Johnny Cash News

Somewhere in England, Pete Townshend is writing rock songs and plotting The Who's next tour.

In the week that NME announced its 50 records of this past decade, I heard one of the next decade's best.

REINHARD KLEIST'S GRAPHIC-NOVEL biography " Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness " begins with the singer speeding into Reno and shooting a man just to watch him die.

THE LIST Rosanne Cash At 18, Rosanne Cash didn't fully appreciate the gift when her father, Johnny Cash, put pencil to legal pad on a summer afternoon in 1973 and jotted down his thoughts on "100 Essential Country Songs." Fresh out of high school, she'd left her mother's home to travel with dad on his bus, but knew nothing about her musical ...

Adam Lambert -- the man with the outsize personality who delivered an audacious octave-and-a-half sitar-tinged purr of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" on the most-watched TV show in the country, dodged sex toys thrown at him onstage during the "American Idol" tour and did it all without smearing his eyeliner -- is curled in the fetal position.

Providence Speech & Hearing Center chose a "Saddle Up" theme for their annual benefit this year at the Irvine Marriott Hotel on Saturday, November 14.

Most teens gripe when their dad gives them a to-do list. Of course, most teens don't have Johnny Cash for a father.

A man who possesses the grim glances and resonant phrasing style of the "Man in Black" will be appearing in concert regionally for the second time this year.

George Canyon, stricken with diabetes when he was just 14 and told he'd never be able to fulfil his ambition of flying a plane for the Canadian military, is still living a dream.

In the past year I've been to only a handful of shows that really stand out, and seeing as how I've been to more concerts in my lifetime than the number of pills choked back by Johnny Cash, Hank Williams and Mindy McCready combined, it's usually not the performances anymore that make a show memorable - it's the crowd.

Contemporary country music's relationship with quote 'traditional" country music has always been an unpredictable one.

The country-pop star wins Entertainer of the Year and three other prizes in a night dominated by up-and-comers. In 1958, Johnny Cash released the song "Ballad of a Teenage Queen," the story of a pretty small-town girl who won Hollywood fame but gave it all up for the boy next door.

Johnny Cash sang about having shot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Bob Marley belted out that he had shot the local sheriff, but not the deputy.

Well, you're my friend, and can you see? Many times, we've been out drinking; Many times we shared our thoughts.

You wouldn't be faulted if OX , Coalesce's first album in almost a decade, shocked you with its overall raw, vital energy.

Love music and travel? Then Hamburg is the perfect city for you. Laura Wurzal enjoyed a visit and was particularly enthralled by a tribute to The Beatles IT'S very early on a Sunday morning, and the Fish Auction Hall in the north German city of Hamburg is rocking to the rafters as the band belts out crowd pleasers by Johnny Cash and The Kinks.

The roaring vocals that made Roger Daltrey a signature British Invasion presence as The Who's point man were not at their best Saturday night thanks to a cold.

A trio of veteran performers brings the country music heritage of Branson, Mo., to the River Bend next weekend.

Thanks in part to Don DeLillo 's 1973 novel Great Jones Street , it didn't take long for the rock-star-toiling-away-in-seclusion narrative to go from the stuff of critical legend to obvious fodder for parody.

My father has an old record by the Statler Brothers, the country group that began as the backup band for Johnny Cash before having a good string of hits that lasted from the 1970s through the early 1990s.