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Sun Studio: The Birthplace of Rock and Roll

If you’re a music lover, you’ve probably heard of Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. This legendary recording studio is known as the birthplace of rock and roll, and it’s where some of the biggest ...
American Songwriter

Country Time Machine: Johnny Cash Performs One of His Biggest Hits for an Adoring Danish Audience

Watch Johnny Cash prove that he had a huge following in Europe with this clip from a Danish TV special from 1971.
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Johnny Cash: Back in Black

The sprawling five-disc box set from the iconic country legend Johnny Cash titled Unearthed arrives this week from American Recordings/Lost Highway. The set, which features 79 songs (64 of them ...
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Sam Phillips, who introduced the world to Elvis and Johnny Cash, would be 100 today

The man who brought the world Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and B.B. King — among others — would be turning 100 today. Record producer Sam Phillips is best known as the founder of legendary ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1954, Johnny Cash Married the Woman Who Inspired His Biggest Hit—“I Was Laying Out My Pledge of Devotion”

Seventy-one years ago today in 1954, Johnny Cash married Vivian Liberto—the woman who inspired “I Walk the Line,” then watched him cross it. “I married a good man,” Liberto said in her 2007 memoir, I ...
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Roots of Rock: Country music legend Johnny Cash

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.