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House Of Cash: The Legacies Of My Father, Johnny Cash
House Of Cash: The Legacies Of My Father, Johnny Cash John Carter Cash (Insight Editions) Rating: Stuffed to the brim with family pictures, handwritten notes, setlists, and discarded lyric sheets, this 150-page coffee table book paints the The Man in Black as a colorful guy. John Carter Cash takes us into his dad’s personal archives [...]
Behind The Song: “One”
During a hometown show on December 31, 1989, Bono took a minute to air his band’s dirty laundry. U2 had entered the final stretch of the Lovetown Tour, launched earlier that year to help promote Rattle And Hum, and the guys were beyond exhausted. There were family issues to deal with; Bono’s wife had given birth to [...]
Digital-Only Classical Label Takes On Rock And Roll
X5 compilations have topped the iTunes classical music charts. Now they’re taking on Sun Records catalog. X5 Music Group is a Stockholm-based music startup that is helping to rethink the way labels package and release albums digitally. X5 licenses classical music catalogs and creates attractively-priced digital albums that appeal to a younger demographic. X5′s business [...]
Measure For Measure: Inner Demons
Creativity – the muse – is a bit of a troublemaker. If she likes you, you’re in heaven. If she doesn’t, you’re in hell. Every songwriter who has ever faced a blank page knows all about her capricious personality, but never loses interest in her. Sometimes, though, we should be careful of what we wish [...]
Merle Haggard Readies Working In Tennessee
Merle Haggard’s Working In Tennessee, his second release for Vanguard Records, will drop October 4. The latest in the country icon’s already overflowing discography, the new album features Haggard’s trademark everyman poetry, family contributions and a couple of Johnny Cash gems. Working In Tennessee opens with the title track, which touches on Haggard’s struggles and [...]
Behind the Song: “The Gambler”
Johnny Cash cut it. Bobby Bare cut it. Under the name “Charlie Tango,” Conway Twitty’s son, Michael Twitty, cut it. Even the songwriter himself, Don Schlitz, cut it, as well as other people whose names are a distant Music Row memory. But when Kenny Rogers and producer Larry Butler finally recorded “The Gambler,” Schlitz was [...]
Johnny Cash: Bootleg Vol. 2: From Memphis to Hollywood
Johnny Cash Bootleg Vol. 2: From Memphis to Hollywood Columbia/Legacy Rating: One of our favorite odd-ball musical pairings has to be the unlikely brotherhood between Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. A bond built on mutual admiration, Dylan influenced Cash to expand his songwriting and Cash in turn can take some of the credit for Dylan’s explorations [...]
South By Southwest Documentary In The Works
Last week, the Austin, Texas-based creative content company, Arts+Labor, revealed that they’re working on a documentary about the revered music industry mecca, South By Southwest, which will celebrate its 25th year in existence this March. The film is sure to cover the story of South By Southwest’s origins: how three members of Austin’s alt-weekly rag, [...]
Johnny Cash’s Bootleg Vol. 2: Full Details
Get ready for a whole lot of classic Cash. On February 22, Columbia/Legacy will release From Memphis To Hollywood: Bootleg Vol. 2, a double-disc collection of B-Sides and rarities. Check out the full press release below. * * * The musical treasures left behind by Johnny Cash at the House Of Cash estate in Hendersonville, [...]
Old 97’s On Their Best Album Since Too Far to Care
American Songwriter caught up with Murry Hammond, bassist for the Old 97’s, right before Thanksgiving. He was at the post office, and doing some other last minute errands getting ready to host 14 of his in-laws. The band is currently on tour promoting their stellar new album, The Grand Theatre Volume 1, recently released on [...]
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