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Johnny Cash Remixed

Some things in life really shouldn't be done, and remixing Johnny Cash is one of them. I'm not sure what prompted John Carter Cash, Johnny Cash's son, to become involved with this project. Nonetheless, Carter Cash executive-produced this record along with Snoop Dogg and Beyonce's dad, Matthew Knowles. When I first listened to this album, nearly...
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Johnny Cash — Live From Austin TX

Cash had his own long-running television show before most of you were born, but he's said that this 1987 Austin City Limits performance was one of his finest ever for the small screen. The '80s found Cash at a low point in his career, as the hits of the previous three decades had dried up and he had yet to be resurrected through his series of...
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Johnny Cash — American V: A Hundred Highways

Producer Rick Rubin returns with what could be the final chapter in Johnny Cash's American recordings series. This fifth installment partly recorded at Cash's country hideaway in Hendersonville, Tennessee, picks up where the previous Grammy-winning discs left off. Intimate and raw, these dozen songs show the master storyteller at his most...
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Walk The Line OST

While director James Mangold's decision to have his actors do their own singing in his Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line is a sound one, 20th Century Fox's decision to release their efforts as a CD is not. Joaquin Phoenix's attempts to sound like Johnny Cash without resorting to sheer impressionism are valiant and Reese Witherspoon does her best to...
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Johnny Cash — My Mother's Hymn Book

Johnny Cash's last album, When The Man Comes Around, was brutally profound in its dark explorations of a man clearly approaching the end of his life. It's appropriate that My Mother's Hymn Book comes out after Cash's death, in that it approaches the subject of the singer's own death with a sense of hope and security that's peculiarly comforting...
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Johnny Cash — American VI: Ain't No Grave

Ain't No Grave is a truly spooky album. Johnny Cash cut the disc during the final months of his life while he was battling cancer, and June Carter Cash, his wife, passed away while he was recording it. These songs are some of the final tunes Cash recorded, and they once again feature Cash covering tunes by artists like Sheryl Crow and Kris...
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Johnny Cash Releases Ain't No Grave Next Month

Johnny Cash's final studio album, American VI: Ain't No Grave, will be released on Feb. 26 through American Recordings/Lost Highway. The album, produced by Rick Rubin (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys), will be out the same day Cash would have turned 78. Songs on the album include the title track, Kris Kristofferson's "For The Good...
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Today In Music History: Johnny Cash And Jan. 13, 1968

Johnny Cash recorded his At Folsom Prison live album on this date in 1968. Of course, Cash had an early interest in prisons and had cultivated an "outlaw image" very early in his career, despite never having been arrested or doing any time. He wrote "Folsom Prison Blues" after watching the Inside The Walls Of Folsom Prison...
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Johnny Cash In Guitar Hero 5

Have you ever wanted to be Johnny Cash? Now's your chance. Cash will be a playable character in Guitar Hero 5, which is out Sept. 5. Here's a trailer for Cash's character.
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Johnny Cash Is A Guitar Hero

Gamers will soon be able to walk the line between fantasy and reality, Johnny Cash style. Guitar Hero 5 will feature a playable animated version of the Man In Black. Fans will be able to use Cash's character to play and sing "Ring Of Fire" as well as perform at the new Electric Honky Tonk Bar venue, according to reports from...
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Johnny Cash Goes Punk

A week after Johnny Cash Remixed hits stores, an album of Cash covers by punk acts will be released. All Aboard: A Tribute To Johnny Cash is out on Oct. 21 on CD and vinyl through Anchorless Records. It features covers of Cash songs by the likes of Bouncing Souls, MxPx, The Dresden Dolls, The Flatliners and The Sainte Catherines. The songs range...
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Johnny Cash Goes Hip-Hop

Some classic Johnny Cash country songs undergo daring transformations on Johnny Cash Remixed. A deluxe vinyl edition of the album will be available on Sept. 23, while the CD will be released by Compadre Records on Oct. 14. Executive producers Snoop Dogg (who's featured on album opener "I Walk The Line"), John Carter Cash (Johnny Cash's...
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Pumping: Johnny Cash Remixed

Apparently this remix album was produced by Cash's son, John Carter Cash, who said in a statement: "[Johnny Cash] would have loved this remix record." I think he is a liar. Also: Snoop Dogg? Wtf?
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Johnny Cash's Great Lost Performance Has Been Found

A recently discovered Johnny Cash performance will be released by Universal on July 24. The Great Lost Performance features 18 songs recorded on July 27, 1990 at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It includes duets with Cash's wife June Carter on "Jackson" and "The Wreck Of Old '97" and with Lucy Clark on "...
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Swan Lake's Beast Moans Tops The Chart

The holiday hangover has finally passed and a new crop of albums has burst on to the charts to sweep out a group of records that had firm footholds over the past three months. These winds of change have blown a new album to #1, as Swan Lake's Beast Moans finally ascends to the top to dethrone Tom Waits' Orphans, which drops to #2. Shotgun And...
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Neko Case And Johnny Cash Austin City Limits Performances Coming On CD

New West Records has been releasing DVDs of performances from the long-running PBS music show Austin City Limits, and two of the best will be issued on CD on Jan. 9. The label has put out ACL DVDs from the likes of Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Dwight Yoakam, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, John Hiatt and Fats Domino, and the most popular...
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More Johnny Cash Material From The Vaults

Johnny Cash's popularity has only grown since his death three years ago, and two different labels will give fans more of the legend's music next month. Columbia/Legacy will issue a two-CD/single DVD edition of Johnny Cash At San Quentin on Nov. 14. It was originally released in 1969 as a 10-song LP, but the new version will include 13...
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Johnny Cash's American V Is Canadian, Too

It's appropriate that Johnny Cash's American V: A Hundred Highways will be released on the 220th anniversary of the U.S. on July 4, but there's a strong Canadian element to the album as well. The American/Lost Highway record features two timeless Canuck songs, Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read My Mind" and Ian Tyson's "Four...
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A Lot More Johnny Cash Music Coming Your Way

The last songs recorded by Johnny Cash before he passed away at age 71 in September 2003 will be released on July 4 on American V: A Hundred Highways. The American/Lost Highway album features two Cash originals, "I Came To Believe" and "Like The 309," the last song he ever wrote. Hank Williams, Bruce Springsteen and Rod...
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Johnny Cash Archives Reveal Unreleased Treasures

Johnny Cash's son, John Carter Cash, has stumbled upon a goldmine of music from his late father and will release some of the intimate recordings in a two-CD set titled Personal File in May. Cash spent time at his House of Cash office in Hendersonville, Tenn. in July 1973 recording stories and a variety of songs with little more than his...
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