Johnny Cash News

There's an "X Factor" reality show as well as an "X factor" in talent show auditions - the intangible qualities that blend with the performance, things beyond the actual quality of the voice such as stage presence, vitality and personality.

Mark Lowry is looking forward to hosting the fourth annual Johnny Cash Music Festival , starring Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Reba McEntire, Bobby Bare and Loretta Lynn, and taking place once again at Arkansas State University's Convocation Center in Jonesboro, on Aug. 15. And the singer-comedian, long a superstar in the Southern Gospel ... (more)

When John Carter Cash happened upon an album of unheard songs by his father, he knew it had to be released.

"They didn't know 'Folsom Prison Blues,' " he said of the signature Johnny Cash song that made a city - just 43 miles east of Dixon, where Pardi grew up - notorious.

Keep It Cash are a Johnny Cash tribute band who have performed at top theatres in the UK and across Europe.

If you are going to pay homage to Johnny Cash on the campaign trail, you could dress in all black, dabble with drugs, and challenge your opponent to a barroom brawl.

For local indie/folk band, Earnest Ernest, things are falling into place in a manner too perfect to be brushed away as coincidence.

Volunteers stood up to be recognized during the Oxford Volunteer of the Year ceremonies recently held in Oxford.

The national tour of the Broadway musical MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, inspired by the electrifying true story, will appear at the DuPont Theatre in Wilmington, Delaware for eight performances only, from May 27 through June 1, 2014.

Since 2006, Nashville cat Chuck Mead, one of the founders of the expert 1990s honky-tonk revival band BR549, has been music director of "Million Dollar Quartet," the touring Broadway show about the famed 1956 Sun Studios rockabilly jam session with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis.

MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Peabody Auditorium 4/15-4/15/2014 Million Dollar Quartet is the electrifying new musical inspired by the famed recording session that brought together rock 'n' roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis for the first and only time.

HILDA'S YARD Theatre Jacksonville 4/11-4/25/2014 From the pen of Canada's most produced playwright Norm Foster who appeared in Theatre Jacksonville's 2013 International Theatre Festival, Hilda's Yard follows the story of on ordinary family on one ordinary day in 1956 as empty-nesters Sam and Hilda Fluck discover their nest's not so empty after all.

The latest posthumous music from Johnny Cash, who died in 2003, “Out Among the Stars,” recorded in the early '80s, was released this week and debuted at No.

Get a call from Sweden, stop to pump gas, book a studio: Welcome to the strange world of Will Kimbrough .

If you're anything like me, the news of a previously unreleased album by Johnny Cash made you hop up from your computer and do a little dance.

Purchase tickets at The History Museum, 422 2nd St. S., or call 452-3462. Beer, wine and barbecue sandwiches will be available to show patrons.

WS "Fluke" Holland, the former Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Three drummer, was recognized Feb. 18 at the Ameripolitan Music Awards in Austin, Texas with the Sound Award recognizing his contributions to American music while keeping the beat for iconic artists Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and numerous others, according to a news release.

This week's Sound Check kicks off with a CD received in the mail from a family band I saw several years ago, Bluegrass Martins, whose "World Of Our Own" album appeared on the TTP list 2012.

This story is set on Dec. 4, 1956, when Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley got together at the Sun Records storefront studio in Memphis for one of the best jam sessions ever.

As tragic as the 2003 passing of Johnny Cash was for American music, Cash's American Recordings series was the perfect way for his story to conclude.