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 ...

Tried-and-true country songs rarely grace the top of the most popular chart in the world, but these three managed to.

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 ...

Today, we're taking a look at some of the greatest country hits of all time. These songs managed to become so big that even ...

Twenty-one years ago today, the songwriter behind a major hit from Johnny Cash and multiple country classics died in Mexico.

Growing up as the son of music legend Waylon Jennings means that over the years, Shooter Jennings spent a lot of time around other legends, including his godfather, Johnny Cash. But despite the love ...

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.

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 ...