Johnny Cash: Songwriter – posthumous patchwork is a pleasant surprise
‘He’d turned into a weird old grandpa’: how Johnny Cash resurrected his career – and became an icon
April 2024
Jovial, randy and anything but dark: Johnny Cash’s surprise return single Well Alright reviewed
Lost Johnny Cash songs from 1993 to be released as a new album
February 2024
The reader interview
Sheryl Crow: ‘AI is so real. It feels like an assault on my spirit’
The American singer-songwriter answers your questions about working with Johnny Cash and the Rolling Stones, what makes her happy – and why she used to hate All I Wanna Do
January 2024
‘I want her to be known as her own artist’: who was the real June Carter Cash?
June review – country music legend who was much more than Johnny Cash’s wife
May 2023
Johnny Cash lyrics to be collected in book for first time
Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics will include rare and never-before-seen visual material alongside stories and commentary
April 2023
Ranked
Willie Nelson’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!
As the 90-year-old country icon releases a new album, I Don’t Know a Thing About Love, we look back on the outlaw’s best tracks
August 2022
‘I’m a roads scholar!’ Marty Stuart’s five decades at the country university
Since joining his first band aged 12, Stuart has played with the likes of Johnny Cash and the Byrds and is now building a country music museum. He explains the roots of his lifelong passion
February 2022
Rick Rubin: Def Jam founder and producer announces debut book
The Creative Act: A Way of Being will be ‘a book about what to do make a great work of art’ and ‘a book about how to be’
December 2021
The music essay
Charley Pride: how the US country star became an unlikely hero during the Troubles
Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash cancelled gigs in Belfast during the violent 1970s, but Pride played on – and, with his song Crystal Chandeliers, became a sensation in the north and the Republic
May 2021
The music essay
Man in Black at 50: Johnny Cash’s empathy is needed more than ever
The country star is not always remembered for his politics, but his about-face to withdraw support for Nixon and the Vietnam war may be his finest moment
January 2020
Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall review – shooting stars
This absorbing documentary traces the career of the photographer who captured memorable moments, from Johnny Cash in jail to the Beatles’ last gig
October 2019
Gaining my religion: Kanye, Dylan and the pop stars who find God
Kanye West has reportedly said he will only be recording gospel from now on – following a trail blazed with mixed results by Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens and Reverend Run
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
'It's one big earworm': readers' picks of the best albums this century
After we published our list of the greatest albums this century, we asked for your own suggestions – from dark R&B to revolutionary drum’n’bass
May 2019
Live Aid to Sonic Death Monkey – the best gigs at the movies
As the Queen and Elton John biopics prove, great concert performances are at the heart of the best films about music. Here are 15 of the finest
August 2018
And the band played on: how to grow old gracefully in pop
Madonna may have hit a birthday milestone but, from Johnny Cash’s stark admission of age to Paul McCartney’s embrace of hip young things, there’s ways to keep your music fresh
July 2018
Rosanne Cash review – haunting hymns and sharp lyricism
Armed with acoustic guitars, the country singer comes into her own with a career-spanning set of poignant pop-country
April 2018
The week in podcasts: Death in Ice Valley; We Came to Win
A real cold case of a missing woman in Norway allows listeners to provide witness evidence, but an American spin on Italia 90 deserves a yellow card
