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Johnny Cash “Greatest Hits – The Sun Records Years” (Charly Records, 2017)

November 30, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
Ho hum. Another Cash (in) collection I hear you say. Well, yes, it is a compilation of songs that any self respecting fan will already have, probably several times over. However these 20 songs arrive encrypted […]
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Johnny Cash’s Unearthed will be released as a huge vinyl boxset

October 6, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
And some final news from Pitchfork before you break up for the weekend.  Have a good one dear readers. They report: “Johnny Cash’s 2003 box set Unearthed, a posthumous collection of previously unreleased recordings with Rick Rubin, […]
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John Carter Cash takes the fight to white nationalists

September 18, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
And he won’t back down. Rolling Stone reports: “Earlier this week, NPR reported that American Recordings and Universal Music had sent a cease-and-desist letter to Stormfront Radio, the weekly radio show for the white supremacist site Stormfront, over […]
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Cash family “sickened” by neo-nazi in Johnny Cash t-shirt

August 18, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
it’s not been one of the most cheerful weeks of news has it? The solidarity in this should warm your soul for a Friday morning anyway. RS Country reports: “Rosanne Cash and the Cash family said they were […]
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John Prine: “Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me”

July 24, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Which isn’t the worst ex-US President you could be compared to.  “Drake was like Millard Fillmore to me.” Rolling Stone reports: “”Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me,” says beloved songwriter John Prine in a […]

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