Listen Sheryl Crow released a song Friday that’s not exactly new. “Redemption Day” was originally released in 1996 on her multi-platinum self-titled album. But for the Nashville-based Grammy winner, the song has new meaning and new weight, thanks to the voice of an old friend: Johnny Cash. And Crow tells WPLN, it’s the first song […]
How Johnny Cash Tried To Save A Former Convict With God And Nashville
Listen It’s a January morning in 1968. There are 1,000 convicts in mess hall #2 at Folsom Prison. They’re hooting, hollering, clapping, pounding fists on metal tables. The object of their excitement is Johnny Cash. He’s onstage under the harsh fluorescent lights, standing tall behind a nicotine veil of smoke. Down in the front row, […]
Masterpiece Or Pretty Good Songs? Johnny Cash Estate Releases Lost Album
Johnny Cash is out with an album of new music more than a decade after his death. His son – John Carter Cash – has polished some forgotten tunes that were sitting around collecting dust. And he says they show the lighter side of the “man in black.”