Thursday.
Opened nearly 30 years ago by Allan Pepper and...
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Some of Nashville's finest pickers threw a surprise party Tuesday for banjo great Earl Scruggs on his 80th birthday — and they brought their instruments with...
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Alicia Keys , India.Arie, Kenny Rogers and Michael McDonald are among the artists confirmed to
perform at the Air Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival next month.
Set for Jan....
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When producer T Bone Burnett set out to make the soundtrack to the Civil War-era film, "Cold Mountain," he drew as much from his love of rock 'n' roll as from traditional...
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Works by Bob Dylan , Johnny Cash and
George Harrison are among the major catalog titles slated to be
released in the first quarter of 2004.
On Feb. 24, Universal Music...
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It's usually considered a good
thing when country music and artists make headlines.
But two stories that kept country in the news this year --
the death of icon Johnny...
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They may have passed on to that
great concert hall in the sky, but artists such as Warren Zevon , George Harrison , Johnny Cash and his wife still managed
to pick up...
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Going solo proved to be a wise career choice for several of this
year's biggest Grammy nominees.
The move paid off today
for Beyonc,
Justin
Timberlake and even...
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Complete list of nominees in 105 categories announced Thursday for the 46th annual Grammy Awards, to be presented Feb. 8 in Los Angeles:
1. Record of the Year: "Crazy in...
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After two decades of survival and success in the cutthroat music business, the world's pre-eminent white rap mogul found himself trapped in a place most horrific: A witness...
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The Rhinestone Cowboy wants to ride
off into the sunset.
Not long before his recent arrest on charges of drunk
driving and leaving the scene of a car accident,...
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Country singer Tim McGraw will headline the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Concert on Dec. 11 in Oslo, Norway.
The event is in honor of this year's winner Shirin Ebadi, one of...
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Toby Keith knows how to shock 'em. Despite being the biggest
loser at last week's Country
Music Association Awards, Keith wound up the biggest winner on the
album chart.
...
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Monday night (November 10), stars from across the musical galaxy came together in Nashville to pay tribute to the late Johnny Cash. The legendary "Man In Black," who died of...
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The late Johnny Cash — a pioneer of both country and rock music — was honored with a tribute featuring artists and performances as diverse and far-reaching as his...
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The lineup for Monday's Johnny Cash tribute concert says a lot about the late singer's place in popular music.
He inspired rockers Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow and John...
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Johnny Cash's near sweep of this year's CMA Awards was a long time in coming. He last received awards from the Country Music Association in 1969, when he took home five...
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The Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville was lit up with the stars of country music as the 37th Annual Country Music Awards took place there Wednesday (November 5). The CBS...
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The Man in Black is gone but not forgotten.
Johnny
Cash was awarded three of Nashville's highest honors at the Country
Music Association's 37th Annual Country Music...
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Johnny Cash made history on
Wednesday at the Country Music Association awards show, winning
three top honors in a nationally televised extravaganza which
also paid a...
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It'll be a testosterone-fest at the Country Music Association Awards this year. For the first time in about 20 years, male singers took all five slots in both the...
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Vince Gill , who will host the Country Music Association Awards for the 12th time, says he'll try to be low-key.
"I've always felt that my role is to try to make everybody...
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Singer Kid Rock and country duo Brooks & Dunn are the latest artists to be added to the Nov. 10 musical tribute to Johnny Cash at the Ryman Auditorium, organizers announced...
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The daughter of late country music singer June Carter Cash and a bluegrass fiddle player, whose bodies were found in a camper bus, died from carbon monoxide poisoning, the...
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Tim Robbins will host the Nov. 10 musical tribute to Johnny Cash at the Ryman Auditorium, Cash's longtime manager Lou Robin said Monday.
"He's looking forward to being...
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Actor Tim Robbins will be the host of the Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute at Ryman Auditorium on Nov. 10.
Artists confirmed to take part in the service include Willie...
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The Man in Black is reaching out to fans from beyond the grave.
Next month Johnny
Cash not only becomes the focus of an all-star
concert, but also a just-announced...
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John Mellencamp, Dwight Yoakam and George Jones are all confirmed to perform during the Johnny Cash Memorial Tribute scheduled for November 10 at the Ryman Auditorium in...
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A public musical tribute to the late Johnny Cash has been changed from November 12 to November 10 at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Artists confirmed to perform include...
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A public memorial service for Johnny Cash will be held on November 12 at the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville. The event will require a ticket for admission, but...
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Retail sales for the last album from American music legend Johnny Cash have soared since the singer's death last Friday (September 12). According to new SoundScan tracking...
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A private funeral for Johnny Cash was held on Monday (September 15), in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Among the celebrities on hand to pay their respects to the "Man In Black"...
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As the music world mourns the death of Johnny Cash--who passed away on the morning of Friday (September 12), at the age of 71--artists from every genre of music are paying...
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The funeral service for Johnny Cash will be held Monday (September 15) at the First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tennessee at noon CT. The funeral will be closed to the...
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Johnny Cash died on Friday (September 12) at Nashville's Baptist Hospital at 3:00 a.m. ET, according to a release from the hospital. The legendary "Man in Black" was 71...
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Johnny Cash is resting at home in Nashville after a two-week stay at a local hospital for treatment of a stomach ailment. The 71-year-old singer was released from Baptist...
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Multiple nominee Johnny Cash was absent from Thursday (August 28) night's MTV Video Music Awards in New York City, because he was in a Nashville hospital, suffering with a...
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Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash's early recordings on the Louisiana Hayride radio show can be heard on two forthcoming albums set for release on September 23.
Johnny Cash...
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A tribute album to Country Music Hall Of Famers the Carter Family is in the works. Johnny Cash, the late June Carter Cash, Marty Stuart, Willie Nelson, Rosanne Cash, Ricky...
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Friends close to Johnny Cash are worried about how the legendary singer will fare without his partner of so many years, June Carter Cash, who died Thursday (May 15) due to...
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Country star June Carter Cash died Thursday (May 15) after experiencing complications from surgery to replace her heart valve on May 7, AP reports. Cash, who was married to...
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Johnny Cash's latest album, American IV: The Man Comes Around, has been certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 units. That gives the project the distinction...
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After three weeks of hospitalization for pneumonia, Johnny Cash was released from Nashville's Baptist hospital on Tuesday night (April 1).
According to a hospital...
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>Johnny Cash, who was admitted to a Nashville hospital early last week with a slight case of pneumonia, was as of Friday (March 14) still recovering at the facility....
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Johnny Cash checked into Nashville's Baptist hospital a few days after Christmas to have a tumor examined in his foot, according to reports, but Cash's manager Lou Robbin...
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Carlene Carter, who charted two top five country songs ("I Fell In Love" and "Come On Back") in the early 1990s, was arrested in Nashville on Thursday (December 12) on two...
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Johnny Cash was released from Nashville's Baptist Hospital Tuesday (August 27) afternoon after being treated for an allergic reaction. The "Man In Black" was admitted Monday...
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Johnny Cash was rushed to a Nashville hospital Monday (August 26) afternoon after suffering an allergic reaction at his home. The legend was expected to spend Monday night...
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For those who thought Johnny Cash recording songs by Soundgarden and Beck a few years ago mind-blowing, wait'll they hear the Man In Black's forthcoming American IV: The Man...
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Columbia Legacy is set to release four Johnny Cash reissue albums and one never-before-released concert, Live At Madison Square Garden, on September 3. The concert was...
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Johnny Cash has teamed up with Dave Matthews to record a duet for possible inclusion in an upcoming film soundtrack, according to a spokesperson for Cash. The song, called...
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Paul McCartney and Rolling Stones singer-guitarist Keith Richards are among those paying tribute to Johnny Cash on an upcoming two-disc career retrospective. The Essential...
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Just a couple of weeks before Johnny Cash's 70th birthday, which is February 26, Columbia/Legacy will release The Essential Johnny Cash, a 36-song package which marks the...
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Johnny Cash was admitted to Nashville's Baptist Hospital on Tuesday (October 30) after suffering a reoccurring bout with bronchitis. The man in black was originally admitted...
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Johnny Cash was released from a Nashville hospital on Monday (October 22) after a two-week stay for bronchitis. Cash was admitted on October 7, and remained in stable...
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Johnny Cash is in stable condition after being admitted to Nashville's Baptist Hospital on Sunday (October 7) suffering with bronchitis.
"It doesn't look serious, but...
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Johnny Cash will be honored next year on his 70th birthday with a tribute to be held in Europe as part of the first London Music Festival 2002. The event is scheduled for...
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Johnny Cash and his longtime photographer, Jim Marshall, have filed a lawsuit against the Urban Outfitters retail chain for the unauthorized use of Cash's name and likeness...
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Johnny Cash, home from the hospital in time to celebrate his 69th birthday on Monday (February 26), is planning on starting work on a new album as soon as he is back on his...
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Johnny Cash's first night at home after a week-long hospitalization for pneumonia was celebrated with news of winning the Grammy for best male country vocal performance with...
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Johnny Cash was released from Nashville's Baptist Hospital today (February 21) after being treated for pneumonia. The legend was hospitalized for his fourth bout with...
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Johnny Cash's has been upgraded from serious to satisfactory condition by doctor's at Nashville's Baptist Hospital. Cash, 68, was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia on...
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Johnny Cash, 68, was admitted to Baptist Hospital Sunday (February 11) afternoon with a case of pneumonia. While details of his illness are few, the country legend is...
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Johnny Cash's original diagnosis of Shy-Drager syndrome has been replaced with autonomic neuropathy, a series of symptoms caused by damage to nerves supplying the internal...
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Sheryl Crow and Tom Petty are among several guest stars on Solitary Man, the new album from country legend Johnny Cash, due from American Recordings on October 17. Crow...
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An upcoming three-disc collection of the music of
Johnny Cash will feature liner notes by Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino, among others. Love, God, Murder, due...
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Johnny Cash's condition has been upgraded from stable to good, and doctors might release him from Baptist Hospital as early as Friday (Oct. 29), according to hospital...
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Johnny Cash is once again battling pneumonia in a Nashville area hospital. The singer, 67, was listed in serious condition today.
"He was re-admitted on Sunday after...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
Late Night With Conan O'Brien - Eve is the musical guest. (To read an Eve feature, click here.)
A&E:
The Equalizer - McCall...
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Courtesy of RockOnTV (www.rockontv.com):
NBC:
Saturday Night Live --The Corrs are the musical guests.
MUCH USA:
DaMix At St. Kitts Music Festival - The DaMix crew traveled...
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When cable network TNT airs An All-Star Tribute To Johnny Cash a week from Sunday, keep an eye out for a special guest performance by Cash himself--his first since being...
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"Man In Black" Johnny Cash is in stable condition at Nashville's Baptist Hospital, but there's still no word on when he'll be released, according to a hospital...
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Travis Tritt, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash will start filming The Long Kill next week. The CBS western is being shot in Spain on sets originally used...
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The results of the myLAUNCH Guess The Grammys contest are in! The envelope, please....
And the lucky winner of $2000 worth of free CDs from myLAUNCH is the member known as...
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Johnny Cash is selling off most of his family's Nashville property. Cash, 65, was diagnosed last year with Shy-Drager syndrome--a progressive disorder of the nervous...
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Cliffie Stone, a key executive who pioneered country music on the West Coast, has died at the age of 80. Stone had a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles on Saturday,...
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Producer Rick Rubin, who shuttered his American Recordings deal with Time Warner last year, has won back the rights to the label name.
Rubin, who has since struck a deal...
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Producer, recording industry executive and musician Owen Bradley died January 7th in Nashville of complications from the flu. He was 82.
Bradley was a key architect of the...
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Rick Rubin, whose American Recordings label produced albums by the Black Crowes, Danzig and Johnny Cash before folding earlier this year, has found a new home at Columbia...
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Mere weeks after being hospitalized with Parkinson's disease, 65-year-old country giant Johnny
Cash is now being treated for pneumonia. The Nashville Banner reported...
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65-year-old country legend Johnny
Cash revealed three days ago, while onstage during a concert in Flint, Michigan, that he has been stricken with the degenerative brain...
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Over 400 fans turned up at the Davis Kidd bookstore in Nashville last night to have country legend Johnny
Cash personally sign their copies of his new autobiography,...
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