Sixty-eight years ago today, Johnny Cash played his first-ever prison concert and unknowingly changed the country music world.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Next in our series of interviews on R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll, we have my 1997 interview with Johnny Cash, one of country music's most influential ...

Johnny Cash died about four months after his wife June Carter Cash's death Johnny Cash was a force in the music world across different genres before his death in September 2003. Throughout his ...

The Linseman family heirloom was purchased back in the 1950s, and is believed to be the same D-18 that Cash used to track ...

In the cultural landscape of midcentury America, few transformations were as subtly seismic as the slow, sometimes reluctant, elevation of country music into the national consciousness. The genre, ...

On January 1, 1958, Johnny Cash walked through the gates of San Quentin State Prison and performed for inmates.

Johnny Cash was a force in the music world across different genres before his death in September 2003. Cash would not live without his wife for long: Nearly four months after June’s passing, Cash died ...